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Sea & Shore
On
the
bridge
of mighty liners, or the grey clad men'o
war,
On the poop of Island
schooners, Bare poled in the cyclones roar
In
tramps and yachts and tanker-craft, And the ships off to explore,
You'll find the men you knew as boys, In the Mizzen, Main or Fore.
In
the Celebes and Siam, In the Caribbean cays,
On
the Niger and Euphrates, Praying God for a fine
breeze,
In
the role of chief
surveyor, or the Guardian of the
Trees,
You'll meet again the cutter's crew, Whose rowlock's you tried to seize.
On
the fringe of every Ocean, On the frontiers of new lands,
They
are "Baas", or "Chief" or "Tuan", Controlling the sweating
clans,
In
the mines and
on the ranches, In HQ's and Ops and Plans,
You'll meet the chaps you raced aloft, When the pipe called "Main-top hands".
On
the bridge of sleek destroyers, And the freighters deep and long,
With
the
Mounties on the prairies, Singing a maritime
song,
In the last foresaken rearguard, Where only the best belong,
You'll find the comrades whose motto, Says "Quit ye like men, be strong".
Commander WCA Robinson RNR (Ret'd) Conway (1911-13).
The following articles describe OCs' service around the world at sea and ashore
OCs LOST AT SEA
OCs & PLACES
List of Uniformed Services
and Unit - see below
List of Emergency Services - see below
OCs also turned their hands to... - see below
Other Notable Achievements - see below
ON THE STOCKS:
OCs & The RAN
OCs & The RNZN
OCs & The Irrawaddy Flotilla Company (Burma) (being drafted)
OCs & The Lake Steamer Service (East Africa)
OCs & Chinese Maritime Customs (Shanghai)
OCs & The Nigerian Marine
WWI - OCs & The Zeebrugge Raid at least 7 OCs were involved
WWII - OCs & The Battle of the Atlantic
WWII - OCs & The Arctic Convoys
Conway
cadets have served in the following shipping lines, navies and maritime
organisations around the world.
In
the late 1800s, most sailing vessels were not part of big
shipping companies but owned by individuals (often sea captains) with
just one or two vessels. The list of these individual sailing vessels in
old The Cadet magazines are too
numerous to mention here.
For more information on many of these companies click here. For images of funnels and house flags Click here.
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Worcesters, Pangbournes, Bothas et al beat this:
- A Nicholls & Co
- A W Rainford
- Aberdeen & Comonwealth Line
- Abram Lyle & Sons
- Abu Dhabi Defence Force (Marine Section)
- Abu Dhabi National
Tanker Co
- Adela SS Co
- Adelaide Steamship
Co
- African Steamship Line (Co)
- Aitken Lilburn & Co
- Al- Rafic Salvage & Towage (Kuwait)
- Alcan Bermuda
Shipping Ltd
- Alfred Booth & Co
- Alfred Holt &
Co
- Alcan Shipping
(Montreal)
- Alexander & Co
- All American Cables & Radio Inc (cable ships)
- All Red Line (San Francisco)
- Allen & Black (Sunderland)
- Ambra Management
- American Hawaiian Co
- American Overseas Tanker Corp.
- American President
Lines
- Amoy Revenue Service Launch Sqn
- Anchor Line
- Anchor Shipping Company of Nelson (N.Z.)
- Andrew Weir Shipping
- Andrew Youle & Co
- Angfartygs A/B Tirfing (Gothenburg, Sweden)
- Anglo American
Oil Co
- Anglo Saxon Petroleum
Co
- ANL Alltrans
- Anthony & Bainbridge (Newcastle)
- Arab Maritime Petroleum Transport Company
- Aran Ferries
- Argentina State Shipping Co
- Argentinian Navy
- Argyle Shipping Co (Bermuda)
- Arklow Shipping
- Arya National Shipping Company (Iran)
- Asiatic Steam
Navigation Co
(Singapore)
- ASP Ship Management
Group
- Associated Container Transportation(ACT)
- Associated HUmber Lines
- Associated Steamships
(Australia)
- Astoria Shipping Co
- Athell Line / Tankers
- Atlantic Container Line (ACL)
- Atlantic Steam
Navigation Co
- Atlantic Transport Line
- Atlantic Transport Service Company
- Austasia Line
(Singapore)
- Australia National
Line
- Australian Steam Ship Company
- Australian Territory Liner Services (ATLS)
- Australian United Steam Navigation Co
- Balfour, Williamson & Co
- Baltic Shipping
Co
- Bank Line
- Barge Express (Darwin)
- Baron Line
- Batavian Petroleum Maatschippi
- BeauDril Icebreakers (Canada)
- Beaver Line
(Canada)
- Bedford Institute of Oceongraphy (USA)
- Belfast Steam Shipping Co
- Bell & Co
- Bell Line NV (Dublin)
- Ben Line
- Bengal Coal Co
- Bethel Gwyn & Co
- Berthing Master
(Port Rashid, Dubai)
- Beynon & Co
- BHP Ltd
- Bibby Line
- Bigland Brown & Co
- Black & Black SS Co
- Black Moore & Co
- Black Star (Ghana)
- Blue Anchor Line
- Blue Circle Cement Shipping Co
- Blue Funnel Line
- Blue Star Line
- Blystad Shipping (Norway)
- Bohannen Line (Panama)
- Bolton Steamship Co
- Bombay & Persian Steam Navigation Co
- Booker Line
- Booth Line / Booth Steamship C
- Border Tankers
- Bowater Steamship Company
- BP Exploration
- BP Tanker Co
- Branch Line
- Brett & Beaufroy
- Bridge Line
- Bristol Channel Steamers
- Bristol City Line
- Bristol
Steam Navigation Co
- Britain Steamship
Co Ltd (later Watts & Watts)
- British African Company
- British Antarctic Survey
- British & Argentine Steam Navigation Co
- British & Burma Steam Navigation Co
- British &
Commonwealth Line
- British & Eastern
Shipping Co
- British Channel
Island Ferrie
- British Columbia
Ferries
- British Columbia Salvage Association
- British East Africa(n) Lake Service
- British Phosphate Commissioners
- British India
Steam Navigation Company
- British Missionery Society
- British Molasses Co
- British Rail Hovercraft Ltd (Seaspeed)
- British Rail Marine Dept
- British Rail
South West
- British Rhine Flotilla (Koln)
- British Shipowners
Company
- British Steamship
Co
- British Tanker
Co Ltd
- British Underwater Engineering
- British Yukon Navigation Co
- Britship (IOM)
Ltd
- Brocklebank Line
- Broderson & Broy
- Broken Hill Line Pty (NSW)
- Brook line
- Brookes Bell
& Co
- Bryon Steamship Co
- BT Marine
- BU. Marine
- Bucknalls Steam Ship Co
- Bulk Acid Shipping
- Bullard King
- Buries
Marks
- Burma Government Marine
- Burmah Oil Co.(Tankers)
Ltd
- Burnet Steamship Co
- Burns Steamship Co
- Burns Philp
(Australia) Pty Ltd
- Buries Markes
- Butterfield &
Swires China Steam Navigation Co
- Byron SS Co
- C G Dunn & Co (Liverpool)
- C Y Tung Line
- Cable & Wireless
- Cairn Line
- Caladonian MacBraynes
- Calcutta River Survey Service
- Caltex Tankers
- Campbell Findlay & Co (Greenock)
- Campbell Maritime Ltd
- Canada Steamship Lines (Montreal)
- Canadian British Aluminum Co
- Canadian Cable Co
- Canadian Coast
Guard Service
- Canadian Fisheries Protection Service
- Canadian Government Merchant Marine
- Canadian Hydrographic Service
- Canadian Marine Drilling Co
- Canadian National Steamships Ltd
- Canadian Northern (Railways) Steamships Ltd
- Canadian Pacific Railroads (Coastal Fleet) / Canadian Pacific Ferries
- Canadian Pacific
Steamship Co
- Canadian (Canada?) Steamship
Co
- Canterbury Steam Ship Co
- Canton River Service
- Caribean Molasses
Co.
- Caribbean Shipping (Texas)
- Carisbrooke Shipping
- Carmichael & Co (Glasgow)
- Carmichaels & Stewart
- Cayzar Irvine
- Ceina Mutual SS Co
- Celtic Tankers
- Central American Shipping Co
- Central Shipping (Manila)
- Ceol Mor Shipping
- Ceres Hellenic Shipping (Piraeus)
- Cermar Shipping,
Dublin
- Ceylon Imperial Lighthouse Service
- Ceylon Shipping Co
- Ceylon Steamship Co
- Chadwick, Wainwright & Co
- Chagargeur-Delmar
(France)
- Chambers & Co
- Chandris Tankers
- Chapman & Willan (Chatty Chapmans)
- Chapman & Flint (New York)
- Charente Shipping Company
- Charleton, McAllum & Co
- Charles
Hills
- Charles Wille
(Cardiff)
- Charlton McCullum & Co
- Chesapeake and Ohio Steamship Co
- Chevron Tankship
(UK)
- Chin Seng Hong (Thailand)
- China Line
- China Coast Service (Tsong, Lim Chin)
- China/Chinese Maritime Customs
- China Mutual Steam Navigation Co
- China Navigation
Company
- China Ocean Shipping (HK) Ltd
- Chine Shipping Co
- Chinese Customs Maritime Service
- Chinook Navigation Co
- CI Shipping (part of the B&C Group)
- City Line
- City & Hall Line
- City of Cork Steamship Co
- City of Dublin Steam Navigation Co
- Clan Line Steamers
- Claude Ferrier & Sons
- Clyde Marine
- Coast Line
- Cocos & Freemantle Cable Co
- Coldwell Line
(Hong Kong)
- Colonial Oil
- Colonial Sugar
Refining Co. of Sydney
- Columbus Line
- Comben, Longstaff
& Co
- Combs Marshall & Co
- Commercial Cable
Co
- Commissioners of Irish Lights
- Commodore Shipping (Guernsey)
- Common Brothers
- Commonwealth & Dominion Line
- Commonwealth Government Line
- Commonwealth
Lighthouse Service
- Comprehensive Shipping
- Constantine Line
- Continental Line
- Conway Line (NI) (founder
of)
- Cook Strait Ferries
(NZ)
- Coombes Marshal & Co (Middlesborough)
- Corfields
- Corsar (Liverpool)
- Cork-Swansea
Ferries
- Cory & Co
- Cotesworth Lyne & Co (Liverpool)
- Counties SS Co
- County Line
- Court Line
- Cowasjee Line
(Karachi)
- Crawford
and Rowat Line (Canada)
- Crawley Tugs
(Los Angeles)
- Cross Channel Steamers Ltd
- Crow, Rudolph & Co
- Crusader Shipping
Co
- Cuban Navy (1909)
- Cunard Cargo Shipping
- Cunard Steam
Ship Co
- Currie Line
- D & E Shipping
- Dalgleish & Co
- Dalraida Steam
Packet Company (founder of)
- De Wolf & Son (Liverpool)
- Dealgan Shipping Co. Ltd
- Delta Shipping (Gothenburg)
- Dene Shipping Company
- Denholm (Bermuda)
- Denholme SS Co
- Dennison's Coasters (Kirkwall)
- Department of Agriculture Fisheries & Food (England)
- Department of Energy Mines & Resources, Canada
- Devitt Moore & Co
