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UPDATES IN 2010

2011 Dec 15th

A Career At Sea
- Added: Barge Express (Darwin), IMT Shipping (Hamburg), Karlander New Guinea Line, Offshore Marine Shippng  (Port Hedland WA), Princess Cruise Line (West Australia) and United Enterprises (Singapore). Now 835 entries  thanks to Brian Beverdge (FXL 59-61) and Roger Stuart (63-66)

- Added Jeddah to the list of Pilots. Now 61 entries thanks to David G Williams (49-51)

- Added 'Shipping Company Director' to the list of 'Job Titles' now 139, and 'Senior Vice President & Director of Cunard Line Ltd' both courtesy of John Hnabridge (55-57)

- Added 'Sworn Measurer & Weigher to the Home Ward Freight Conference, Kobe, Japan, to the list of unusual appointments - Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd (1946) thanks to Cap W G Lalor OBE (years not known)



Bibliography

Added:
- Wire Spicing by Dr R Scott Skirving (Years not known)
- Sword For Hire By Douglas V Duff (14-16) - his autobiograhy
- A Handbook of Weather, Currents & Ice For Seamen By Capt L A Brooke Smith  (1893-95)
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Wireless & Weather, An Aid To Navigation
by Capt L A Brooke Smith (1893-95)
-
I Captained The Big Ships by Commodore Robert G Thelwall (11-12)
- Without Incident by G. Drake  (22-24)
-
Raw Courage - The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of Four RAF Brothers in Arms by Simon Muggleton & Norman Franks




Club's Links to other "Old Boys'' Associations/Chat Groups

Added new links to
- TS Arethusda,
- Athel Tankers,
- the Australian MN,
- Australian Shipping Company,
- Avenue Shipping Company,
- Bank Line,
- Ben Line,
- Bibby Line,
 - Blue Funnel,
- Bolton Steamship Co.,
- Booker Line,
- Bowrings,
- Brocklebanks,
- BP Shipping Co,
- Buries Markes,
- Canadian Pacific Navigation Co,
- Christian Salvesen,
- Clan Line,
- Cunard,
- Donaldson Line,
- Elder & Fyffes,
- Ellerman Group,
- Furness Bermuda Line,
- Hull Independent MN Association,
- Geest Line,
- Glen Line,
- GSNC,
- Hain  Steamship Co.,
- Houlder Brothers,
- Indo-China Steam Navigation Company,
- Irish Shipping Co.,
- RMS Rangitki,
- SS Oriana

Club Members' Only Pages

Added the Minutes of the 2011 AGM and the Club's accounts for 2010.


Diary

Added
-  Announcement of the 50th Anniversary Reunion of 1962 QBs in Sept 2012.
2012 March 24th 7.30pm  Tribute To The Titanic at Liverpool Cathedral


Image Archive

Added new albums:
- Camp Aerial Views
- House Aerial Views
- House Inside
- House Outside
- House Yard
- Kelvin Block Aerial Views
- Kelvin Block Inside
- Kelvin Block Outside
- Kelvin Block Yard
- New Block Aerial Views
- 1946 Documents  CWP RN Entrance Exam
- 2010 BBQ in HQS Wellington
- Art Gallery: paintings of the Ship (Nile)
- Art Gallery - Smith (Conway & Indefatigable)

Added 122 new images - all viewable in Accesssions, giving 8,341 in total. We only need 659 more to reach 9,000 images so while you are lazing around over Christmas dig out your old photos and documents and email copies to me at alfie@hmsconway.org
or post them (with your return address) to 2, French Grass, Bradford on Avon, Wilts, BA15 1DX, UK.

Albums affected: 1800s, 2008 Australia, 2011 HQS Wellington, Art Shoesmith (after Conway), Band, Cutters, Dock, Figurehead, Gold Medals, QBs, Royal Visits, Rugby 1st, 2nd 3rd and Colts XVs + Misc, Sailing, Ship Mersey, Staff,Tour of Comnway Scenes Today, Tour of the Ship - Decks.

Years affected: 1800s, 1898, 1932, 33, 45, 46, 54, 55, 56, 57, 61, 62.

Republished updated 1938 Masting, 1946, Pinnace and the Captain's Gig Crews albums. Please let me know if you find broken links.

