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Update History (most recent at the top)

Date
Update Details (click blue text to go to the page)
work in progress




Club's Links to other "Old Boys'' Associations/Chat Groups
Added new links to:
-  TS Dolphin
-  TS Gravesend

Diary
Added details of
-  the 2012 Club AGM and  dinner dance at the Marriott Hotel Bristol , 28th/29th Sept
-  The Friends' memorial service to our old wooden mother on 11th March 2012.
The Friends' joint dinner with TS Conway at the Athenaeum Club, Liverpool on June 16th.
-  The Friends' memorial service on
17 June 2012 for old Conways who have crossed the bar in 2011/12.
-  The Friends'  annual meeting on
10 November 2012.
-  The Friends' remembrance service on 11 November 2012.

Image Archive

-  Added a new source photo from which Williams's 'Away heavy duty cuters crew' seems to have been painted. http://gallery.me.com/alfiewindsor72#104038

Lost At Sea
Added more details about Maurice E. Delaney(58-60) who was lost at sea from the RMS Darro in Jun-Jul 1966. His body was never recovered. (Thanks to OC Barrie Lewarn (58-60))

Published the updated list of OCs lost at sea. This is such an important document. Please check it carefully, particuarly the list on the last page to see if you can add a new or clarify an existing entry.


2012 Jan 5th


Bibliography

Added cover photos for:
- 50 North by Lt Cdr Alan H Easton DSC RCNR
The Admiralty Hydrographic Service by Vice Admiral Archie Day RN KBE CBE CB DSO (1913-14)

- Rock Ferry, New Ferry & Bebbington by Dave Mitchelson.
- The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to 1900 by Clowes first published in 1895 and now republished.

Club
Updated:
-  Entries for the Officers and Committee - click here
-  Contact details for The Cadet (Editor and Hon Sec) - click here
-  Prices for a few items in the shop and revised the layour to (hopefully) make it easier to view items - click here


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

Added new links to:
-  P&O
-  Palm Line
-  Royal Mail
-  Shell Tankers
-  Shaw Saville
-  Union Steamship Co
-  Watts Watts & Co


Image Archive

Now 8,374 entries. All new entries are in Accessions:
-  Added new Art Gallery
albums for Davies, Kinghorn, Nutman and Shaw. Click here
-  Added new album 1950 Club Dinner. Click here
-  Created a new Art Gallery section for paintings of the three ships. Click here
-  Added 27 new images for the years 1926, 50, 59, 60 and 61
-  Added two new images of Conway Club buttons to the Crests album (thanks to Ken Huggins)
-  Added a new short film clip of the ship aground - possibly taken on the day of the grounding or very soon afterwards.
Click here
- Added details of two new radio broadcasts, one made by Cadet Captain Mortimer-Booth in 1939 as part of the King's Empire day speech, and the other made by Captain Hewitt in 1961. We have the text but not the actual broadcasts. Click here





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)
-
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 Captain

 

 

 

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.
 

2010 Dec 28th

Diary       Removed past events

2010 Dec 11th

Teaser Club

On the Home Page and the Club Welcome pages I have added details of how to join and who to pay - particulalry for those outside the UK


2010 Nov 3rd

A Career At Sea?


Updated 'Shipping Companies' with:
Australian Steam Ship Company, Imperial & International Communications Ltd, Indian General Navigation Company, Irish Lights Steam Ship Company, San Francisco Bay Ferries to give 822 entries.

Updated 'Harbour Masters' with: Bombay to give 38 entries.

Updated 'Pilot Services'  with:
Mombasa, Kenya to give 59 entries.

Updated 'Nautical Training Establishments' with: Hibernian Marine School
to give 85 entries.

Updated 'Armed Forces' with: 9th Lancers,
110th Maharattas Regt (Indian Army), City of London Cyclists Battalion, Irish Army, Nigerian Naval Defence Force, Royal Berkshire Volunteer Battalion, US Army Transport Service to give 197 entries.

Updated 'Police Forces' with
Cyprus Colonial Police Force to give 50 entries.