- Doha Marine Services
- Dominion Lines
- Don Line
- Donald Kennedy
- Donaldson Line
- Donaldson, Rose & Co (Aberdeen)
- Doure & Co
- Douglas SS Co
- Dowgate Steamship Co
- Ducal Line
- Dundalk Port
Authority
- Dundee Clipper Line
- Durban Lines
- E Stephens & Co
- E C Friend & Co
- E D Sassoon & Co (Bombay)
- E P & W Roberts (Liverpool)
- E R Peel & Co
- E T Gourlay (Sunderland)
- Eagle Container
Line (ECL Contship)
- Eagle Oil
Shipping
Co
- Eagle Tugs (Mombasa)
- East & West Steamship Co
- East African Railways & Harbours (Marine Branch)
- East India Telegraph Company
- Eastbound Line
- Eastern Telegraph Co (Malta)
- Eastern & Australian SS Co
- Ecuadorian Line
- Edinburgh & London Shipping Co
- Edmondson & Rose & Co
- Egyptian Mail SS Co
- Elder Dempster
Lines
- Elders &
Fyffes Line
- Elderslie Steam Ship Co
- Egyptian Mail Steamship Co
- Egyptian Navy
- Ellerman Line
- Ellerman & Bucknell Shipping
- Ellerman Associated Line
- Ellerman Hall
Line
- Ellerman Wilson
Line
- Energy Mines & Resources (Canada)
- Engen Oil
- Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd
- Eureka Shipping (Piraeus)
- European Marine Contractors
- Everett Orient Line
- Everett Steamship Co (Calcutta)
- Evergreen Line
- F Laeisz (Hamburg)
- F C Street (London)
- F C Strick &
Co Ltd
- F.T.Everard
- Falkland Islands Maritime Service
- Fao Bar Dredging Service (Iraq)
- Far East Hydrofoil Co. Ltd (Hong Kong)
- Farracoe Shipping Co
- Farrell Lines (USA)
- Fast Cat Ferries Ltd (NZ)
- Federal Commerce and Navigation (Montreal)
- Federal Offshore Services, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
- Federal Line
- Federal Steam
Navigation Company
- Fernie Brothers
- Govenor' of Fiji's Yacht
- Finanglia Ferries
- Finlay & Co
- Fisher & Sprout
- Fisheries & Oceans (Canada)
- Fleet Air Arm
- Flying P Line, (Gustaf Erikson, Mariehamn)
- Forth Tankers
- Frank Krick & Co (India)
- Foss Shipping
- Freeport Cruise Lines, Grand Bahama)
- Freight Express
Seacon
- French Navy
- Furness Ship Management
- Furness Withy & Co Ltd
- Fyffes Group
- G Duncan & Co
- G Heyn & Sons
- G Marshall & Co
- G M Steves & Co
- George S Milne & Co (sailing ships)
- G Thompson & Co
- Gardner & Co
- Gardline Shipping
- Garmouth
- Gas Pac Shipping Co (Tonga)
- Geest Line
- Gellaty, Hanker & Co
- General Maritime S.A. (Casablanca)
- General Steam Navigation Co
- George Gibson & Co (ofLeith)
- George Horsley & Co (West Hartlepool)
- George Nisbett & Co
- General Steam Navigation Co
- Gibraltar Contraband Service
- Gibson & Clarke (Glasgow)
- Gillison & Chadwick (Liverpool)
- Glasgow Line
- Glen & Shire
Line
- Global Chemical Tankers (Torshavn, Faroe Islands)
- Global Marine Inc (Los Angeles)
- Globtik Tankers
- Glyn & Sons
- Glynn Line
- Gold Star Line (Hong Kong)
- Golden Bay Cement Company (NZ)
- Golden Line (Singapore)
- Goodyear & Co
- Government Telegraph Service
- Governmemnt Lake Service, BEA
- Governmemnt of Tonga Marine Service
- Gow Harrrison & Co
- GPO Cable Ships
- Gracie, Beazley & Co
- Gray McKenzie
(Bahrein and Dubai)
- Great Western Railway's Ferry Service
- Great
White Fleet
- Green R Line (South Africa)
- Griffin
Shipping (Coldwells Hong Kong)
- Gulf East Shipping
- Gulf Line
- Gulf Oil
- Gulf Steamships
- Guinea Gulf Line
- Gustaf Erikson
Line
- Guthrie & Co (London)
- Gypsum Transport Co
- H A S Bond (New Zealand)
- HM Cableship
Service
- HM Coastguard
- HM Telegraph Ships
- H W Dillon & Co
- Hadden & Co (Singapore)
- Hadley Shipping
Co
- Hain Steamship
Company
- Haldin & Phillips
- Hall Line
- Hansa Line
- Hardie & Co
- Hargreaves, Ferguson & Jackson
- Hargrove & Helen (Liverpool)
- Harley Mullion
(Hong Kong)
- Harris & Dixon (London)
- Harrison Crossfield Medal (Sumatra)
- Harrowing & Co (Whitby)
- Haws & Co
- Hayes Shipping
- Hayton & Simpson
- Head Line
- Head-Donaldson Line (Belfast)
- Headline Shipping
- Hebridean International Cruises
- Hector Whaling Co
- Hedlams (Whity)
- Hella Carribean Steamship Company
- Henderson Line
- Henry F Watt
- Heron & Dunn (Liverpool)s
- Hogarth &
Son
- Holland Africa Line
- Holm & Co Shipping (New Zealand)
- Holyhead And
Kingstown Royal Mail Service
- Hong Kong & Borneo Shipping Co
- Hong Kong & Japan Line
- Hong Kong Canton River Steamers
- Hong Kong Macau
Hydrofoil Co
- Hong Kong Marine Police
- Hoogly River Survey Service
- Horsley & Co
- Houlder Brothers
- Houston Line
- HoverKaz inc
- Hovertravel Ltd
- Howard Smith Line (Sydney, Australia)
- Huawei Offshore (Pepoles' Republic of China)
- Hudson Steam
Navigation Company
- Hugh Roberts
and Sons (Newcastle)
- Hugli River Survey Steamers
- Hugo Stinnes & Co
- Hull Gates Shipping Co
- Hunting & Son
- IF Co
- IFR Services
- Illwara & South Coast SS Co
- Imperial & International Communications Ltd
- Imperial Oil Ltd
- IMT Shipping (Hamburg)
- India Office Shipping
- Indian General Navigation Company
- Indo Burma Petroleum Co
- Indo China Steam
Navigation Co
- Inland Waterway Transport Co
- Inspector of Irish Lights
- Interisland Line
(NZ)
- International Chartering plc
- International Marine Services, Dubai. (Insh'allah Marine)
- International Maritime Transport
- International Petroleum Ltd
- Inver Line
- Iranian Navy
- Iraq Petroleum Company
- Iredale & Porter
- Irish Lights Steam Ship Company
- Irish Sea Ferry Company
- Irish Shipping Co
- Irrawaddy Flotilla Co (Rangoon)
- Irvine & Johnson Trawlers (Cape Town)
- Isbrandtson
Line
- Islamic Republic Of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL)Teheran
- Isle Of Man Coastal Service
- Isle Of Man Steam
Packet Co
- Isle Of Wight
Ferries
- Isles of Scilly Steamship Co
- Ismay, Imrie & Co
- Ivanavire
- Ivanovic & Co Ltd
- J Boyd
- J Edgar & Co
- J Hardie & Co
- J Hardy & Co
- J Herron & Co
- J Houston & Co
- J Howard & Co
- J Joyce & Co
- J Latter Shipping Co
- J Moss & Co
- J Mulhall
- J Nourse & Co
- J Willis & Co
- J Windrup & Co
- J H Welsford & Co
- J P Corrie & Co
- J. P. Knight
- J S Fry & Co
- J T Rennie & Son
- Jamaica Banana Producers
- Jamaican Defence Force Coast
Guard
- James Chambers & Co
- James Cornfoot & Co
- James Fisher
& Son
- James Nourse
Ltd
- James Poole & Co
- Japan Line
- Jardine Matheson
- Jasmin Marine (Yarmouth)
- Jebsons International
- Jessmar Shipping (Great Yarmouth)
- John Cook & Son (Aberdeen)
- John Edgar & Co
- John Glynn & Sons
- John Joyce & Co
- John Stewart & Co
- Johnson Line
- Jones Brothers & Co (Cardiff)
- Jordain Shipping
- Joseph Steel & Co (New York)
- Joyce & Co
- Jubilee Sailing Trust
- Just & Co
- K Steamship Co
- Kapal
- Karlander New Guinea Line
- Karran & Co
- Kaye Shipping Co
- Kayes Tankers
- Kellock & Co
- Kenny & Mahon
- Kent Line (St Johns, New Brunswick(
- Kenya & Uganda Railway Marine
- Kerr Steamship
Company (Canada)
- Khedivian Mail Line
- King Line
- Kingston Steam
Trawling
- KKK Line
- Klondyke Shipping
- Klyne Tugs
- Koninkijke Paketvaart Maate
- Kristian Jebson
(Bergen)
- Kuwait Oil Tanker
Co
- Kuwait Shipping Line Co
- Lago Oil Transport Co (Aruba)
- Lagos Shipping Co
- Lake Tankers (Venezuela)
- Lake Victoria Steamer Service
- Lanena Shipping Co. (Hong Kong)
- Lancashire Shipping Co
- Lancaster Line
- Landing & Shipping Co (Mombasa)
- Lane McAndrew & Co
- Lang & Fulton
- Lam Hai Steamship Co
- Lamport &
Holt Line
- Lancaster Shipping Co
- Lane & Son
- Lang & Fuller
- Larrinaga Steamship Co
- Law Line
- Lees Trawlers
- Leith Salvage & Towing Co
- Lewis Davis & Co
- Leyland Line
- Libyan Navy
- Lion Shipping
(Singapore)
- Liverpool & Glasgow Salvage Association
- Liverpool &
North Wales Steamship Company
- Liverpool Towing Co
- Lloyds Royal Belge Line
- Loch Line (Glasgow)
- Lockett &
Wilson
- London & North Eastern Railway (Ferries)
- London & North Western Railway (Ferries)
- London &
Overseas Freighters
- London Line
- London Gate Line
- London Marine Steamship Co
- London Ship Managers
- Lord Line (Belfast)
- Louis Davies & Co
- Low Lin
- Lund & Co
- Lykes Line
- Lyle Shipping Co (Glasgow)
- Lyne & Co
- MacAndrews & Co
- MacDiarmid & Greenshield
- Mackinnon Mackenzie
- MacLey & MacIntyre Ltd
- MacVicar, Marshall & Co
- McCay Shipping
(Canada)
- McCowen &
Cross
- McIlwreath & McEachan
- McGregor Gow & Co
- McVicar Marshall & Co
- Maersk Co
- Maesk Supply Service
- Maindy Line
- Mainland Market Deliveries
- Mairsh Supply
Service (Copenhagen)
- Malasian Navy
- Malaysian International
Shipping Corporation
- Manchester Liners
- Manchester Ship
Canal Company
- Mansfield & Co (Penang)
- Manx Line
- MAP Tankers
- March Shipping (Montreal)
- Marconi Co
- Marico Marine New Zealand Ltd
- Marine Exploration
Ltd
- Marine Survey
Dept, Cayman Islands
- Marine Survey of India
- Maritime
Fruit Carriers
- Maritime Services
Board of NSW
- Marrs (Hull)
- Mavroleon & Co
- McDolmseys Shipping Co
- McIlwreth & McEachan
- McDomsley Shipping Co
- Melonesia Co ltd
- Meridian Marine
Management
- Merlion Shipping
Agency (Singapore)
- Meteorological Office (UK) Weather Ships
- Metson Marine
- Michalinos& Sons
- Mitchells of
Woolwich
- Milton Marine
Management
- Milton Stuart Shipping Co
- Ministry of Defence (UK)
- Mitchell Stevens & Co
- Mitsui OK Line
- Mobil Shipping Co
- Mogul Line
- Moller & Co (Shanghai)
- Monroe Brothers ( Liverpool)
- Montgomery Line
- Montreal Shipping Co
- Moore-McCormick
Lines
- Morgan & Cadogan
- Moss Line
- Moss Hutchison
Line
- Mount SS Co (London)
- Muhne Drilling
- Mullions (Mullisons?) (Hong Kong)
- Mungo Cambells
- Nash Dredging/Van Hattum en Blankevoort b.v.
