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Update History (most recent at the top)

Date
Update Details (click blue text to go to the page)
2013 Dec 19th Links to Shipping Co Associations
Added Harrison Line

2013 Dec 18th Notable Old Conways

Updated the link to Langans Brasserie for Bruce Langan.

2013 Dec 8th
Club Members Only Pages
Noted William Wood's and John Latka's retirements

2013 Dec 4th
Club Members Only Pages
Added AGM Minutes for 2013 and Club Accounts for 2012

Image Archive
Added advice published in The Cadet magazine in 1889 which is a precursor to the 1956 What Company Shall I Join? booklet (2nd Edition). That takes us to 8,650 images.

Still searching for a copy of the 1st Edition, if you have one.....


2013 Nov 22nd
Club Members Only Pages
Added the current list of OCs Still At Sea along with photos of their various vessels and links to ship descriptions/companies etc. The full current list be be kept up to date here and published once a year in the Autumn issue of The Cadet. The Spring issue will list changes since the previous Autumn.

Shop (Club Items)
Added details of the new Shop Manager

Archived 2012 Updates to thier own page - see foot of this page

2013 Nov 13th New photo for the home page of the ship aground.

2013 Nov 8th
A Career At Sea
(UK) Prisons' Ombudsman (thanks Vice Admiral Sir Peter Woodhead (54-57)

The Cadets' List
Added links for Davies, Day, Dickie (John & Peter), Douglas, Duncan-Smith, Dunlop, Ebbs, Everett, Fisher, Foster, Hall, Hayes, Haworth, Hewitt, Hill, Howorth, Huggins, Hughes, Hughes-Stanton, Hunt, Pari-Hughes, Marks, Marston, MacLeod, McNab, Mill-Irving, Mitchell, Monks, Piggott, Pizey, Pode, Preston, Purser, Puxley, Woodhead

Notables

Added a new shipping company Commodore (of the Bibby Line;: Lt Cdr  G H Harris RNR (1868-69). Years as Commodore not known but pre1929.



2013 Oct 23rd

Friends of HMS Conway
Updated the list of Trustees

Image Archive


Replaced the 1974 Paying Off Day album. It now includes 20 new, never seen before professionally taken photos arranged by Josh Garner and just discovered in his father's attic!


2013 Oct 22nd
Notables
Updated the entry for RFU scrum half Arthur Tudor Young (15-16).
Corrected the entries for OCs holding RN Flag Rank.

A Career At Sea
Added ADC to the G.O.C. Eastern Command, India - thanks to A T Young (15-16)

Image Archive


Added new theme albums for Ship @ Bangor and Ship @ PN
Added six new photos to year album 1949 Tranist to PN. Thanks to Josh Garner.


2013 Aug 20th Personailsed Conway Email Addresses
Added to the Home Page

2013 Aug 4th
Lost At Sea

Added missing Conway dates. Added more details about the loss of W Paynter (1884-86), including a painting of his ship.

A Career At Sea
- Shipping Cos now have 870 - added J Moss & Co thanks E Campbell (1900), Just & Co thanks J Martyn (04), Edinburgh & London Shipping Co thanks C Euman (1900), Thomson Dickie & Co thanks Charles Simson (00-02), CI Shipping (part of the B&C Group),  London Ship Managers, Trireme Vessel Management,  thanks Mark Wilding (68-70)

- Pilot Services - now 64 entries - added  Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia (thanks Roger Peters (63-66)) and Eden NSW.

- Nautical training establishments, now 87 - added HMS Ganges.

- Uniformed Services, now 197 - added Royal Flying Corps (RFC), Naval Wing and Montgomeryshire Battalion.

- Added Member, Worshipful Company of Joiners & Ceilers, Member, Worshipful Company of Shipwrights,
Member Honourable Company Of Master Mariners (and 1 Founder and 1 Master), Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology, Chairman of Devon IA (Ileostomy and Internal Pouch Support Group).
- Added President of Malaysian Nautical Institute (IKMAL), President of The Chartered Institute of Transport (Malaysia National Council, Director of Kuantan Port Authority and Chairman of Global Maritime Ventures  - thanks Suff Suffian (64-67).
- Added
Manager Cocoanut Estate


Notables
Updated Commodores of Shipping Companies - Captain Mountford (1881-83)  we promoted to Commodore from Feb 1918 and served to 1921.