1970 Athletics team aded Heinz's name - thanks to Robin Bradford (67-70)



In Memoriam
-  Added version 16 of the Lost At Sea Memorial List
-  Added the Obituary for Mortimer and Glasson (1896-97)
-  Updated entry for D Roberts
-  Added Merchant Navy medal to list of 'Other Awards' - it was awarded to C M R Lloyd (about1956-7) in 2010 - thanks to Cmdr Ron Warwick (56-57)) for the information.
-  Added OBE to list of other awards, belated congratulations to Ian Evans (50-52)

Members of Staff

Created or updated:
-  Leslie Bold who served from 1946 to 1957 and still styles himself Conway's Chief Engineer. He was in the ship for the transits in 1941 and 1953.
- Wallace Blair, Instructor from circa 1860 to 1890.
- Mr Chipp, Second Offr 1882-1909.
- Mr Wyatt, member of the academic staff left May 1901.
- Rev McNeile, Padre from Sep 1900
- Corrected dates for Rev Latham (left Jul 1900)
- George (Tartar) Hunt, 1902.
- Mr Cullingworth left Jul 1903.
- Mr Grime, 1903
- Mr Bakeman 1903
- Mr A H Stuart joined Sep 1904
- Williams, Instructor joined Sep 1904
- Mr Marchant 1899 to 1934
- C J Beecheno 1889
- Mr Charles Light 1894
- John Milson left 1907.
- A new nickname for Wm Tozer - Maggot


Notables
Added an interesting link to the life and works of Dou'Without Incident' G. Drake, 'Without Incident' G. Drake, 'Without Incident' G. Drake, glas V Duff (14-16) Click here

Added a new Commodore of Cunard -
Commodore Robert G Thelwall (11-12)

OCs' Web Sites
2011 Oct 26th
Changed the image on the home page to announce Alec McNab's appointment as President of Athletics New Zealand.
2011 Oct 20th
Changed the image on the home page and updated the Diary enrties
2011 Sep 22nd

Bibliography
While researching for the Obituaries pages I came across an obituary for John Bulloch (42-44). He was one of the most highly-respected foreign and diplomatic correspondents, Middle East experts and authors of his era – from the early 1960s into the new millennium – the author of more than a dozen books, notably on Iraq, Lebanon, the Gulf and Kurdistan. He was also a driving force behind the launch of The Independent in 1986 and The Independent on Sunday four years later. I have included details of a number of his books.

Diary

Added details of the Scottish Branches Autumn Get-Together on Novermber 6th 2011. ALos put it on the Home Page



In Memoriam
This is now the page for all information about  OCs: obituaries, notables OCs, memorials, honour boards and awards etc. It therefore now includes:
-  The Obituaries pages which previously were in the Members Only pages and so inaccessible to family members and researchers.
-  The Notables pages.



Links
Added Britannia Naval College Association

Notables
Moved into the In Memoriam pages and removed from the home page index

Songs & Chants

Added a new page for the three Conway songs, sheet music for them and other Conway chants ands songs

Update (this page!)


Added links back to site updates for 2000, 1999 and 1998. Note that the visitor counter started in 2000.
2011 Aug 29th


Home Page

Added a teaser for the new issue of The Cadet and a reminder about the Dinner Dance/AGM



Club Members' Only Pages

The username and password have been changed. The new ones are on page 55 of the Autumn The Cadet.

I have added the new edition of The Cadet.

There is a new set of Obituaries pages which will contain the obits of OCs, members of staff and members of Conway's Management Committee. I have copies of all obits from back issues of The Cadet (1889 to 2011) and several from newspapers/web sites. Eventually I will obtain copies of all obits from back issues of the Club Newsletter. There are going to be someting like 12,000 of them so while I have started loading them it will take a while to load them all!


Shop
Updated prices and stock items for the Club shop. New PayPal link promised in the The Cadet has not yet been provided to me - sorry.
2011 Aug 25th



Home Page

At long last I've fixed the home page so the elements stay aligned (I hope) - I've been tearing my hair out over this for ages.

  Remember - you can adjust the sound using the loudspeaker symbol.