Updated 'Notable Achievementst' with:
Assistant Native Commissioner, Zaka, Bulawayo, Assistant Sanitary Oficer, Letchworth UDC, Beachmaster, Gallipoli Landings, British Vice-Consul, Cherbourg, Comissioner of Sea Scouts, San Francisco, Fleet paymaster (RN), Founder, The Centre For Social Justice, Founder, Southampton Master Mariners Club, Manager Shanghai Waterworks, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Worshipful Master, The Scinde Lodge, Karachi

Updated 'Careers' with:
Coach/Tour Operator, Metalurgit, to give 138 entries.

Notable OCs

Updated list of RN Commodores with Anchor (details required), Sutcliffe and Unwin to give 22 entries.

Updated list of Shipping Company Commodores with the Bengal Pilot Service and Nigerian Marine.

Updated 'International Sportsmen' with
E A Hamilton Hill


In Memoriam

Updated 'Awards' with the Polar Medal



2010 Nov 1st

A Career At Sea?

Added Torres Strait PIlot to the list giving us 58 pilots. Thanks to Captain George Homes (53-56)

Added to Shipping Companies: Andrew Youle & Co, Bigland Brown & Co, Colonial Oil,Don Line, Donaldson, Rose & Co (Aberdeen), IF Co, John Joyce & Co, McIlwreath & McEachan, River Plate Steamers,  Union Co, now 817 entries.

Added Grants Guns (South Africa) to the list of armed forces, now 190.

Added Jamaican Constbulary making 49 emergency/uniformed services

Bibliography

Added new books by Desmond Fforde and Geoff Woodland - the latter is on the home page

Addded the cover for The Canadian Coastguard 1962-2002 - Auxilio Semper by Charles D. Maginley (45-47)

Updated the entry for John Perry's "Quit Ye Like Men" to correct the publisher's email adress which should be memoirclub@email.msn.com

OCs' "Personal" Web Sites

Added 60-62 Geoff Woodland giving 171 entries.


Image Archive

This is the largest update of images I've ever done - 762 new entres taking us to 7,256 images in the archive. There are already a hundred or so new ones waiting! It has taken me a huge amount of time to get them ready and loaded. It normally takes about 5 minutes per image, this lot have taken much more than that becuse I've had to create so many new indexes and albums. That explains why some of you have waited so long to see your images loaded, and why I've been silent on the chat group (link of the day can resume!)

As previously, I can only apologise for the poor quality of some images but I still work on the principle that a poor image is better than  no image.

New Theme Albums:
-  Coaling
-  Concerts & Plays
-  Model Making
-  Tour of the Tents
-  Uniforms - No 1 Dress
Uniforms - Sports Kits
Uniforms - Working Rig

Updated Theme Albums:
One or more new images added to each of:
-  Athletics,
-  Boxing, 
-  Crests, Cricket, Cutters,
-  Figurehead, Flying,
-  Gigs, Gold medal winners,
-  Hockley,
-  Juice Barge,
-  Mountains,
-  No 1, No 2,
-  Pinnace,
-  QBs,
-  Relics, Royal visits, Rugby 1st XV, 2nd XV, 3rd XV, 4th XV, Bantams XV Colts XV, Rugby Misc,
-  Sailing, SCCs, Ships company, Ships models, Silver, Staff,
Tour of the:   camp (inside),  camp (outside),   dock,   kelvin block,  new block (inside),  new block (outside),  Rock Ferry grounds,   ship (decks),   ship (hull and masts), strait (to Bangor), strait (at PN),

People & Places "Today" Albums:
-  New entries for Club Dinners for 1927, 1928, 1935, 1936, 1939, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1954 and 1963
-  Updated 150th reunion 59 term dinner
-  Updated How We Look Today with two new OCs
-  Updated Reunion of 50-51 cadets in 1991 @ Mold

New Art Gallery Albums
-  "ANR"
-  Bottomley
-  Daniel
-  Frater
-  Hook
-  Langton
-  Longbottom
-  Rodmell
-  "TMG"