- Natal Line
- National Bulk Carriers
- Natural
Environment Research Council Fleet
- National Sea
Rescue Institute (South Africa)
- Nauru Pacific Lines (Nauru)
- Nautical Shipping Co
- Nautilus Steam Navigation Co
- Navigation & Coal Trading Co
-
Nederlandsche Stoomvaart
Maatschappij Oceaan (NMSO)
- Nelson Line
- Neptune Orient
- Neptune
Ship Mgt
- Nerdrum Shipping
- New Era Shipping Co
- New Guinea Australia Line
- New Zealand Shipping
Co
- New Zealand Sea Products Export Ltd
- Newcastle Shipping Federation
- Newgate Shipping
- Nicholson & McGill
- Nielsen Bulk Carriers
- Nigeria Marine
- Nigerian Customs Service
- Nigerian National
Line
- Nigerian Naval Defence Force
- Nigerian Port
Authority
- Noble Denton
- Nomis Shipping Company
- Norships Ocean Carriers
- North Shipping
Co
- North Star Shipping
- North Thames Gas Board (sailing flatties)
- Northern Compnay
- Northern Marine
- Northern Pacific Steamship Co
- Northern Shipping
NZ
- Norton, McGaw & Co
- Northumberland
Ferries (Canada)
- Norway Cruises
- NYK Line - Nippon Yusen Kaisha
- Nyasaland Govt Marine Service
- Nyasaland Railway Lake Service
- New Zealand Rail Ferries
- Northland Navigation Co
- OIL Ltd
- Ocean Cruise
Lines
- Ocean Fleets
- Ocean Inchcape
- Ocean Line
- Ocean Tramping
Co Ltd (Hong Kong)
- Ocean Transport
& Trading
- Ocean Weather Service
- Offshore Marine Shippng (Port Hedland WA)
- Offshore Maritime Supply Ltd (Australia)
- Offshore Supply Association
- Oregon Steamship Co
- Orient Line
- Orient Overseas
Line
- Orkney Island
Shipping Co
- OT Africa Line
- Outward Bound (Hong Kong)
- Overseas Container
Line (OCL)
- Overseas Tankship (UK) Ltd
- Oxidental & Orient Line
- P Henderson Line
- P & O Ferries
- P & O New Zealand Ltd
- P & O Steam
Navigation Co
- Pacific Express
Line
- Pacific Forum Line
- Pacific Steam
Navigation Company
- Pacific (Standard) Transport Co
- Pakistan Merchant Navy
- Pakistan National Shipping Co
- Pakistan Navy
- Pakistan River Steamers
- Palestine Police Marine Division
- Palm Line
- Palmer Marin
- Palmer Surveys (Gt. Yarmouth)
- Pan Ocean
- Pan Ocean Chemical
Tanker Line
- Panama Pacific Line
- Papayanni Line
- Pandoro
- Papua New Guinea Shipping Corporation
- Papuan Liner Services (PLS)
- Patrick, Henderson & Co
- Pedder & Mylchreest
- Peel Shipping
- Persian Gulf Lightering Service
- Persian Oil Co
- PNSL
- Pool Shipping Co
- Port Line
- Potter Bros (Liverpool)
- Prince Line
- Princess Cruise Line (West Australia)
- Pritchard-Gordon Tanker
- Protchard-Gordon Tankers
- Purvis Shipping
- Queen's Weather Service
- Queensland Shipping
Co
- R Green & Co
- R Ropner &
Co Ltd
- R A Lapthorne
& Co
- R Thomas & Co
- R Owen
- Radcliffes (Cardiff)
- Rangoon - Coromandel Coast Service
- Rathbone Bros
- Rea Tugs Ltd
- Reardon Smith
and Sons Ltd
- Red Anchor Line (Shanghai)
- Red Funnel Steamers
- Rederi Nord (Hamburg)
- Regent Petroleum
Tankship Co / Regent Oil
- Rennies Coasters (South Africa)
- Ritsons
- River Plate Steamers
- River Steam Navigation Co
- Robert Dollar SS Co (Canada)
- Roberts Owen & Co
- Robertson Cruikshank & Co (Liverpool)
- Robinson (Chile)
- Rock Line
- Royal Army Service Corps Fleet
- Royal Australian Air Force (Marine Section)
- Royal Australian
Navy
- Royal Australian
Naval Reserve
- Royal Canadian
Mounted Police Maritime Division
- Royal Canadian
Navy
- Royal Ceylonese
Navy
- Royal Corps of
Transport Maritime Squadron
- Royal Dutch Shell
- Royal East African Navy
- Royal Fleet Auxiliary
- Royal Indian
Navy
- Royal Indian
Navy Volunteer
Reserve (RINVR)
- Royal Mail Lines
- Royal Mail Steam
Packet Co
- Royal Malaysian Navy
- Royal Marines
- Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service (RMAS)
- Royal National
Lifeboat Institution
- Royal Naval Engineering
Service
- Royal Naval Patrol Service
- Royal Navy
- Royal Navy Of
Oman
- Royal Naval Reserve
(RNR)
- Royal Naval Volunteer
Reserve
- Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
- Royal New Zealand
Navy
- Royal Nigerian Marine
- Royal Victorian Navy (Australia)
- Royal Yacht Squadron,
Sultanate Of Oman
- Royden Line
- S M Steves
- S R Graves & Sons
- S & J Thompson Ltd
- Safmarine (Cape Town)
- Saga Line
- Saguenay Shipping
- Saguenay Terminals SS Co
- Saint Line (South
America)
- Salen/Whitco
- Salmon Troller
(West Coast Of Canada)
- Salvage Association
- Salveson of Leith
- San Francisco Bay Ferries
- San Francisco, Oaklands & San Jose Ferry Service
- Sandbach Lune (Tinne?) & Co
- Sanko Steamship (Japan)
- Santa Fe International
- Sasoon & C0 (Bombay)
- SBM (Monaco)
- Scindia Steam Navigation Co
- SCNZ
- Scottish Fisheries Protection Service
- Scottish Office Fishery Protection Fleet
- Scottish Line
- Scottish Ship
Management
- Scottish Shire Line
- Scottish Tankers
- Scrutton Sons & Co
- Sea of Galilee Ferry Boat Servcie
- Sea-Land Service Inc (USA)
- Seaglen Shipping
NZ
- Seahorse Ship
Management
- Sealion Shipping
- Seaspeed (BRHLtd)
- Seatrain Lines
(New York)
- Seaworkx of Den
Helde
- Seivewright & Bacon & Co (River Plate Steamers)
- Shallow Draft Bulk Carriers (Nassau
- Shaw Savill &
Albion Co Ltd
- Shell Company (New Zealand)
- Shell Oil Co
- Shell Tankers
- Shepherd & Co (London)
- Shipping Corporation
of NZ
- Shire (Welsh) Line (Glasgow)
- Shoreside Support Ltd
- Shun Cheung Steam Navigation Co.(Hong Kong)
- Sierra Shipping Company / Line
- Silver Line
- Sin
Chiao Shipping (Singapore)
- Sinclair Anderson & Co
- Singapore Straits
Line
- Smit International
- Smit-Pentow
(Durban South Africa)
- Smith's Coasters
- Smith Line
- South African Harbour Service
- South African Marine Corporation (Safmarine)
- South African
Navy
- South African
Naval Reserve
- South African Railways & Harbours Marine Dept
- South America
Line
- Southern Nigerian Marine
- South Pacific Tuna Corp (San Diego)
- Southern Nigerian Marine
- Southern Railways Cross Channel Steamers
- Southern Shipping
Lines (Australia) Pty Ltd
- Soviet Navy?
See Famous OCs "Commander Crabb
Is Alive"
- Springbok Shipping Co
- Squarey & Kendall
- St Helena Shipping
- St Lucia Coastguard/Police
Marine Unit/Drug Enforcement/Fisheries Protection Force
(founder of)
- Stag Line
- Star Line
- Star Offshore Services, Aberdeen
- Star Shipping
(Canada)
- Starline Cruises
- State Shipping Service (Freemantle)
- Stateships of
Western Australia
- Steele & Co (Liverpool)
- Steeves & Co
- Stena Sealink
- Stephenson Clark
Line
- Stewart & Son
- Stirling Shipping
- Stolt-Neilson
(Denmark)
- Straits Steamship
Co (Singapore)
- Strick Line
- Stuart & Douglas
- Stuntbrand Mail Steamship Company Limited
- Sub Sea Seven
- Sugar Line
- Sun Shipping Co(Liverpoool) Hall Line from 1899
- Superclubs
- SuperSeaCat (Baltic Sea)
- Sutton Harbour Commission
- Svenska Orient Linien (Gothenburg, Sweden)
- Svitzer
- SWire & Sons
- Swire Pacific Offshore
- T & J Harrison Ltd
- T & W Smith (Newcastle)Tarakohe Shipping (NZ)
- T Benyon & Co
- T Lamb & Co
- T Law & Co
- T Shute & Co
- T W Dixon & Son
- T L Duff & Co
- (Messrs) Tapscott (Liverpool)
- Tasman Express Line
- Tay Ferries
- Technip
- Tedfords (Belfast)
- Tekay
Tankers
- Telegraph Construction & Maintence Co
- Terkol Tankers
- Texaco Overseas Tankships
- Terrazzo Ship C0 (Niagara USA)
- Thom & Cameron (Glasgow)
- Thomas & Co (Liverpool)
- Thomas Beel & Son
- Thomas Dixon & Sons (Belfast)
- Thomas Law & Co
- Thomas Watson
- Thompson & Co (Newcastle)
- Thomson (aka Thompson) Dickie & Co
- Thompson Anderson & Co
- Thor Dahl (Norway)
- Tidewater International
(Australia)
- Tidex Marine
- TNT
- Tolka Shipping,
Dublin
- Tonga Copra Board
- Townsend Ferries
- Town Line
- Trader Navigation
- Transatlantic Steamship Line
- Trans Oceanic
Steamship Co
- Transport Ferry Co
- Tranz
Rail
- Trawlerman
- Trident
Tankers
- Trinder Anderson
& Co
- Trinity House
- Trireme Vessel Management
- Tristan Da Cuhna
Development Corporation
- Tung Group
- Turnbull Martin & Co
- Turnbull Scotts
- Turner Morrison & Co (Calcutta)
- Tyrer & Co
- Tyser Line
- Uganda Lakes Service
- Uganda Marine
- Uganda Railways & Harbour Administration
- Ugland Management
- Ugandan River/Lake Service
- Ulster Steamship Company
- Uiterwyk Corp.