A Career At Sea


Added "
Senior Officer WWII PoW Camp" thanks to Lieutenant GFW Wilson DSO RN via Geoff Haskins,


Image Archive

There are now 8,230 images! 
The quickest way to see all 510 new images  is the Accessions albums  Click Here:

-  Roughly 70% of this upload are for the years 62-65 (thanks to Ian Stutt and Tosh Neal for their contributions).

-  About 30% of the new images are of the 150th (albums updated = Liverpool scenes, gala dinner main room, gala reception, 60-62 dinner,  55-57 dinner, socialising, hotel and cathedral. New album = Invitation Card) Click Here

-  There is part of a QB book from 1964 in the Documents section.  Here

-  Galitzine has been added to Today - How We Look Now.

-  Ships Company album updated with 1927 and sorted into year order.

-  New image of the Quarterdeck in Tour of the Ship - Decks.

-  New Swimming album. Click here.

-  New photo of the 62 cross strait swim in the Cross Strait Swim album.

-  Rugby Slop Chest now accessible.

-  New albums for the two sets of sports grounds at Rock Ferry.Click here.

-  Some new photos of the 2006 and 2008 London Summer BBQs

-  Some new photos of the 2009 visit to the House of Commons.

-  Some new photos of  the New Block today including a modern floor plan showing how the dorms have been split up.

-  Added photos of Shoesmith's painting of Conway used as a jigsaw.

-  A photo of the Sailors' Home site today.

-  A new Documents - Newspapers album for the 1962 vist of a famous flyer

-  Added a new album for the 2011 reunion of 1961 QBs - they obviously had a really good time. Click here.

-  Added a new album for Captain's Gig Crews - lots of gaps here so please send me any you have

-  I have split the single 1800s album into separate albums for the years 1859 to 1899 although not all years are covered. Can you help with some of the missing years? Click here

-  There is an all new album listing documents by year. Click here

-  Added a new Album in Art Galery for Shoesmith's later work. Click here

-  I have generally tidied up the Themes page. You'll see a number of new albums which are Coming Soon.



In Memoriam

Added a new section for the DSO awarded to OCs in WWI and WWII. Once again
a big vote of thanks to Lt Cdr Geoffrey Haskins RNZN Rtd (40-42) who actually did all the hard work.


Diary


Added booking details for the Club's 2011 AGM & Dinner Dance.

Provided contact details for the Western Australia Branch event on September 8th.

Added a new UK East Midlands Branch luncheon event on September 9th and their January 14th 2012 Post Christmas Party Night

Added UK North West Branch's events for 2012.

2011 July 8th

obits


A Career At Sea
Added Sussex Constabulary as our 54th Police Service. Thanks to Tim Raggett (Fxl 68-72)

Conway Club Links Page
Added a new page of Links to the “Old Boys” Associations for pre-sea training ships and schools, shipping companies and for MN Associations.


Conway Trust
Updated the list of Trustees

Diary

Updated the Lyme Regis Day pages

Added details of several new events and additional information about existing events.

Click here.

Notables
Added new entry for Commodore William Marshall CB DSO and Bar  RD RNR (1889-91)
2011 June 16th


Diary
Added details of the London BBQ on 5th July 2011 Click here.


Added menu for the Thursday evening gathering at the Lyme Regis Gig Club. Click here

Removed old events

In Memoriam - Lost At Sea
Added the loss at sea of Cadet William Vionett Godwin (1893-95)    Washed overboard from Star of France off Tristran da Cuhna aged 17 years 1897 May 22nd    (Thanks to Emanuel School magazine 1897 and family research)
2011 May 21st
A Career At Sea?

Added Pilot Port Kembla & Eden (NSW) - thanks to Bryan Hayes (53-55)

Club Members' Only Pages

Added the full acounts for 2009 and the outline acounts for 2008


Diary
Added Conway crew list to the Lyme Regis Gig race pages.
Come along it's fgoing to be a great day and don't forget to email Alfie if you are attending the day.


HMS Conway Trust


Updated the list of Trustees. If you haven't looked at this page please do so and consider subscribing or donating.

Image Archive
Added 206 new images so the archive now has 7,634 entries not counting the various moving image clips. The quickest way to see them all is the Accessions  album.

Added several new artists' work to the Art Gallery.
Click Here.

Added new theme albums for Anchor Recovery and the Cross Strait Swim. Click Here.