Updated Art Gallery Albums
One or more new images added to each of:
Andrew. Cadet B. J. B. Andrew also signed his work as "BJBA" and "Bevis Andrew"
Barnes (includes a self portrait)
-  Ellis
-  Shoesmith
-  Thorpe
-  Williams
-  Unknown Artists - Cartoons
-  Unknown Artits - Drawings

Document Albums
I've got hundreds of documents waiting to be scanned so I've completely revamped this section; it is now better structured and ready for a major expansion. There is an index page listing the types of document that can be viewed and then individual pages for each index entry. Lots of new stuff here. The index currently includes:
-  Advertisements
-  Book covers
-  Cadet magazine covers
-  Conway songs
-  Exams - entrance (New)
-  Exams - passing out
(New)
-  Fees
-  Lesson cards
-  Newspaper and magazine articles (updated)
-  Passing out certificates
-  Prize lists
(New)
-  Prospectuses (updated with 1930's)
-  Reunion programmes
-  Plans of buildings, camp, moorings, Ship decks, Ship hull, sports grounds

-  Rules & regulations (New)

-  Slop chest
-  Stationery (New)
-  Sports day programmes (New)
-  Term calendars (New, various entries for 1960 to 71)
-  Terminal reports
-  Watch bills (New)
-  What Company Shall I Join Issue 2 (Please email me if you have Issue 1 or 3)

New Year Albums
-  1949 Opening of Shore Establishment 21st Oct

Updated Year Albums
One or more new images added to each of:
-  1800s (the next update will split out the 1800s into indivudal years)
-  1926, 27, 28, 29
-  1930, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39
-  1939-45 Plas Dinam now includes Gordonstoun
-  1940, 41, 42, 43, 45, 47, 48, 49
-  1950, 51, 52, 53,  54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59
-  1963, 64, 66, 67, 68, 69

2010 Oct 21st

Narrow Boat Emily continues to take up a lot of my time and I am in the process of adding over 650 new images which is taking an inordinate amount of time but which I think you will enjoy once I get them all published. In the meantime I have made the following updates:

Diary added a number of new events for the coming months and for 2011. In particular:

- UK Scottish Branch has a dinner on 7th November at Aberfeldy.

- The Friends of HMS Conway have their AGM on 13th November and thier annual Remembrance Service on the 14th.

- UK South West Branch has a luncheon and tour of the Devonport RN dockyard on 26th November.

 

2010 Sep 12th

Sorry about the lack of updates for the last few months -we've been rather busy on our narrowboat. This is a quick update to say I've deleted all the old Diary entries and have updated the home page to remind youn that the Club's annual dinner dance and AGM is looming. Nothing will ever compare to last year's 150th celebrations but this year marks a special centenary, 100 years since the founding of the Club.

 

2010 May 10th

Bibliography

Added a new autobiography by Tony Matthews (51-53)

The History of HMS Conway is now available as an eBook click here.

Club Pages

Completely redesigned, click here

Friends pages

Updated them so that the Lost at Sea page also appears as a current project. Also added the Roll of Honour Project to the list of completed activities.

Shop Added details of John Masefield's first recording now available for sale.

Attention South African OCs! An OW is trying to set up get togethers in Gauteng in association with Old Bothas, OWs and OPs so that old training ship associations can continue in South Africa. Go to the News page and look under South Africa.

A Career ar Sea has been a bit quiet of late. The pages now list 807 shipping companies, 57 pilot services, 37 harbourmasters, 84 nautical training organisations, 189 armed forces units, 48 emergency/uniformed services and 136 civilian jobs. Please email me if your details are not covered.

2010 March 16th

Replaced the Friends of HMS Conway pages with a completely new structure and lots of new content. In due course other sections of the site will be similarly restructured.

Conway Ringtone: To entice you to their new pages you can download a mobile phone ringtone of the Conway Song from their Welcome Page. It works fine on my iPhone and only took seconds to transfer from the web page to my phone - if you have problems that's to do with your phone not my ringtone!