(Tampa)
- Underwater Technical Services
- Unicorn Lines
- Unicorn Tankers
- United Arab
Shipping
- United Enterprises (Singapore)
- United Fruit Co
- Union Co
- Union Castle
Mail Steamship Co
- Union Company
of NZ
- Union Gvt Transport (Cape Town)
- Union Line (New Zealand)
- Union Shipping Group
- Union Steam
- Union Steamship
Company Of New Zealand
- Union Transpot
- United Africa Line/Co
- United Arab Shipping
- United Baltic
Corporation
- United Fruit Company (New York)
- United Molasses Company
- United States Army Transport Service
- United States Line
- United States Coastguard
Auxiliary
- United States Navy
- United Towing, Hull
- Upper Lakes Shipping,
Toronto
- Vale Steamship Co
- Vela International
(Dubai)
- Vergocean
- Victoria Dept of Fisheries (Canada)
- Victoria Shipping Co (Borneo)
- Vitoil (Geneva)
- Vroon Offshore Services (Aberdeen)
- W Holyman &
Co
- W Just & Co
- W Lewis & Co
- W Lowden & Co
- W Price & Co
- W Watkins (Tugs) Ltd
- W J Lockett (Liverpool)
- W J Tatum Ltd
- W R Thomas & Co
- W T Dixon & Sons
- Wallem
SMS (Isle of Man)
- Wallem Towage & Salvage
- Welsford & Co
- Watts & Watts &
Co
- Waverley Line
- West Australian
Stateship
- West Australian
Steamships Co
- Westcott & Lawrence (London)
- Western Canada
Steamships
- West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Co
- West India & Pacific
- West Indies Federal Gvt Shipping
- Western Telegraph Co
- Westminster Dredging
- Whartons of Gunness
- Whitco/Salen
UK
- White Star Line
- Whitepass & Yukon Route Co
- Wholesale Society (Tarawa)
- Wightlink
- William Thomas Line
- Williamson,
Milligan & Co
- Wills & Co (London)
- Wilson Line
- Wimpy Marine
- Windjammer Cruises
- Windram & Co
- Woods, Taylor & Brown SS Co
- World Wide Shipping Co
- Yacht Captain
- Yangste River Steamers
- Yeman Gulf Line
- Yeoward Line
- Zapata Marine
Services (Italy)
- ZIM Israel Navigation Co
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Pilot Services
- Adelaide, Australia
- Atlantic Pilotage Authority ((Halifax and other ports in Nova Scotia)
- Bengal
- Boston,
Lincs
- Brisbane,
Australia
- Canadian Atlantic Pilotage Authority
- Cinque Ports
- Clyde
- Dartmouth
- Dee (Chester)
- Dover (Superintendent)
- Dubai
- Eden, NSW.
- English Channel
- Falmouth
- Freemantle
- Gizan, Saudi Arabia
- Gravesend Channel Pilot
- Great
Barrier Reef
- Harwich (Superintendent)
- Holyhead
- Hoogly
River, Calcutta, India
- Humber
- Isle
Of Wight (Superintendent)
- Jebel Dhanna, U.A.E
- Jeddah
- Kharg
Island
- Lagos
/ Port Harcourt
- Liverpool
- London
- Manchester Ship Canal
- Marsa El Brega,Libya
- Milford Haven
- Mombasa, Kenya
- Moulmein,
Burma
- Nigeria
Port Authority
- North
Sea
- Panama
Canal
- Penang,
Malaysia
- Port Hedland, W Australia
- Port Kembla & Eden (New South Wales)
- Port
Jackson/Sydney
- Port Lincoln
- Port of Spain (Trinidad)
- Port Pirie (S Aus)
- Port Rashid
- Queensland
Coast/Torres Strait
- Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia
- Rockhampton
& Port Alma, Australia
- San Francisco bar
- Santan (Borneo)
- St Lawrence Seaway
- Shoreham
- Sidon, Lebanon
- Silloth (Solway Firth)
- Singapore
- Southampton
- Suez Canal
- Swansea & Port Talbot
- Tees
- Teignmouth
- Torres Strait
- Townsville,
Australia
- Trent
- Trinidad
- Trinity House
- Tripoli
- Tyne
- Whyalla, S Australia
- Yangtze River
- Yarmouth
& Southwold
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Harbourmasters
- Aberdeen
- Aden
- Avonmouth
- Ayr & Troon
- Belfast
- Bermuda
- Bombay
- Bowen, Australia
- Brisbane
- Bristol
- Caernarfon, W Australia
- Calcutta
- Chittagong
- Dar es Salaam
- Dover
- Dun Laoghaire
- East London
- Eden (NSW, Australia)
- Fleetwood
- Forth Ports
- Georgetown, Guiana
- Gladstone, Australia
- Glasgow
- Hartlepool
- Hobart, Tasmania
- Hokianga NZ
- Hong Kong
- Kingstown
- Liverpool Marina
- Malacca
- Malta
- Mtwara, Kenya
- Neath & Briton Ferry
- Nigeria
- Nkata Bay, Nyasaland
- Paignton
- Penang
- Poole
- Port Headland
- Port Harcourt, Nigeria
- Port Lincoln
- Port Price, Australia
- Portland
- Portsmouth
- Rabaul, New Guinea
- Rangoon, Burma
- Saigon
- Silloth (Solway Firth)
- Singapore
- South African Ports
- Sydney
- Thevenard, S Australia
- Thursday Island
- Whyalla, S Australia
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Conway cadets have led, or been members of staff at the following
nautical training organisations:
- 10th MCM Sqn, HMNB Rosyth
- Adventure Youth Sea Training Trust (Chairman)
- Arethusa (Captain)
- Arkabar Sea School (on River Murray, South Aus) set up by OCs in 1963.
- Asia Pacific Maritime
Centre
- Auckland (NZ) Navigation School
- Australian Maritime College
- BISN Cadet ship Chindwara (master)
- Bosham Sea School
- Bradwell Sailing Centre
- Bristol School of Navigation
- British Sailors' Society (Limehouse), CO Sea Trg For Boys
- C & C Catamaran Charters (Pensacola, FL)
- Cadet Training Blue Funnel Line
- Canadian Coast Guard College
- Chindwara Cadet Ship
- Combined Operations School (Seamanship Instructor)
- Conway MN Trust
- Coxwell Sailing & Seamanship School, Flushing, Falmouth
- Dept of Maritime Studies, Brunel College,
Bristol
- Dept of Maritime Studies, Glasgow
College of Nautical Studies
- Dept Of Navigation, Riversdell College,
Liverpool
- Druleigh Business & Technical College, Auckland, NZ (Nav'n & Seamanship Instructor)
- Dufferin (India's equivalent of Conway) Captain Superintendent
- Endeavor (Replica of Captain Cook's
barque) Stockton On Tees
- Exmouth II
- Faculty of Maritime Transport &
Engineering, Australian Maritime College
- Falmouth Sailing & Seamanship School
- Fleetwood Nautical College
- General Botha, South Africa (captain superintendent, Chief Offcier, Padre and several others)
- Ghana Nautical College, Accra
- Glasgow College Of Nautical Studies
- Georgean College, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
- Great Lakes International Marine Training
Centre
- Guangzhou Maritime College
- Hibernian Marine School
- HMIS Bahadur Boys Traing Ship
- HMS Excellent (RN Gunnery School)
- HMS Ganges
- HMS Worcester
- Hong Kong Navigation School
- Hull Nautical College
- Hull Trinity House Navigation School
- TS Indefatigable
- Institute of Marine Studies, University
of Plymouth
- International Association Of Navigation
Schools
- James Watt Sea Training School Greenock (captain superintendent)
- King Edward VII Nautical School (london)
- King George VII Nautical College (Essex)
- Leith Nautical College
- Libyan Navy Instructor
- Liverpool Nautical School (Founder)
- Liverpool Polytechnic (Navigation
Dept)
- Marine Society Education & Training
Committee
- Maritime Command Pacific Training
Division (Canada)
- Maritime Studies Dept. of UWIST, Cardiff
- Merchant Navy Training Board
- National Nautical School, Portishead (2x Captain Superintendent)
- National Sea Training College, Gravesend
- Navigation and Seamanship courses,
Department Of Further Education, South Australia
- Navy League Sea Training School, Liscard (Superintendent)
- Northern Ireland Polytechnic (School
of Navigation)
- New Zealand Gvt Training Ship Amakoura
- New Zealand Shipping Co Cadet training ship Durham (2x master)
- Nova Scotia Nautical Institute (Principal)
- Ocean Fleets Training Establishments - Aulis
- Outward Bound Sea School, Aberdovey
- Outward Bound Brig, Hong Kong (at least 3 masters)
- Pangbourne School (Governor)
- Papua New Guinea Maritime College
- Plymouth School of Maritime Studies
- Port Jackson cadet ship (Master)
- Prince of Wales Sea Training Hostel, Limehouse, London (Chief Offr)
- RAN Naval Apprentice Training Establishment
- RCNC
- RCN Naval Operations School
- RCN Sea Training Staff
- RIN Midshipmen School
- RIN Officers Training School Ship HMIS Feroze, Bombay
- Royal Corps of Transport Maritime
Training Squadron
- Royal Indian Navy Training Center,
Karachi
- RN Artificers Trg Centre, Rosyth (Commander)
- RN Artificers Trg Centre, Torpoint (Commander)
- RN Gunnery School, Chatham
- RNC Dartmouth (4 serving together at one time)
- RNVR Sail Training Trust
- Royal Yacht Association Instructor
- Russell
Coates Nautical School, Branscombe, Dorest (Captain Superintendnet) The
cadets for many years in the 1920s used to sponsor a Russell Coates
cadet.
- Sail Training Association
- School Of Maritime Studies, Plymouth
- School of Navigation, University of Southampton
- School of Navigation, Sydney Technical
College
- Schools Afloat
- Seamans Training Centre, Hong Kong
- Seamans Training Ship Diparvardi
- Sir John Cass Nautical School, London
- Sir Winston
Churchill (Bosun)
- Southampton School of Navigation (Governor)
- Southampton
University, UK advanced maritime management course
- Smith Junior Nautical School, Cardiff
- Spirit of Adventure
Sail Training (Founder)
- Survival Systems Training Ltd
- Technikon, Durban
- Tisand College, Dept of Nautical Studeis (South Africa)
- Trinity House cadet training
- TS Arcadia
- Unicorn Training School,Durban
- Vancouver Navigation School (x2 Head and Chief Instructor)
- Warsash Nautical College
- Watts Naval Training School, Elham, Norfolk (Capt Supt)
- Z Line Trampships (S. America)
- Zenith Maritime Training (USA)
Conways Have Served In These Armed Forces Units
While I have listed individual Army and RAF units I am not listing individual RN vessels/establishments - the list would simply be
too big.