Added a new Reunion album for Hobart (more to follow). Click here.

Added a new term dinner album for the 150th. Click here.

Added a photo of the Club Dinner in 1929 Click Here

Added photos to year albums for 1800s, 1911, 15, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 36, 37, 39, 41, 43, 46, 47, 52, 53, 53 Tents, 54, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64 Opening, 65, 69, 74. Click here.

Added photos to the loss of the ship in 1953, albums 01, 03, 04, 05, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.
Click here.

Updated theme albums for Athletics, Breeches Buoy, Concerts & Plays, Crests, Cutters, Gigs, Gold Medals Winners, How We Look Now, Models Of The Ship, Plas newydd, Relics & Artefacts, Royal Visits, Rugby (all of them), Sailing, Ship Bangor, Ship Mersey, Ship Plas Newydd, Silver, Staff, Stationary, Conway Scenes Today.
Click Here.


In Memoriam - Lost At Sea

Added entry for Brian Lloyd (54-55) lost overboard from Booker Monguard on 16th December 1974. There are now 105 entries in the list and a further 12 being researched.

Relics & Artefacts


Added two new models of Conway giving 10 in total that we know of. The additions are the New Zealand Model and the Vietamese Model.

Added a note to the "Captain's Cabin Doors". Their provenance is now in terminal doubt.

Updated the Binnacles entry
2011 May 18th

Diary

Added details of the HMS Conway Calcutta Gig Cup race at Lyme Regis on 28th July 2011. OCs and OWs will re-enact the original race held in Calcutta in 1893. Six junior gig crews from the West Country will then inaugurate the annual race for the cup. Join us for the day on the world famous Cobb.
2011 Mar 31st A Career At Sea?

Added Chief Executive Swindon Town Football Club - thanks to Nick Watkins (64-68)

Updated the list of Shipping Companies to 830 entries. Time to aim for 900 - if your companies are not listed email me. New entries are:
Dealgan Shipping Co. Ltd thanks to Robert Hilton (54-56).
-   Hardie & Co thanks to the late Patteson and Abigail both (09-10)
-    Technip thanks to Alf Wynne-Jones (FXL 67-70) .
-  
Shoreside Support Ltd thanks to Michael Howorth (64-67).
-  
E D Sassoon & Co (Bombay) thanks to A H Hicks (21)
-   Campbell Maritime thanks to Donald (King Cam) Campbell (62-64) and Peter Johnson (62-65).


Diary

Added costs and details for the SW Branch's lunch at Kelly College. Book early as this always a sell out.

Added a new event in Scotland: a Spring Luncheon at Malmaison House Leith on Sunday 22nd May

In Memoriam - WWI

Lt Cdr Geoffrey Haskins RNZN Rtd (40-42) has updated details in the WWI Memorial and Honours Lists. I still love that Dead March.

In Memoriam - Lost At Sea

Added entry for Richard Martin Willcock (62-64) lost overboard from Chusal in 1966
2011 Mar 23rd
Diary

URGENT! The Vancouver Island Ancient Mariners' dinner is on March 23rd

28th July 2011 Lyme Regis - The inaugural gig race for the HMS Conway Calcutta Cup Click here for initial details.

Home Page

Added a link to the Shoesmith Society. Shoesmith was a cadet 06-08. See article in the Spring 2011 The Cadet.
(T
o view it online Club members can click here and then choose Members Only)

Image Archive

The Image Archive now has 7,328 entries

New album Club Dinner 1923. Click here

New album Tour of the Strait To Bangor Click here


In Memoriam - Lost At Sea

Added a completely new and dreadfully long list of OCs Lost at Sea in peacetime i.e. those who have no known grave. I would like to hear from you if you have any corrections or additions. Email me


In Memoriam - Other Conflicts

Added Waziristan 1922-23 thanks to Gp Capt S B Harris DFC AFC RAF (08-12). His DFC was awarded for action in the Waziristan operations


Notables

Added a photo and extra details about Captain Sir Malcolm Edge (47-49)

Conway & Titanic

Added details of William Russell-Smith (51-53) - grandson of Titanic's Captai

2011 Mar 10th
Club Members' Only Pages

You'll need the username and password published in the Spring 2011 The Cadet to access these new pages. The username and password will be changed with each new The Cadet. Inside the area are separate pages where you can obtain copies of:
-   Minutes of previous Club AGMs
-   Summaries of previous Annual Accounts
-   Previous editions of The Cadet
Further entries will be added to each section over time and I aim to include copies of all The Newsletters as well. I also intend to compile an Obituaries section using the entries from The Cadet/Newsletter

Image Archive


The Shoesmith album has been split into three:
-   Sketches he produced while he was a cadet.
Added five new images he had published in The Cadet while he was a cadet.
-   Conway images he produced after he left the ship
-   His general work as an artist.