 

2010 February 28th

 

150th Reunion added

- missing page of attendees for the years 1959 to 1962 as pages 06 07. Click here

Diary added / updated:

- Added three new events for the CWP Australia Queensland Branch

- Australia South branch's Dinner Dance & AGM - interesting venue.

- Canada Central branch's events for the year.

- Added two new events for the UK East Midlands branch.

- UK NE CWP branch events for the year, some really interesting visits planned.

- A change to the UK NW branch venue on 21st April and 20th October.

- Advance notice of a new Scottish branch event in mid May.

- New for UK SW branch 2010 May 21st Luncheon at Kelly College Tavistock Devon.

- Reunion 2010 in Tasmania updated likely costs.

- Reunion 2011 in Singapore - now confirmed and new details of the itinerary added

Club Branches - added new contacts for the UK NE CWP Branch.

Cruising Club added details of their first annual rally at Dartmouth in June.

Image Archive now has 6,650 entries click here to see the latest additions which cover the years 1893, 1905, 1906, 1914, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 19048, 1963, 1964, 1968, 1969 and 1974. There are also photos in Relics of an anchor recovery, a lot more from the 150th and a new album for the House of Commons visit in 2009. As always if you have more images - please send them to me.

Shop added

- contact details for the new Club Shop manager.

- New Print of HMS Nile sailing available from Brown, Son & Ferguson http://www.skipper.co.uk/BookStore/showpage.aspx?book=157

 

 

Added full details of the 2008 Club AGM and Dinner Dance to the Diary page.

Updated details of the 2009 150th Anniversary Reunion available here. See link under 'Programme'.

Added pictures of the final items of new engraved glassware available through the Club Shop: The Conway Club (tumblers, water carafe and mini decanter).

Started a new section on the Staff page for Chairmen and Committee. If you can fill in gaps or provide photos please let me know.

Added exceptionally detaiiled full deck plans of the Ship to the Misc page. They were produced in 1953 to enable plans for the refit to be prepared. To ensure every last detail is visible I have added them as very large pdf files 1.5 to 2Mb each so the page will take a long time to download but the wait is well worthwhile. When they are individaully opened in Adobe Reader you can scale them from a full view of the whole deck on a single sheet of A4, to a point where a square foot of deck space can be expanded to fill the whole screen.

2008 February 22nd

Added first details of the 2008 Club AGM and Dinner Dance to the Diary page.

The www.cwpreunion.org site for the Christchurch 2008 November long weekend now has Registration and Payment details included. Payment is requested by June 08 as per the site details. The credit card secure payment has been tested. These dertails also added to the Diary page.

Full details of the 2009 150th Anniversary Reunion, including a  booking form, are now available here.

Plans are afoot for a 50th anniversary reunion of 1961 QBs. Details on the Diary page.

Home page links to the above events have been adjusted.

 

2008 February 11th

Very attractive sets of engraved glassware now available thorugh the Club Shop: The Conway Club

Details of this year's London BBQ on Thursday 19th June can be found in the News section

Added our third Albert Medal to the Notables section awarded to Lt Cdr ARS Warden (GC (AM) RN (years not known). The Albert Medal was awarded for "daring and heroic actions performed by mariners and others in danger of perishing, by reason of wrecks and other perils of the sea". In 1949 it was amalgamated with the George Cross.

Made several corrections to the list of Chief Officers especially for the 1940s. Added to the list of staff, Messers Bloyne, Buckby, Burgess, Hall, Smith and Staverley all masters who left or joined in 1917.

More changes to A Career At Sea?

-  Now 585 shipping companies thanks to P.H. Winstanley (63-65) for Golden Bay Cement Company (NZ) and P & O New Zealand Ltd. Also added Associated Humber Lines, Iranian Navy, Leith Salvage & Towage Co and London Line.

-  Now 172 uniformed services after adding Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, Machine Gun Corps, North Staffordshire Regt, Queensland Light Infantry and Royal West Kent Regt.

-  Added a new award, the Russian Cross of St Vladimir with Swords.