- 1st Dragoon Guards
- 2 Armoured Cars, Palestine
- 3rd Group Royal Engineers Water Tpt
- 3rd Hussars
- 5th Battle Sqn, Home Fleet
- 5th/14th Punjab Regt
- 9th Lancers
- 15/19 Kings Royal Hussars
- 19th Dogra Regt
- 19 Tank Transporter Sqn Royal Corps
of Transport (RCT)
- 27 Regt RCT
- 30th Lancers
- 40th Pathans Regt
- 42nd Company Imperial Yeomanry (Herts)
- 80 (Berkshire) HAA Regiment, RA
- 88th Canadian Infantry Regt
- 110th Maharattas Regt (Indian Army)
- Abu Dhabi Defence Force (Marine Section)
- Argentinian Navy
- Argylle & Sutherland Rifles
- Artists Rifles
- Australian Army Medical Corps
- Austrian Army
- Australian Infantry (51st Bn)
- Australian Light Horse
- Bengal Infantry
- Bermuda Rifles / Regt
- Bermuda Contingent, Royal Garrison Artillery
- Border Regt
- British Columbia Regt (Canada)
- Rhine Flotilla (Koln)
- The Buffs (East Kent Regt)
- Burma Army
- Canadian Cavalry
- Canadian Hussars (18th Regt)
- Canadian Mounted Rifles
- Canadian Victorian Fusiliers
- Canterbury Regt (NZ Expiditionary Force WWI)
- Cape Mounted Rifles
- Cape Town Highlanders
- Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps
- City of Edinburgh Royal Scots (1st Bn)
- City of London Cyclists Battalion
- Coldstream Guards
- Cuban Navy (in 1909 an OC was in command of the newly built FS Guanabacoa)
- Deccan Infantry Regt
- Derbyshire Yeomanry
- Devon & Cornwall Light Infantry
- Devonshire Regt
- Dorset Regt
- Dublin Fusiliers
- Duke of Cornwall's Own Yeomanry
- East Yorkshire Regt
- Egyptian Navy
- Federation Regt, Malaya
- Fleet Air Arm
- French Foreign Legion
- French Maquis
- French Navy
- Gloucestershire Regt
- Grants Guns (SA)
- Greater Manchester
Ambulance Service
- Green Howrds (Lt Col)
- Gurkha Regt
- Hampshire Regt
- Hampshire Rifles
- Hampshire Yeomanry
- HQ BAOR
- HQ British Commonwealth Force
- Honourable Artillery Company
- Howe Battalion, RN Division
- Hussars
- Hyderabad Lancers (2nd)
- Imperial Indian Army
- Imperial Yeomanry
- Inland Waterway Transport Co
- Inns of Court Rifles
- Indian Air Force
- Indian Army
- Indian Army Medical Service
- Indian Cavalry
- Iniskilling Fusiliers
- Intelligence Corps
- Iranian Navy
- Irish Army
- Irish Guards
- Jamacian Defence Force (Coast Guard) - CO and at least 1 officer
- Karachi Artillery Corps
- Kent Regt
- Kimberley Town Guard
- King Edward's Horse
- King George's Own Central Indian Horse
- Kings Liverpool Rifles
- Kings Own Scottish Borderers
- Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
- King`s Royal Rifle Corps
- King's Shropshire Light Infantry
- Kitcheners Horse
- Lancashire Fusiliers
- Lancashire Militia
- Leicestershire Regt
- Leinster Regt
- Libyan Navy
- Liverpool RN Artillery Volunteers
- Liverpool Comrades
- Liverpool Scottish
- London Regt
- Long Range Desert Group
- Lovat Scouts
- Loyal North Lancs Regt
- Lumsden’s Horse
- Machine Gun Corps
- Malasian Navy
- Malay States Volunteer Rifles
- Manchester Regt
- Middlesex Regt
- MOD HQ
- Montgomeryshire Battalion
- NATO HQ
- NATO (NAMMA)
- New Zealand Army
- New Zealand Army Territorial Reserve
- Nigerian Naval Defence Force
- North Staffordshire Regt
- Northamptonshire Regt
- Pakistan Navy
- Parachute Regiment
- Pembroke Artillery
- Polish Airforce
- Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry
- Public Schools batallion of the RNVR
- Pulleine's Rangers (South Afrcia)
- Punjab Regt
- Queen's Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment
- Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
- Queensland Light Horse
- RDA Rifles (Bermuda?)
- RAF Aden
- RAF - No 1 Flying School (Netheravon)
- RAF - No 2 Flying School (Digby)
- RAF - No 3 Flying School (Grantham)
- RAF - No 4 Flying School (Egypt) (C.O.)
- RAF - No 5 Flying School (Sealand)
- RAF - No 1 Sqn (France)
- RAF - 3rd Armoured Car Sqn (Iraq)
- RAF - 3 Sqn (Grantham)
- RAF - 4 Sqn (South Farnborough)
- RAF - 5 Sqn (France)
- RAF - 9 Sqn (Boscombe Down , Lossiemouth)
- RAF - No 13 Fighter Group
- RAF - 14 Bombing Sqn (Amman Jordan)
- RAF - 14 Fighter Group (Kirkwall)
- RAF - 15 Sqn (Martlesham Heath)
- RAF - 23 Sqn (Kenley/France)
- RAf - 25 Sqn
- RAF - 27 Squadron (Risulpore, NW Frontier, India)
- RAF - 28 Sqn (Kenly / Peshawar)
- RAF - 32 Sqn (Kenly)
- RAF - 35 Sqn (Halifaxes, Pathfinder sqn)
- RAF - 36 Sqb (Vildebeast III torpedo bombers, Singapore)
- RAF - 39 Bombing Sqn
- RAF - 45 Bombing Sqn (Helwan, Egypt)
- RAF - 49 Sqn (Conigsby)
- RAF - 54 Sqn (Hornchurch)
- RAF - 565 Sqn (Hornchurch)
- RAF - 69 Sqn (Photo recon, Maylands)
- RAF - 70 Sqn (Hinaidi, Iraq)
- RAF - 77 Sqn (Whitleyts, Coastal Command)
- RAF - 82 Sqn (Blenheims, Mediteranean then France)
- RAF - 97 Sqn (Lancasters, 3 Pathfinder Group)
- RAF - 99 Sqn (Bircham Newton then Upper Heyford)
- RAF - 100 Sqn (Bircham Newton)
- RAF - 101 Sqn (Wellingtons, Bircham Newton)
- RAF - 102 Sqn (Pocklington)
- RAF - 104 Sqn (France WWI)
- RAF - 106 Sqn (Bomber)
- RAF - 107 Sqn (Blenheims, then Mosquitoes)
- RAF - 113 Sqn (Burma)
- RAF - 114 Sqn (Blenheims, Coastal Command)
- RAF - 185 Sqn
- RAF - 204 Sqn (Cattewater)
- RAF - 205 Flying Boat Sqn RAF (Australia)
- RAF - 206 Sqn (Liberators, Coastal Command)
- RAF - 207 Sqn (Lancaster bombers, Europe)
- RAF - 209 Sqn
- RAF - 210 SQN (Sunderlands, Sullem Voe
- RAF - 214 Sqn (Bomber, Federated malay Sates))
- RAF - 216 Sqn (Heliopolis, Middle East, Africa)
- RAF - 220 Sqn (Liberators)
- RAF - 230 Sqn (Pembroke Dock)
- RAF - 234 Sqn (Spifires, Middle Wallop)
- RAF - 246 Sqn (Lyneham)
- RAF - 248 Sqn (Blenheims)
- RAF - 264 Sqn
- RAF - 394 Maintenance Sqn (Bulawayo, S Rhodesia)
- RAF - 501 Sqn (Hurricanes, Filton, Bristol)
- RAF - 503 Sqn (Manston)
- RAF - 550 Sqn
- RAF - 603 Sqn (Spitfires)
- RAF - 646 Signal Sqn (Scharfoldendorf, Germany)
- RAF - 651 Squadron (Norfolk)
- RAF - 803 Sqn (Ark Royal)
- RAF - 819 Sqn (Illustrious)
- RAF - 828 Sqn (HMS St Angelo [Malta?])
- RAF - Gibraltar
- RAF - Marine Branch
- Rhodesian Rifles
- Royal Air Force Reserve (RAFR)
- Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR)
- Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC)
- Royal Army of Oman (later known as The
Sultan of Oman's Land Forces)
- Royal Army Pay Corps (RAPC)
- Royal Army Service Corps 152nd Regt
- Royal Army Service Corps 926 Co
- Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) Water Transport Compnay
- Royal Artillery
- Royal Australian Air Force
- Royal Australian Air Force (Marine Section)
- Royal Australian
Navy
- Royal Australian
Naval Reserve
- Royal Berkshire Regt
- Royal Berkshire Volunteer Battalion
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Royal Canadian Air Force Reserve
- Royal Canadian Engineer Corps
- Royal Canadian
Navy (RCN)
- Royal Canadian Navy (Air Branch)
- Royal Canadian
Navy Reserve ( RCNR),
- Royal Canadian
Naval Volunteer Reserve (RCNVR)
- Royal Ceylonese
Navy
- Royal Corps of Signals
- Royal Corps of
Transport Maritime Squadron
- Royal Dublin Fusiliers
- Royal Dublin Volunteers
- Royal East African Navy
- Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers (REME)
- Royal Engineers
(RE)
- Royal Field Artillery
- Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA)
- Royal Flying Corps (RFC)
- Royal Flying Corps (RFC), Naval Wing
- Royal Fusiliers
- Royal Garrison Artillerry, India
- Royal Highlanders (Black Watch) Militia
- Royal Indian Engineers
- Royal Indian
Navy (RIN)
- Royal Indian
Navy
Reserve (RINR)
- Royal Indian
Navy Volunteer
Reserve (RINVR)
- Royal Irish Dragoon Guards
- Royal Irish Fusiliers
- Royal Irish Rifles
- Royal Jersey Light Infantry
- Royal Malayan Navy
- Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service (RMAS)
- Royal Military
Academy Sandhurst
- Royal Military Police
- Royal Marines (RM)
- Royal Munster Fusiliers
- Royal Naval Engineering
Service (RNES)
- Royal Navy (RN)
- Royal Navy Of
Oman
- Royal Navy Siege Guns Service
- Royal Naval Mediterranean Fleet Clearance Diving Team
- Royal Naval Reserve (RNR)
- Royal Naval Patrol Service
- Royal Naval Supply & Transport Service (RNSTS)
- Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR)
- Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
- Royal New Zealand Air Force
- Royal New Zealand Armoured Regiment (New Zealand Scottish)
- Royal New Zealand Army
- Royal New Zealand Army Service Corps
- Royal New Zealand
Navy
- Royal New Zealand
Naval Reserve
- Royal Nigerian Navy
- Royal Norfolk Regiment
- Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
- Royal Tank Regt 1st Bn
- Royal Tank Regt 47 Bn
- Royal Victorian Navy (Australia)
- Royal Warwickshire Regt
- Royal Welsh Fusiliers (RWF)
- Royal West African Frontier Force
- Royal West Kent Regt
- Royal Yacht Squadron,
Sultanate Of Oman
- SAS
- Saskatchewan Rifles
- Seaforth Highlanders
- Seinde Cavalry Regiment
- Sherwood Foresters
- Shropshire Light Infantry
- SOE
(and French Maquis)
- Soudan Defence Force
- South African Air Force
- South African Infantry
- South African
Light Horse
- South African
Navy / Naval Service
- South African
Naval Reserve
- South Lancashire Militia
- South Lancashire Regt
- South London Regt (10th Bn)
- South Midland Mounted Brigade (8th Bn)
- South Staffordshire Regt
- Soviet Navy?
See Famous OCs "Commander Crabb
Is Alive"
- Sportsmen's Bn
- Stock Exchange Bn, Royal Fusiliers
- Suffolk Regiment
- Suffolk Volunteers Regt
- Suffolk Yeomanry
- Sultan of Oman's Land Forces
- Surrey Rifles
- Thornycrofts Horse
(SA)
- Tochi Scouts
- Trucial Oman Scouts
- US Army (Heavy Field Artillery)
- US Army Reserve
Officer Training Corps
- US Army Transport Service
- US National Guard
- US Navy
- US Naval Reserve
- Victoria & St Georges Volunteer Highlanders
- Victoria Fusiliers (Canada)
- Watson's Horse, Indian Army
- Welsh Guards
- West Africa Colonial Force
- West Kent Imperial Yeomanry
- West India Regt
- West Riding Regt
- West Yokshire Regt (CO 10th Bn)
- Western Cavalry, Canadian Imperial Force
- Wiltshire Regt
- Worcestershire Regt
- Yorkshire & Lancashire Regt (Canada?)