2013 July 26th
Club's Annual Dinner Dance & AGM added to Home page

Image Archive


Added Renunion image albums for the 2008 Aus' do and the 2010 London BBQ.

Added "Document" album for Advertisments.

At several "Art Gallery" albums up to and including Harland, plus 2 albums for Shoesmith.

Also updated The Shoesmith Society pages (as I'm tier Hon Sec!) with the above links.


2013 July 24th
Various corrections to the Notables pages

2013 July 21st
 Added obituary for Malcolm Bernard Haddon Watts (44-46)

2013 July 16th
Updated the Home Page with the announcement of the death of the Marquis.

2014 July 15th
1964 New Chums
Added details of the proposed 50th anniversary reunion in 2014 of 1964 New Chums. Definately on for the Summer Term chums.  Easter and Christmas terms can be added if volunteers offer to organise their terms attendance.

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Friends Of HMS Conway

The Friends have recently completed two new Projects:
1.  The Names Project which provides a list of the names of all Old Conways.
2.  The Ashes At Sea Project which provides guidance on and locations for
      having ashes scattered at sea.
The Lost At Sea Project has also been updated to v24. Click here

Image Archive

Added image albums for the years 1957 to 1974 including demolition of the Camp and building the New Block.

Added document albums for the years 1957 to 1974.

At last all Year photos albums and all Document albums buy Year are now back online. Thats 90 hours of work so far but at least I'm nearly half way through. "Just' all the theme and Reunion albums to do now.



2013 July 9th

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Home Page

Added details of the Annual Memorial Service for those Conways who have crossed the bar in the previous 12 months.

Image Archive

Added image albums for the years 1955 to 1956 Including anew album of the Ship Breakers at work  and nine new images of the wreck burning
Added document albums for the years 1953 to 1956.
Added Prospectus album for 1954 and 1956
Added 3 Rules & Regulations albums for 1954
Added Newspaper albums for 1954, 1955 and 1956

2013 June 30th
Image Archive
A 13 hour day.

Added image albums for the years 1940 to 1954.

Added the full set of the photos of the loss of the ship. Around 260 images of the day and 72 newspaper cuttings. Because I've added a lot of new photos I've split the old Total Constructive Loss album into three albums, Falling Tide, Rising Tide, Total Constructive Loss.

Added document albums for the years 1940 to 1954.

Added Document Theme Albums for Deck Plans, Plays & Concerts, Prospectuses (to 54), 1950 Club Dinner

2013 June 29
Image Archive
Another 14 hour day. Added image albums for the years 1890s, 1890, 1891, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900 to 1939.

Added document albums for the years 1890, 1894, 1895, 1897, 1901 to 1939.

2013 June 25th
Image Archive
Added and linked image albums for the years1800s, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1866,  1870, 1873, 1876, 1882, 1886, 1887, 1962, 1954 Figurehead Masting, 1954 Tents, 196? Breeches Buoy.

Added and linked documents albums for the years 1800s, 1828 original Hull Section plans, 1840 Hull Section plan, 1859, 1861, 1876, 1880s, 1880,

2013 Jun 24th
Home Page
Added a late reminder about the London BBQ on July 4th.

Updated to give separate links to the Diary (of future events) and the images for events (dinners, reunions, branch meetings etc., already held.


Image Archive
At long last I have found a replacement host for the Image Archive. I've chosen Flickr because it allows the whole archive to be uploaded free of charge. It is not as smart as the previous host but beggars can't be choosers.  I have therefore reinstated the Image Archive links pages and will gradually work my way though reloading all the albums. It will take me a long time as there are several hundred albumns and it's took me ten hours to load 30 albums yesterday.

The first sets reloaded are all the 150th Anniversary photos, the Vancouver Reunion, the 2007 London BBQ and the 60th Anniversary of the Loss of the Ship Weekend - Click here.

I have also added 221 new photos taking the overall total to 8,598. Click Assessions. There are several photos from 1956 of the shipbreakers at work and several new ones of the wreck burning.