2008 January 8th

Quite a large update to kick off the New Year:

I've discovered a new George Cross medal winner: Lt Cdr W. Fletcher (GC (AM) RN (years not known). He was actually awarded the Albert Medal but the AM was later amalgamated with the GC as it was considered to be of equivalent status. Notables

A Career At Sea? extended again:

-Thanks to Weevil Wild (65-68), Paul Warren (64-67), Dave Stocks and others we now have 577 shipping companies (was 525). It only seems like yesterday I was aiming for 400 shipping companies now we're close to 600!  Let me know if any of yours are missing.     

- Other entries: now 164 uniformed services, 47 pilot services and 27 harbourmasters.

- Added Accountant, Commissioner of Police Hong Kong, Director Malta Broadcasting Corporation, Finance Director of Pubic Company in Hong Kong, Chartered Company Secretary and Rock Star to list of other employments, now 147.                                       

- Maritime training establishements updated with Adventure Youth Sea Training Trust, Arkabar Sea School (on River Murray, South Aus) set up by OCs in 1963), Cadet Ship Chindwara. Falmouth Sailing & Seamanship School, King George VII Nautical College (Essex), Libyan Navy Instructor, RAN Naval Apprentice Training Establishment , Papua New Guinea Maritime Colleg , Sir John Cass Nautical School (London) and Vancouver Navigation School (Chief Instructor).

Commodore MGB Manning AFC FCMI RN (62-66) kindly pointed out that he is a Commodore and so I've added him to our list of Senior Officers in Notables. Also added a new Admiral (Billings) and Air Vice Marshall(White) so we now have 26 Admirals, 13 Commodores (RN), 3 Generals, 4 Air Marshalls and 2 Air Commodores (Roberts). I've re-organised the listings under these new headings. Also added personal entries for Admiral Sir Sackville Hamilton Carden KCMG RN (1868-70) who planned the Dardenelles campaign and Captain W.H. Coombes (1907-09) who did much to improve the professional standing of MN officers. Updated the entries for Admiral Sir Richard Peirse RN (1873-75) and his son Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard E C Peirse KCB, DSO, AFC, RAF (1905-07).

Added Jay ‘Birdie’ Hooper (1956-58ish) to the list of international sportsmen. He represented Bermuda in the 1968 Mexican Olympics.

Updated list of those with Personal Web Sites (now 133) to include Admiral Sir Charles Thomas Mark Pizey KBE, CB, DSO DL RIN (12-15), James Atkinson (44-46) and Steve Webb (67-70) - he's got a web site and film clips. Also added the group web page for the December 1956 QBs.

Warrent Offficers Bossy Phelps, Ag Collins and Tooley Lee added to the list of staff along with a new photo of Captain Mowll (Captain Superintendent 1862-71). Updated lists of Padres and Chief Officers and added more anecdotes about members of staff.

Books by OCs updated with several by Hugh Perks (year not known), one by Captain Coombes (07-08) and one by Lt Ian Fraser VC RNR(36-38)

2007 Nov 1st

Added latest details of the 2009 150th Centenary Celebrations including hotel booking arrangements.

Updated the list of reunions with the 2002 Reunion of Easter 1962 QBs Lots of new entries added to the list of OCs with their Personal Web Sites. There are 127 entries now, listed by years and then alphabetically.Added two interesting entries to the Notables section for Commander John L. Rigge RN OBE (1932-33) and Terence Fisher (Approx 1916-8) Hammer Horror Films' lead director. Revised the Bibliography so that all books written by OCs or members of staff are together. They include books with Conway content, fiction and technical books. There is a separate section for books with Conway content but not written by OCs. Added a number of new works by OCs to the Accessions section of the Bibliography pages Some interesting stuff.

Added TS Dufferin (India's equivalent to Conway), , RCN Naval Operations School and RCN Sea Training Staff to list of training establishments in a Career At Sea? An OC was Dufferin's Captain Superintendent during WWII. Also added new Shipping Co Commodore.

Updated A Career At Sea with International Maritime Transport our 524th Shipping Co., and added New Zealand Fire Service and Zambian Police Force to Uniformed Services giving 149 entries. Added Companion The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) to the List of Medals

Updated the Staff section with a new photo of Conway's third Captain Superintendent, Capt Mowll.