- Yorkshire Regt
Conways have served in the following emergency/uniformed services
- Ambulance - Greater Manchester
Ambulance Service
- Coast Guard - HM Coastguard
- Coast Guard - Jamaican Coast
Guard
- Coast Guard - US Coastguard Auxiliary
- Fire - Fire Service (UK)
- Fire - London Fire Brigade
- Fire - Shanghai Fire Brigade
- Fire - New Zealand Fire Service
- Other - Kent Probationary Service
- Other - Prison Service (UK)
- Other - Royal National
Lifeboat Institution (RNLI)
- Other - Trinity House
- Police - Auckland NZ
- Police - Bechuanaland Border Police
- Police - Birmigham Police (Chief Constable)
- Police - Bolton Police Force
- Police - British Honduran Police
- Police - British South African Police in Rhodesia
- Police - Canadian Police Force
- Police - Cape Police Force
- Police - City of London
- Police - Coventry City Police Force
- Police - Cyprus Colonial Police Force
- Police - Derbyshire Constabulary
- Police - Gilbert & Ellice Islands Police Force
- Police - Gold Coast
- Police - Hampshire Constabulary (Asst Chief Constable)
- Police - Hertfordshire
- Police - Hong Kong Marine Police
- Police - Hong Kong Police
Force
(from 1997)
- Police - Jamaican Constbulary
- Police - Kent Constabulary
- Police - Kenya Police
- Police - Leeward Islands
- Police - Liverpool Police
- Police - Metropolitan Police
- Police - MOD Police
- Police - Mysore Mounted Police
- Police - Norfolk
- Police - North West Mounted Police (Canada)
- Police - Northern Rhodesia Police Force
- Police - norther Territory Police Force, Australia
- Police - Northumberland Police Force
- Police - Nottinghamshire Constabulary
- Police - Ontario Provincial Police Service
- Police - Palestine Police
Force
- Police - Palestine Police Marine Division
- Police - Peterborough Combined Police Force
- Police - Rhodesian Police
- police - River Thames Police Force
- Police - Royal Canadian
Mounted Police
- Police - Royal Canadian
Mounted Police Maritime Division
- Police - Royal Hong Kong Police (1968-1997)
- Police - Royal Irish Constabulary
- Police - Royal Protection Squad
- Police - Royal Ulster Constabulary
- Police - South African Constabulary
- Police - St Lucia Coastguard/Police
Marine Unit/Drug Enforcement/Fisheries Protection Force
(founder of)
- Police - Surrey (including a Chief Constable)
- Police - Sussex Constabulary
- Police - Toronto
- Police - Zambian Police Force
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Conway cadets have also worked in the
following fields:
- Accountant
- Actor
- Advertising Manager
- Agricultural Research Council
- Airline Pilot
- Air Surveyor
- Air Traffic Controller, Brisbane Airport
- Antique Dealer
- Architect
- Art Silk Spinner
- Assistant Whip, House of Commons
- Author (See Bibliography
for list and details)
- Bagpipe Teacher (Scots College, Sydney)
- Banana Planter, Fiji
- Bank Manager
- Banker
- Barrister At Law
- Blast Furnace Foreman
- Bolton Metropolitan College
- Bookseller
- Brewery Manager (and Founder)
- Brewery Sales Manager
- British Aerospace
- Building Society
- Bulldozer Driver
- Cargo Surveyor
- Cattle Rancher, Argentina
- Chandlery Manager
- Chartered Company Secretary
- Clinical Hypnotist
- Chartered Acountant
- Coach/Tour Operator
- Coffee Grower, Guatamala
- Commonwealth Secretariat
- Computer Consultant
- Condominium Manager, Florida, USA
- Consultant histopathologist
- Cowman
- Diplomat
- District Manager for C&A stores
- Diver
- Eastern Caribbean Regional Security
System
- Editor Staffordshire Life
- Electrician
- Estate Agent
- Estate Worker
- Film Director
- Hammer Horror Films
- Fireman
- Fish & Chip Shop Proprietor
- Florist
- Forester, Burma
- Freight Forwarding
- Fruit Farmer, Florida
- Game Conservancy
- Ghillie
- Gold Miner, Venezuela
- GP
- Health Shop
- High Court Judge
- Hod Carrier
- Honey Farmer
- Hotelier
- Hotel Manager
- House Father
- Hydrographer
- Hypnotherapist
- Insurance Consultant
- International Harvester
- Journalist
- Jumbo Jet Pilot
- Justice Of The Peace
- Landscape Gardener
- Launderette Operator
- Lawyer
- Legal Advisor, Saudi Ports Authority
- Liferaft Surveyor
- Lloyds Insurance Broker
- Lord Lieutenant
of Anglesey
- Management Consultant
- Manager Cocoanut Estate
- Managing Director
- Marine Hydrographer (Royal Naval & Civil,
lots of them)
- Marine Surveyor
- Market Gardener
- Marketing Manager
- Master Baker
- Mauritius Ministry
of Housing and Land
- Mechanical Engineer
- Member House Of Commons
- Member House Of Lords
- Member of Isle of Man Tynwald
- Metalurgist
- Meterological Officer
- Mining Engineering
- Ministry Of Overseas Development
- Missionary, Auking, China
- Mosquito pilot
- Music Publisher
- Nautical Surveyor
- New Zealand Kiwifruit Marketing Board
- Operations Officer / Manager
- Orange Grower, South Africa
- Organisation
of Eastern Caribbean States
- Patent Agent
- Personnel Manager
- Poet Laureate
- Port Inspector
- Poultry Farmer
-
Prison Officer
- Professional Father Christmas
- Publican (A few of these!)
- Radio broadcaster and documentary writer
(South Africa)
- Recruitment Consultant
- Residential Care Home
- Restauranteur
- Rock Musician
- Rothmans International Tobacco Ltd
- Rubber Planter, Malaya
- Salesman
- Shipping Compnay Director
- Silver Fox Farmer
- Statistician
- Stevedoring (Australia)
- Stevedoring Superintendent / Manager
- Systems Analyst
- Taxi Driver
- Tea Planter, Assam
- Teacher
- Textiles Company
- Timber Importer
- Tin Miner (Siam & Malaya)
- Tobacco Farmer, Nyasaland
- Trade Union Secretary
- Translator
- Tree Surgeon
- Trinidad and Tobago
Hydrographic Unit
- TV Comedy writer
- TV Presenter
- United Nations
Development Programme
- United Nations World Food Program (Rome,
Italy)
- Vicar
- Vintner/Wine Merchant
- Wool
Merchant
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"Notable Achievements"
12th Master of the Cutty Sark | 22 OCs were submariners in the Great
War. 3 lost their lives. | Aboard the third vehicle to leave
the Normandy beaches | Accountant, Lusaka City Council in Zambia
| ADC to the G.O.C. Eastern Command, India
|
ADC to the Governor of Ceylon |
ADC to the Governor of Hong Kong | ADC to the Governor General of New
Zealand | ADC to HM the Queen (several) | Admiral of the Enterprise Class Association
| Archdeacon of Basutoland |
Army, Navy & Air Force (officers) Heavyweight Boxing Champion 1925
|
Assistant Native Commissioner, Zaka, Bulawayo
| Assistant Sanitary Oficer, Letchworth UDC
| Beachmaster, Arromanches Beach, D-Day | Beachmaster, Gallipoli Landings, | Baton of Honour Winner, Police Academy, Lusaka | Bishop of St Helena | Brethern Of Trinity House (lots of
them) | British Vice-Consul, Cherbourg, France
|
British Vice-Consul, Kristiansand, Norway
|
Canadian Government's Exemplary Service
Award winner 1995 | Captain, Brunstfield Links Golfing
Society | Captain of Hong Kong Admirals Cup team | Captain, Leasowe Golf Club | Captain, Weston Super Mare Croquet
Club | Chairman, Adventure Youth Sea Training Trust | Chairman of the Audit Commission for Malaysia | Chairman, British Benevolent Fund of Madrid charity | Chairman, British Sailors Society | Chairman, Burnley Round Table | Chairman, Burton & District Horticultural
Society | Chairman, Burton Conservative Party | Chairman, Darjeeling Tea Co | Chairman of Devon IA (Ileostomy and Internal Pouch Support Group)
|
Chairman, Directors of Steel Companies of Wales
|
Chairman, Dover Harbour Board | Chairman, Foudroyant Trust | Chairman of Global Maritime Ventures
| Chairman, Governors of Broadmoor Hospital | Chairman, Hampshire & Dorset Royal
Comonwewalth Society | Chairman, HMS Trincomalee Trust (and Founder)
|
Chairman, Indian Merchantile Marine Committee (Delhi) 1924
|
Chairman, Kent Probationary Service | Chairman, Mission To Seamen Committee,
Mombasa. | Chairman, National Taxi Trades Group
| Chairman, Order Of St John For Staffordshire | Chairman, The Register of Architects Accredited in Building Conservation
| Chairman, Royal British Legion Bransgore | Chaplain to HM the Queen | Chaplain to the Forces | Chief Constable
of Birmingham | Chief Constable
of Surrey
| Chief Coastguard,
HM Coastguard | Chief Executive, Brooke Hospital for Animals | Chief Executive, National Federation of Retail Newsagents | Chief Executive, St John's Eye Hospital in Jerusalem | Chief Executive Swindon Town Football Club | Chief of Staff, RIN | Chief Hydrographer | Chief
Inspector of Constabulary for England & Wales | Chief
Inspector of Masters & Mates for GB |
Chief
Inspector of Mines, Gold Coast
|
Chief Instructor, Bengal Flying Club, dum Dum, Calcutta
|
Chief of Police
Jerusalem, Palestine Police Force 1922 | Chief Officer Bedford Institute Of
Oceanography, Nova Scotia | Chief Officer
Greater Manchester Ambulance Service | Chief Pilot, Nigerian Port Aurthority | Clan Chieftain - Clan Irving | Collector General of Customs, Jamaica | Coach World Cup winning English Rugby
Union team | Commissioner of Assam
| Commissioner of Bechuanaland | Comissioner of the Hong KongPolice | Commissioner of Irish Lights
| Comissioner of the Metropolitan Police | Comissioner of Sea Scouts, San Francisco
| Commissioner of Scouts, San Francisco |
Commander, American Legion ServicceClub , Oakland, CA (Post no 5)
|
Commander NATO Standing Force Atlantic | Commodore Keyhaven Yacht Club | Commodore Cunard Line (5) | Commodore, Medway Yacht Club | Commodore, Royal Temple Yacht Club,
Ramsgate | Competitor, BT Global Challenge | Contraband Contol Officer, Gibraltar | Crewman, Hong Kong Dragon Boat | Defined the Direct Cubic Spline Method
of evaluating integrals | Deputy Chairman, Seamans Hospital
Society | Deputy Chairman, Southern Electricity
Board | Deputy Curator of Ships, Greenwich
Maritime Museum | Deputy Leader
of the 1992 British Makalu Expedition | Deputy
Lieutenant
Of
Devonshire
| Deputy Lieutenant Of Durham | Deputy Master of Trinity House | Deputy Supreme
Allied Commander Atlantic | Designer of the funnel on the QEII
and QMII (the latter was greatly constrained as the QMII was designed
for maximum deck capacity and then the funnel was added almost as
an afterthought. The height of the funnel was thus limited to allow
safe passage under the Verrazano Narrows Bridge!) | Director, Bermuda Biological Station
For Research | Director of Kuantan Port Authority
| Director, Malawi Reserve Bank | Director, Malta Broadcasting Corporation | Director, Royal National Lifeboat
Institution | Discoverer of deep water harbour Port
Harcourt, Nigeria | Disneyland Paris's Historical Archivist | Fellow, Institute Electrical Engineers | Fellow, Institute Of Chartered Shipbrokers
| Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology
| Fellow, Institute Of Materials Handling | Fellow of Institute of Physics
| Fellow, Royal Institute Of Navigation | Fellow, The Nautical Institute (dozens
of 'em) | Fellow, The
Royal Geographical Society | Fellow, Royal Institute of Chartered
Surveyors (must be about a dozen) | Finance Director of Pubic Company in Hong Kong | Financial Manager, Boschendal Wine Estate,
South Africa | First Director of the Unification