The image archive now has 7,261 entries. Click Here

In Memoriam

Updated the details about several OCs who lost their lives in WWII

Added sound to the pages - Handel's Dead March from Saul

2011 Mar 7th
A Career At Sea?

Added 5th/14th Punjab Regt courtesy of Lt Col W F Charter MC (08-09), Bengal Infantry courtesy of Lt Col T Brodie (1872-74) Now have 195 armed services.

Added Commissioner of Assam to Other Notable Achievements courtesy of Lt Col T Brodie (1872-74

Conway Club Members Only Pages

The username and login to access these pages is in latest edition of The Cadet which has been posted to members. Conternt wil be updated over time.

Image Archive


At long last I have been able to reload the photo albums for 1967 and 1969. I have no idea why they wouldn't load before. Click here

In Memoriam - Other Awards

Added DCM, KCB, GCMG, KCMG, MM, MVO,

In Memoriam - Other Conflicts

Added Second Balkan War 1912-13
2011 Feb 7th

A Career At Sea?

Now 824 shipping companies: Deleted Harrison Line as it duplicated T&J Harrisons Ltd. Added Huawei Offshore (Peoples' Republic of China), Papua New Guinea Shipping Corporation and Swire Pacific Offshore. Thanks to Tim Clerc (69-71).

Added RN Seige Gun Service to the list of uniformed services but also had to move a few Police Force entries from the list leaving 193 entries.

Added new police Forces: City of London, Hertfordshire and Norfolk, thanks to John Bligh (65-69). Now 53 entries in the Emergency/Uniformed Services section.

Bibliography added:

Halifax Squadrons of World War II by Jon Lake. Mentions Group Captain Basil Robinson(28-29)

Man of Mafeking: The Bechuanaland Years of Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams (1884-1901) by Elizabeth Main. The story of Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams (1880-83).

The Maritime Art of Kenneth D. Shoesmith (06-07) by Glyn L. Evans. Describes the life and works of the artist Kenneth Shoesmith (06-07).

Club Pages

Updated the list of Branches and contacts.
Diary      
Updated events for 2011, several new events and changes to existing ones. Best to check everything in your area again.

Friends pages

Updated the Chapel Memorial pages with links to the In Memoriam pages so that the stories behind the names can be read - see In Memoriam below.

In Memoriam
We owe a huge vote of thanks to Lt Cdr Geoffrey Haskins RNZN Rtd (40-42) whose years of diligent research have brought to life the lists of names on our Honours Boards and Rolls of Honour.

He has provided  completely updated list of names to the WWI and WWII Honours Boards, the WWI and WWII Roll of Honouyr (Memorial) Boards and added new lists for "Other Conflicts" and "Other Awards" all with details of the individuals named.

Also revamped the laytout of this set of pages.

Notable OCs

Added the fascinating story of Edgar Claude Donovan, Croix de Guerre (1900-01)

OCs' "Personal" Web Sites

Corrected the link to 1967-70 Ken Huggins. Still 171 entries.

2011 Jan 18th

Teaser Club

Fixed the PayPal link - still not too late to join for this year.

Bibliography

Added new books:
Diving Stations By Peter Dornham AM The inspiring story of Captain George Hunt DSO DSC RN (30-32)
The Superyacht Owners Guide 2010 Editorial Consultant Michael Howorth (64-67)

Diary      

Added lots of new events for 2011 including the book launch of Diving Stations in Queensland in February.

Friends pages

Updated list of Trustees, Diary Dates and details of Annual Subscriptions, Donations and Bequests - click here

In Memoriam

Added link to Conway Chapel Old Conways' "In Memorium' Boards which gives details of how names can be added.

 

 

 

 

 
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