2007 Oct 25th
Added a reminder on the Home page (and the Friends and For Sale pages) about the fantastic limited edition Spode plate commemorating the Plas Newydd window in the Conway Chapel. This is a great way to support the Chapel so please consider buying one.

I am building a page of links to recent OC events. There are three so far, the latest a link to the page for the 2002 reunion of Easter 1962 QBs - actually I've mislaid this link so if you know it please email me!.Added Abram Lyle & Sons, British Antarctic Survey, Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd and Henry F Watt to the list of shipping companies giving 523 in total. Added Royal Hong Kong Police (1968-1997) and Hong Kong Police (from 1997) to the list of uniformed services to give 147 in total. A Career At Sea?

Added a new section in Bibliography on Joseph Conrad and the references to OCs/Conway in many of his books e.g. the lead characters in Lord Jim and The Secret Sharer are OCs. Also added a new book "Isle of Man; Then and Now - A Photographic Journey" by Andrew Douglas (OC) and new books by Con Lloyd (56-58) "in Command' and "Anchors & Anchorwork".

2007 Sep 5th

 

Dates have been set for the 150th Anniversary Celebrations at Liverpool in 2009. Click here for details.

The editor of ther Club Newsletter, Alan Burns (48-50) ever, and rightly, a stickler for accuracy, challenged my dates for the Conway song. I'm working from very poor scans of the Cadet magazines; some are awful and the three I relied on here are amongst the worst. A bit more searching though adjacent pages and I found more legible dates. He was quite right; the 'third' song was introduced in December 1916. Details were published in the Club Newsletter No. 42, Autumn 2001 pages 28-30. Conway Songs.

Added the first Chief Officer, a Mr Littler, to the list of Chief Officers.

Added a few more details abot the large painting of the Ship above the entrance to the Mess Deck in the New Block: Relics.

Updated the entry for Lt Henry Warington Smyth Baden-Powell RNR KC Admiralty Court (1861- 1864, cadet number 187), founder of the Sea Scourts Notables.

Added Bowater Steamship Company, Department of Energy Mines & Resources, Canada, George Horsley & Co (West Hartlepool), Jordain Shipping and T & W Smith (Newcastle) to give 519 shipping companies. Added Canadian Atlantic Pilotage Authority to give 42. Added Ceylon Planters Regt, King Edward’s Horse and the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) to give 146 uniformed services. Extended the list of maritime training organisations in which OCs have served to include Canadian Coast Guard College, Georgian College, Nova Scotia Nautical Institute, Survival Systems Training Ltd and the National Nautical School, Portishead where an OC was once Captain Superintendent. A Career At Sea?

2007 Jul 23rd

For years I knew that the Conway Song we all know was not the original one. I had words for an earlier song but no music. A long search has finally come up with three songs! The first, extant in 1898 was also titled "A Conway Carol". I've found the missing music for the second song although this seemed not to be sung by 1917. The third song, 'our song' was introduced in December 1918. Conway Songs

Updated List of Club Committee Members

More Shipping Co Commodores.

More Medals & Awards.

Added more Uniformed Services - 143 in total.

Updated the list of Padres

Revised the list of Chief Officers / First Lieutenants / Director of Nautical Studies

Updated Senior Officers with our 24th and 25th Admirals (Everett and Niblett), 4th and 5th Commodores (Lane and Ruthven) and 2nd and 3rd Generals (Barber and Nicholson )

Separated out the list of 14 Harbourmasters and 41 Pilot Services from the list of Shipping Companies . Thanks to Dave Collick(Fxl 55-57) for Michalinos and Bohannen Line, Andrew Tinsley (54-56) for General Maritime S.A. (Casablanca) now 516.

Added RNC Dartmouth(at one time there were 4 OCs serving on staff together), Port Jackson cadet ship (Master) and Russell Coates Nautical School, Branscombe, Dorest (Captain Superintendnet) to Maritime training centres.