With other photos waiting to be edited we are creeping towards 9,000. If you still haven't sent me yours - email me.

Members Only Pages
My second peice of good news is that after four hours of struggle the Club's Members' Only Pages are back online. The login is a bit easier - only a password required now. It is the one published on page 61 of The Cadet issue 63 Spring 2012. Note the the last letter is now lower case.



2013 Apr 15th

abc
Updated the  home page with details of the Memorial Weekend


Diary
-  Updated entries - thanks to Ken Huggins who kindly looks after those pages.

Members Only Pages & Image Archive
I can only apologise again. I've still not had time to sort these out and get them reloaded. Too may competeing pressures including work. I am working on them but having problems finding suitable solutions that can cope with all 9,000 of our images and several hundred albums - all at no cost!

2013 Jan 27th

Bibliography


Accessions:
-  Anglesey and Lleyn Shipwrecks by Ian Skidmore
-  The Devil's Cauldron by Captain Michael 'Con' Lloyd (56-58)

-  From Supermarine Spitfire To Douglas DC-10 - A lifetime Of Flight
by Ronald Williams (48-50)
-  Nautical Training Ships, An Illustrated History by Phil Carradice
-  The Port of Silloth 1859 - 2009 by Captain Chris Puxley (61-63)
So You Want To Go To Sea? by Captain Michael 'Con' Lloyd (56-58) FREE!
-  Stanby Vessels by Captain Michael 'Con' Lloyd (56-58)

Link to an online copy of So Long To Learn - A Personal Memoir
by Bill Trowbridge OBE (46-48)

Added updated links for
TS Mt Edgcumbe: Training Ship For Homeless & Destitute Boys by Bruce Hunt
http://www.brucehunt.co.uk/Training%20Ship%20Mount%20Edgcumbe.html
http://www.brucehunt.co.uk/page%205/book%20Edgcumbe.html

Added cover images for:

-  After Alamein by Paul Kingsford (staff) - found it at last.
-  Before The Box Boats by Captain A W Kinghorn (49-51)

-  New Chum by John Masefield (1891-94).
-  The Queens & I by Commodore G. Marr (22-24).



A Career At Sea?


The list of shipping companies now has 863 entries after adding:
-  Donnie (King cam) Campbell's (62-64) time with Bulk Acid Shipping, Chapman & Willan (Chatty Chapmans), MAP Tankers, Protchard-Gordon Tankers and Terkol Tankers.
-  Sean Minogue's
(57-59) time with Durban Lines and Smith's Coasters.
-  Mark Wilding's (68-70) time with Ecuadorian Line.
-  Paul Warren's (64-67) time with Stirling Shipping.
-  Colin Jone's (49-51) time with
Anchor Shipping Company of Nelson (N.Z), Chin Seng Hong (Thailand),Japan Line, Lanena Shipping Co.(H.K.), Sanko Steamship, Shun Cheung Steam Navigation Co.( H.K.) and Windjammer Cruises


Added Port Rashid to list of Pilots (now 62) thanks to Nigel Haydn-Evans (52-54)

Added Nautical Surveyor  to the list of (now) 140 types of job OCs have done.

Added Member The Salvage Association to the list of unusual acheivements.

Achievements list now includes
-  President The Institute of South African Shipbrokers, Chairman The South African Branch of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers and Vice President of The Association of Ships Agents and Brokers of South Africa. All thanks to Sean Minogue (57-59)
Admiral of the Enterprise Class Association (thanks
to Robin Gumbrell (52-54)


Conway Club - Links to Naval Associations

Added a link to the Submariners Association giving 79 entries.


Friends - Projects

The "Names Project" to produce an authoritative list of the names and dates of all Conway cadets is compete and has 10,200 entries. The list wil be published here shortly.

A new "RMYC" page has been describing the Conway Training Room and the David Nutman Trophy

In Memorium - Lost At Sea

Updated info about the death of Charles Erskine Simson (00-02) provided by his family.


OCs' Personal Web Sites

Added John Nobles (62-64)


Notable Old Conways - Commodores of Shipping Companies

Booth Steamship company - Commodore Jackson Whayman CBE DSC RD RNR (19-21)




 
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