Church (the Moonies) in Britain. Later recanted!! | First full time coach of England RUFC | First Master of the QEI | First Master of the QEII | First master of the QM II | First man to swim the English Channel | First person to land two locked aircraft after a mid- air collision (La Maistre (28-30))
| First Prisons
Ombudsman | Fleet Paymaster (RN)
| Freelance Journalist | Flotilla Vice
Commander, 1st Southern District, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary | Ford Foundation Businessman Of The
Year 1959 | Founder and Chairman, Friends Of South
African Cultural History Museums | Founder, Brockweir, St Briavels &
Hervelsfield Garden Society | Founder, Caribbean Ocean Sailing Association | Founder, Centre For Social Justice, | Founder, Dalraida Steam Packet Company,
Loch Awe | Founder,
Friends
Of The Lake
District
|
Founder and 1st Commodore of Hebe Haven Yacht Club Hong Kong
|
Founder, Institute for the Development
of Human Potential | Founder, and for many years General
Secretary of the Navigators and Engineer Officers Union | Founder, Grimsby & Cleethorpes
Yacht Club | Founder, Ringwood Brewery
| Founder, River Wye Raft Race | Founder, Rutherford Laboratory | Founder, Sea Scouts | Founder, Shoreham School of Flying | Founder, Southampton Master Mariners Club
| Founder, Volcanic Mountaineering Association | Founder, Wells & Walsingham Light
Railway | Freeman, City Of London (several of
these) | Freemason (highest known rank active
Provincial Grand Lodge officer)) | General Secretary of the Navigators
and General Insurance Co. | Govenor General of Cyprus | Govenor Orange River Colony (the one
and only ever!) | Govenor Of Queensland | Head New Spitalfields Market Tenants
Association | High Commissioner for Cyprus | Hollywood TV Film Producer | Honory Consultant to the Queensland
Museum | Housing Advisor, Government Of Trinidad
and Tobago | Inaugurated the Surveying Dept at
Newcastle University | International Emmy winner 1994 |
Inventor Delahay Davit Head Pin
|
Inventor of Micro Brewery techniques now used world wide
|
Junior Lord of the Tresuary
|
Laid Foundation Stone of Brisbane
City Hall | Leader
Conservative
Party
| Lecturer, Jamia Millia Ismalia University,
Delhi, India | Librarian, British Library. | Librarian, University of Cape Town | Liveryman of the Honorable Company
of Master Mariners | Manager, RAF Lawn Tennis centre at
RAF Halton, Bucks | Manager Shanghai Waterworks | Managing Director
Air UK Limited | Master, Badsworth Foxhounds | Master, Brisbane Branch of Company
Of Master Mariners | Master, Company Of Watermen And Lightermen
(a City company without livery) | Master, Honorable Company of Master
Mariners | Master, King Faisal's Royal Yacht
| Master, Livery Company Of Watermen | Last Master of the Queen Mary | Last Master of the Queen Elizabeth | Master, Rockwood Harriers | Master, Worshipful Company Of Farmers | Master, Worshipful Company of Joiners
& Ceilers | Mayor of St Edmundsbury, Suffolk | Member 40th Anniversary Everest Expedition | Member, Association
of Mountainering Instructors | Member British Mountaineering Council | Member Cape Horn Association (Saints Of St
Malo) | Member Catenians | Member of the
Chartered Institute of Management | Member French Maquis and other under
cover SOE activities! | Member Heversham Church Council | Member Honourable Company Of Edinburgh
Golfers | Member Honourable Company Of Master Mariners (and 1 Founder and 1 Master)
|
Member House of Keys (Manx Parliament)
|
Member Institute of Agricultural and
Environmental Research | Member International Association Of
Facilitators | Member Institute Of Chartered Shipbrokers | Member of the Institute of Fire Engineers | Member of the Institute of Marine Engineers
| Member Institute Of Mechanical Engineers | Member of the Isle Of Man Chamber
Of Commerce | Member Knights Of The Holy Sepuchre | Member Moelfre Lifeboat | Member of Parliament (3) | Member Paddle Steamer Preservation
Trust | Member Ringwood & Fordingbridge
Rural District Council | Member Riverside
Jazz Band, Grimsby | Member Samuel Peyps Club (only 60
members!) | Member The Salvage Association
| Member, Worshipful Company of Joiners & Ceilers
| Member, Worshipful Company of Shipwrights
| Military Governor Of Baghdad (many
wars ago!) |
Naval Attache, Ankara
|
Olympic diver (1924 Paris Olympics) | Olympic Runner 1928 Amsterdam Olympics | Olympic Sailor 1968 Mexico Olympics |
Orange Farmer, Limoneira Ranch, Santa Paula, CA |
Owner of half of Tupai Island near Tahiti
|
Patron, Submarine Association of Queensland
| Pedigree Pig Breeder | Permanent
Secretary, Malawi Min of Transport & Communications | Poet Laureate | POW Camp escapee | President, Aldershot Garrison Boxing
Club | President Army Motor Club | President Budget
Rent A Car International Division | President, Branch of the Royal Overseas
League | President, Canadian Chiropractor Association | President, Cape Horners Association | President of The Chartered Institute of Transport (Malaysia National Council)
| President, Climbers Club | Presidnt, Colchester
Philatic Society | President, Concorde Shipping, Inc.
| President, Fell & Rock Climbers
Club | President, Gliding Club | President, Hydrographic Society (2
so far) | President, The Institute Of South African Shipbrokers
| President, International Compumag
Society |
President, Kowloon Rotary Club
|
President MacArthur Concrete Pile Corp USA | President of Malaysian Nautical Institute (IKMAL) | President, Nautical Institute | President, Queensland United Services
Institute |
President, The Rotary Club
|
President, Royal Society of Painters
in Watercolours | President,
Russian Convoy Club | President Society
of Marine Painters | President, South African Branch of The Institute Of Chartered Shipbrokers | President, World Meteorological Society | (UK) Prisons' Ombudsman
| Privater Secretary to successive Lord Mayors of London | Purse Bearer to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland | Queen's Honorary Chaplain | Queen's Waterman | Relief Custodian, Drummond Castle,
Scotland | Restorer of crib figures, church of
St Peter, Wisbech, Cambridegshire | Royal Navy Man Of The Year 1977 | Runner up, Victoria-Maui International
Yacht Race | Salesman Of The Year, Shell Chemicals
(Alaska) - several times | Secretary & Treasurer, Delaware
Scottish Games | Secretary Rhodesia Independence League | Secretary, Shoreham School Of Flying | Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
| Senior Officer WWII PoW Camp
| Senior Tutor in Ceramics, Royal College
Of Art | Senior Vice President and Director, Cunard Line Ltd
| Shadow Secretary Of State For Defence | Silver Medal winner, National Model
Exhibition | Sixth Officer on the Titanic | State President, South Australia | Steward, Cockworthy Museum, Kinsworthy | Sub Postmaster, Stratton, Cornwall | Surveyor General Of Ships, Hong Kong | Sword Of Honour, RAF Cranwell (1922) | Sworn Measurer & Weigher to the Home Ward Freight Conference, Kobe, Japan | Trainer, Wimbledon Balls Boys | Trustee, The
Hovercraft Museum | Venice Biennale international prize
for engraving winner in1938 | Vice Commodore Army Sailing Club | Vice President, Antwerp Missions To
Seamen | Vice President, The Association of Ship Agents & Brokers of South Africa | Vice President, Canadian Broadcasting
Service | Vice President, George Cross Island
Association | Vice President, Herne Hill Harriers | Vice President, Horsfield Cricket
Club | Visiting Professor, Kings College,
London | Visting Professor, Malmo University,
Sweden | Warden, Langdale Wayfarers Hut | Winner Three Peaks Race | Winner Telford Gold Medal
| Worshipful Master, The Scinde Lodge, Karachi
|
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The Connection With The Royal Canadian Navy
(RCN, RCNR, RCNVR or On Loan)
by Laurie Farrington (February 1998)
Links: The RCN today http://www.navy.forces.gc.ca/
Links: The RCN of yesteryear http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/canada/
Conway training for service at sea, long
envied for its high standards, was famed for its high quality graduates.
Some of these intrepid young adventurers enjoyed careers in many fields
of endeavour, including the Canadian Navy and the Canadian Coast Guard.
Their professional achievements were as legendary as their ability to
endure hardship as young Conway trainees. The majority of the 71 people
identified as former Conways represented invaluable trained assets as
war began in 1939, as the RCN expanded to meet the demands of WW II.
Some of them remained with the RCN in the postwar period and attained
"icon" status. The 71 Conway Cadets identified represent
the result of a two year research project to identify Old Conways who
had Canadian naval service in the RCN, RCNR, RCNVR or on loan from the
RN.
Fortunately the people who helped to build
the Canadian Navy over the years did not come from a world of rigid
conformity. Individuals came from a variety of sources and backgrounds.
Diversity was the norm and there was certainly richness in diversity.
Conway Cadets represented one professional source of commitment and
experience which formed part of the Canadian naval mosaic.
A closer examination of the naval careers
of the 71 people reveals some interesting facts:
- Canadian naval service involved people
who attended Conway over a span of 48 years, from 1906 to 1954. The
first or senior Conway Cadet in terms of training time was a Lt. A.S.
Dean, who joined Conway in 1906 before the birth of the RCN. During
World War I he served in the RCN in HMCS Niobe; at one time he served
as HM Consul in Valencia. He is listed in John Masefield's book The
Conway on page 222. The last and junior Conway graduate was M.J. Duncan,
who left Conway in 1954, and commanded HMCS Assiniboine in 1977-79.
The oldest surviving Conway Cadet (1917-1919) on the list is probably
Allan Easton, a wartime commanding officer of HMCS Sackville, who
in September 1997 was 95 years young and living in Kingston, Ontario.
C.T. Beard, who joined the Conway for training
before the RCN was born in 1910, was one of the early RCN pioneers.
With such notables as German, Nelles, Bate and Brodeur, Charles Taschereau
Beard started his naval career before the Naval Service Act was passed
and began training in CGS Canada. In 1920-22 he commanded HMCS Patriot,
in 1928 HMCS Champlain, and in 1940 HMCS Prince Robert. In 1939 he was
the senior commander in the RCN with seniority of 1 September 1926.
Another pre-WW II pioneer was M.A. Medland who commanded HMCS St. Croix
(1940), Athabaskan (1948-49) and Cayuga (1949-50). He retired as a Commodore
in 1964. Prior to their Canadian naval service many
of the listed Conways followed merchant navy careers in various lines:
J.A. Stokes (Alfred Holt Line); G. H. Hayes ,I.B.B. Morrow, S.D. Taylor
(Silver Line); J.A. Mitchell and D. F. Olive (Canadian Pacific Steamships);
H.R. Beck (Canadian National Steamships in the Lady Boats); D.V. Trevorrow
(Union Castle Line); J.F. Aspin , B.J. Marette (Clan Line); and J.D.
Taylor (Booth Line).