Fixed broken links to personal sites and added new personal sites for (now 52):

1866-67 Kyrle Bellew

1911-13 Rear Admiral Douglas Henry Everett RN CB CBE MBE DSO (search under RN and "E")

1960-61 Rick Foster

1963-67 Alec McNab

1964-67 Paul Warren

1964-68 Nick Watkins 1

1964-68 Nick Watkins 2

1971-74 Paul Nicholas 1

1971 -74 Paul Nicholas 2

1971-74 Paul Nicholas 3!



 

Date

Update made
2007 Jul 9th

Added new OCs with private web sites / significant mentions in web sites. 47 now. Let me know of any I've missed Added a new "Returning Lost Boys" page to the Home Page. This is a tie in with the campaign to track down lost OCs being run in association with Geraldine McCaughren's Peter Pan In Scarlet; her wonderful sequel to Peter Pan.Moved details of recent reunions to the renamed "Diary & Recent Events" page. Send me details of any other events and I'll add them. Added T.R. Sanderson to the Staff list. He taught Spanish 1952-3 (at least).Thanks to Messrs Budd (71-3), Burkey (62-64), Haskins (40-43), Kirkham (54-55), MacVicker 68/71, Moody (04-06), O'Donnell 66/68, Walker (62-64) and Williams 53-5 lines are now up to 548. New Shipping Co Commodores - RML 51 to 53, BISN 54-5 and British Tankers 61/2 Several new uniformed services, now at 110. Chinese Maritime Customs was the magical 100th! Several new Maritime training establishments - now 57.

Added Member of the Institute of Fire Engineers.

OCs on web sites Returning Lost BoysDiary & Recent EventsStaff

A Career At Sea?

2007 Jul 4th

Added photo of Paul Kingsford in 1990 to Staff photos Initial information about 2009, the organisers want your views.

Shipping companies now 480 and new training centre in Durban.

Staff photos2009

A Career At Sea?

2007 Jul 2nd

All new Staff pages.

Shipping companies on a roll - 467 now. Aiming for 500. We need your help!

Staff

A Career At Sea?

2007 Jun 28th

New images in Vancouver Day 3, new page for Alaskan Cruise.Added our 22nd and 23rd Admirals

Added extra shipping companies (now 442) and services (now 90)and a couple more shipping company commodores

Vancouver Reunion Notables

A Career At Sea?

2007 Jun 25th

New images in Vancouver Day 3.Added our 20th and 21st Admirals - Vice Admiral Brownfield and Admiral Murray. New notable OC Lt Cdr B M Skinner (1930-32), Captain of HMS Amethyst of Yangtse Incident fame

Added extra shipping companies (now 430) and services (now 86) plus 4 extra training ships and 2 new Olympians

Vancouver DinnerNotables

A Career At Sea?

2007 Jun 22nd

Added review and photos of the London BBQ

2007 Jun 13th

New President of the Cruising Club.Minor update to Friends 'Events'

Added notes and photos for the Vancouver reunion, and details of the 2008 Christchurch NZ reunion in 2008.

Cruising ClubFriends - click events

HMS Conway

2007 Jan 17th

Two new sets of cufflinks for sale from the Club Shop.Lots of change for the Cruising Association including diary datesAdded Bullard King, Carmichaels, Cowasjee Line (Karachi),
F Laeisz (Hamburg), John Steward, British Rail Hovercraft Ltd (Seaspeed), Hovertravel Ltd, RANR, RNR, RNVR, Royal Marines, Scottish Fisheries Protection and Tung Group to lines - 388 now. Added the Australian Army, The Queen's Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment, Royal Army of Oman, Royal New Zealand Armoured Regiment (New Zealand Scottish), Liverpool Police,Parachute Regiment, West Yorks Regt, South African Light Horse to the list of Services & Units - 68 in total now. Also several more medals added and listing revised.

Thanks to Peter Booker, Lt Col David Beveridge, Alan Burns and James Hume for most of the extras.

Club ShopCruising Assoc

A Career At Sea?