- Some Conways joined the RCN via the
Royal Navy Special Entry route. They included M.A. Medland (Entry
#29, 1930), R.W. Timbrell and R.T.N. Porter (Entry #43, 1937), R.B.
Hayward (Entry #49, 1939), F.E. Wade (Entry #52, 1940), and D.S. Boyle
(Entry 53, 1941).
- Several Conways were killed in action
in WW II: R.T. N. Porter (Executive Officer of HMCS St. Croix sunk
in 1943); D. C. Hazelton (sunk in HMS Encounter in the Battle of the
Java Sea in 1942, taken prisoner of war, and died when Japanese transport
was sunk by allied submarine); and T.M.W. Golby (Commanding Officer
of HMCS Weyburn sunk off Gibraltar in 1943).
- One other Conway on the list was taken
prisoner of war but survived to serve many postwar years in the RCN:
R.B. Hayward, Navigating Officer of HMCS Athabaskan torpedoed and
sunk in 1944 in English Channel. Despite being in the water for some
time, thanks to his physical fitness he was able to find his way to
his rescuers. He spent a year in a German POW camp.
- Recipients of the Distinguished Service
Cross included: R.W. Timbrell, G.H. Hayes, W.E.S. Briggs, A.H. Easton
and J.S. Hale.
- Many on the list served in Canadian
ships in Korea: B.A. Ewens (HMCS Sioux/second tour), R.B. Hayward
(Executive Officer of HMCS Athabaskan 1951-52), A.H.M. Slater and
P.A. Scott (HMCS Nootka), and W.J.H. Stuart (HMCS Crusader).
Two people on the list were Conway King's
Gold Medallists: G.H. Hayes in 1938, and J.F. Leseur in 1941. In 1939
R.B. Hayward was awarded the Conway Queen's Silver Medal or Tate Prize.
George W.R. Graves was the first Canadian to become a Conway King's
Gold Medallist in 1931. His name is not shown on the list of 71 names
because his wartime naval service was in the Royal Navy. He served in
armed merchant cruisers and was awarded the DSC. After the war he served
with distinction in the Canadian Transport Department and Canadian Coast
Guard. He now resides in Ottawa.] See also reference to the link between
the Conway Medals and the Canadian Coast Guard College later in this
site.
- Two Conways became Maritime Commanders:
R.W. Timbrell 1971-73 and D.S.Boyle (1973-77).
- One Conway became Commander NATO Standing
Force Atlantic: D.S. Boyle (1970).
- Many of the Conways with Canadian naval
service pursued second or even third careers in the Canadian Coast
Guard Service. These included E.S. Brand, R.B. Hayward, A.A.R. Dykes,
W.J.H. Stuart, C.D. Maginley, A.J. Preston, and J.O. Jenkins. Some
commanded weather ships (A.A.R. Dykes) and DFO ships (A.J. Preston).
Some Conways served Canada in other ways than through naval service.
Conways joined government departments such as Transport, Coast Guard,
Fisheries and Oceans and their predecessors. For example, John T.
Walbran (1848-1913) trained in the Conway (1862-1864) and later became
a leader in the maritime life of British Columbia. Captain Walbran
commanded the Quadra, took part in early fisheries protection duties,
became a respected Justice of the Peace, and was the author of the
book 'British Columbia Place/Coast Names'
- After Canadian naval service, several
served with British Columbia Ferries (e.g. A.H.M. Slater and J. Butterfield).
- Four of the Conway trained people on
the list were naval aviators: J.A. Stokes (HMS Formidable and Implacable
in wartime, CO 825 Squadron in 1948, HMCS Magnificent in 1950), J.A.D.
Rowland (Venture graduate, VS 881 and 880, and later Air Canada pilot),
K.C. Grieve (was in Swordfish raid on Italian fleet at Taranto in
1940, on loan to RCN from RN, commissioned HMCS Warrior in 1946 as
Cdr Ops), and B.J. Marette ( HMCS Malahat for VC 922 in 1956, and
later pilot with CP Airlines). [Jack Stokes died in Vancouver BC on
24 September 1997.]
- The only submariner on the list is J.F.
Aspin. Also an "honorary" Old Worcester, he was seconded to teach
in HMS Worcester on the Thames in 1953-54. He sailed to Canada in
HMCS Ojibwa, the first 'O' class submarine built to RCN order and
commissioned in 1965.
- There are two brothers on the list -
S.D. Taylor and J.D. Taylor. A third brother, who did not go to Conway,
was the late Commodore Paul D. Taylor, DSC, RCN. The latter's younger
brother S.D. Taylor commanded HMCS Chambly in 1944-45. All three brothers
shared the same middle name of 'Dalrymple'.
- Conways who served on the staff of the
RCN College at Royal Roads, Victoria, British Columbia, immediately
after WW II included R.B. Hayward, D.S. Boyle, R.W. Timbrell and I.B.B.
Morrow.
- Many Conways have contributed to the
Salty Dips volumes published by NOAC Ottawa Branch where their naval
experiences are described. The authors are E.S. Brand, G.H. Hayes,
R.W. Timbrell, and H.R. Beck.
- It was the ambition of former Conways
that some day they would return in command of their own HM Ships to
sail past and salute their training ship. In the 1951-52 period the
then Lieutenant- Commander G.H. Hayes DSC, RCN, when in command of
HMCS Crescent, accomplished this ambition. Crescent steamed into the
Menai Straits and was cheered by the Cadets as she passed Conway on
her way back to sea.
Captain Hayes was also present to say farewell
to his first ship in 1974. His final task prior to retirement was to
represent the Canadian Forces at the Conway Paying Off Ceremony in Liverpool
Cathedral.
- These Old Conways trained in a ship
which was one of the last 'wooden walls' of the Royal Navy. In their
subsequent naval careers these 71 people served over the years in
far different ships, including some of the following HMC Ships: Niobe,
St. Croix, Athabaskan, Cayuga, Trillium,CFAV Endeavour, Acadia, Red
Deer, Quinte, Kenogami, Guelph, Warrior, St. Stephen, Crescent, Drumheller,
Algonquin, Chaleur, Meander, ML 069, Drummondville, Lauzon, Provider,
Discovery, Orkney, Cowichan, Margaree, Orillia, New Waterford, Border
Cities, Fundy, Chignecto, Assiniboine, Wallaceburg, Fortune, Bonaventure,
Haida, Donnacona, Cornwallis, Carleton, Venture, Discovery, Cape Breton,
Nene, Nootka, Iroquois, Labrador, Sackville, Ojibwa, Sioux, Stettler,
Patriot, Agassiz, Chambly, Prince Robert, Weyburn, Cedarwood, Ste.
Th?“se, Queen, Snowberry, Festubert, Scotian, ML 106, Swift Current,
Preserver, Hochelaga, Skeena, Micmac, Cap de Madeleine, Antigonish,
Prince Henry, Edmonston, ML 070 and 066, Prince David, Chaudi“re,
Ontario, Saguenay, Ottawa. Qu'Appelle, Swansea, and St. Laurent, to
name but a few. The Navigator of the first Canadian-manned escort
carrier HMS Nabob was a former Conway Cadet.
- Many survivors of the 71 Old Conways
now reside in retired or semi-retired status on the West and East
Coasts of Canada.
- Even as late as 1975 a Conway, M.J.
Duncan, was CO of HMCS Chignecto and senior officer of the 2nd Training
Division in Maritime Command Pacific. Another Conway, C.D. Maginley,
was on the staff of the Maritime Commander, Pacific.
- Conway trained people were very versatile.
A few examples of their achievements include: R.B. Hayward became
the third Canadian to qualify as a member of the Cruising Club of
America; G.H. Hayes is a former President of the Naval Officers Association
of Canada; W.E.S. Briggs was a noted CBC announcer and special events
expert; A.H. Easton, CO of HMCS Sackville 1942-43, is an author of
note and supporter of Sackville as Canada's Naval Memorial; J.F. Aspin
joined Northumberland Ferries (to PEI) in 1974, served 20 years and
became President and CEO, and now owns Marine Agencies in Belle River
PEI providing services to the marine industry; B.A. Ewens on retirement
from the Navy in mid 1960's joined the Biology Department of McMaster
University in Hamilton, Ontario; S.D. Taylor served in the RCMP Marine
Section and later was connected to West Coast commercial salmon trollers;
J.A. Brown was the official Hydrographer Pacific Coast in the post
WW II period; J.A. Stokes became a financial analyst in a large Vancouver
investment company; D.F. Olive worked in one of Canada's major insurance
companies; C.M. Fry was Director of Merchant Seamen Manning Pool in
Montreal in WW II; and M.J. Duncan, the last Conway Cadet to join
the RCN, on retirement from the Navy in 1988 became the Trials Master
for all new Canadian patrol frigates built by Saint John Shipbuilding
since that time.
The relationship between the Conway and
the Canadian Navy is now a matter of history. Research confirms that
the Conway connection has had a positive and profound effect on the
naval and maritime scene in Canada. 1906-1907 A.S. Dean
1906-1907 C.M. Fry
1906-1908 C.T. Beard
1906-1908 W.G. Lalor
1908-1910 W.G. Wright
1909-1910 E.S. Brand
1909-1911 V.H. Antle
1911-1914 J.W. Shaw
1915-1917 J.A. Brown
1915-1918 D.H. McKay
1916 R.F.A. Redman
1917-1919 A.H. Easton
1918-1920 F.B. Hutchings
1917-1920 F.W.M. Drew
1920-1922 T.G.S. Cairns
1920-1922 A. Moorhouse
1920-1922 J.D. Taylor
1921-1923 W.E.S. Briggs
1922-1924 T.M.W. Golby
1925-1928 K.C. Grieve
1926-1927 R. deC. Knight
1927-1928 F. Jones
1927-1929 D.R. Watson
1927-1929 C.F.W. Cooper
1927-1929 S.D. Taylor
1928-1930 M.A.Medland
1929-1932 S.W. Buxton
1930-1932 G.E. Murrell
1930-1932 D.F. Olive
1931-1933 A.A.R. Dykes
1933-1935 H.R. Beck
1933-1935 J.C. Smith
1934-1936 F.J. Boyer
1934-1936 J.A. Mitchell
1934-1936 R.T.N. Porter
1934-1936 J.A. Stokes
1934-1937 J.C.W. Nottbeck
1935-1937 R.W. Timbrell
1936-1937 K.D. Isted
1936-1938 G.H. Hayes
1936-1938 D.C. Hazelton
1936-1939 J. Butterfield
1936-1939 F.E. Wade
1937-1939 R.B. Hayward
1937-1939 I.B.B. Morrow
1937-1939 A.G. Murray
1938-1940 P. Henry
1938-1940 R.J. Mann
1938-1940 W.W. Robinson
1939-1940 D.S. Boyle
1939-1941 J.F. Leseur
1939-1941 B.A. Mitchell
1939-1941 A.J. Preston
1939-1941 A.H.M. Slater
1939-1941 W.J.H. Stuart
1940 W.G. Hunt
1940-1942 B.A. Ewens
1940-1942 J.S. Hale
1940-1942 G.G. Smith
1941-1943 P.A. Scott
1942-1944 G.H. Hill
1944-1945 J.P. Jones
1945-1947 C.D. Maginley
1945-1947 B.J. Marette
1948-1949 J.F. Aspin
1948-1949 D.V. Trevorrow
1949-1951 G.C. Dale
1949-1951 J.O. Jenkins
1949-1951 W. McMunagle
1952-1954 J.A.D. Rowland
1953-1954 M.J. Duncan
The Connection With The Royal Indian Marine / Royal Indian Navy
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