2007 Jan 8th

Updated the Diary page with new dates and events.Added book "The Queens & I" by Commodore G Marr (22-24)Lots of new high res photos of the Chapel windows on the Friends' pages. Thanks to John McLeod (65-67) for taking them.

Added new section listing the Services & Units in which OCs have served.

DairyBibliographyFriendsJohn's site

A Career At Sea?

2007 Jan 2nd
My thanks to Robert Hilton 54-56 his shipping companies, plus 3 from the 56 propsectus, bring the total to 373.
31 Dec 2006

Recruitment Drive 2007 page addedUpdated list of Club Branches and contactsUpdated Diary Page

Added Gulf Oil, Salveson of Leith, Kingston Trawlers and ASP shipping to list of shipping lines (352 now) and Chief Officer Greater Manchester Ambulance Service, Olympic sailor 68 Olympics and President Society of Marine Painters to other achievements

Recruitment Drive 2007Branch DetailsDiary Page for 2007

A Career At Sea?

12 Nov 2006

Added a new Notable OCs entry for Douglas V Duff.Updated Solent Branch contact detailsUpdated the Conway Song page to correct the Hullaballoo, add "2-6-heave" and revise the Original Conway Song.Added a new section in the Bibliography for Commander Douglas V Duff (14-15) who wrote over 100 novels and short stories. His heroes were often naval cadets or apprentices. Also a reference to his The Sea Whelps - his equivalent of The New Chum.Various minor corrections to the A Career At Sea page. 348 lines now. Added a few more Notable Achievements ie First (UK) Prisons' Ombudsman, Chief of Police Jerusalem in Palestine Police Force, Flotilla Vice Commander, 1st Southern District, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary and Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic

 

NotablesSolent BranchConway Songs & ChantsHMS Conway

A Career At Sea?.

7 Nov 2006

Updated details of other vesels named Conway.Added lots of book cover images and some new books to the Bibliography pages.Added Smith Line (Warrington Baden Powell's first company after Conway) 345 lines now. Completely revised the Notable OCs pages with lots of new entries.

Moved "Medals and Awards presented to Conways" from the Notables page to the "A Career At Sea?" page. Also added a small new section "Conway Commodores Of Cunard Line".

Other ConwaysBibliographyShipping lines etc.Notables

A Career At Sea?.

27 Oct 2006

Updated the list of OCs with web sites or mentioned on web sites, now only 43. Several removed and added to yesterday's list If you know of others let me know!

Added a new book by George Shearing (years not known) to Hot Off The Presses

OCs' Sites

Hot Off The Presses

26 Oct 2006

Major revision to the Friends page including a list of the new Trustees and photos of the chapel windows.Updated stuff For Sale by the Friends including a fantastic new commemorative plate and copies of Masefields' The Conway and New Chum. Get them before they go.

Added a few new finds to the list of OCs with web sites or mentioned on web sites, 51 now. If you know of others let me know!

FriendsFor Sale

OCs' Sites

6 Oct 2006    

Updated Conway Club page with new address for the Hon Sec.Added some new slang terms and an explanation of the motto.Removed list of links as modern search engines can find things much more quickly and keep them up to date.

Added Trident Tankers, The Wholesale Society ( of Tarawa, former Gilbert & Ellice Islands), Gray McKenzie, Dubai, Pilot - Jebel Dhanna, U.A.E, Pilot - Sidon, Lebanon to list of lines, removed duplicates - 344 now.

Club pageSlangLinks pageShipping lines etc

 

5 Oct 2006
How could I miss someone from my own term? Mea culpa. Four books by Michael Howorth and his wife Francis added to the Bibliography (Books By Conways)
4 Oct 2006

More shipping lines - 341 nowUpdated list of Trustees for the HMS Conway TrustBibliograph: Added two new "Hot Off The Presses" by OCs.Bibliography: 17 new books added taking the total to wel over 100.

Bibliography: added an analysis of the editons of Masefield's New Chum

shipping lines etcTrustHot Off The PressesNew Additions

Masefield's Books

20 Sep 2006

Add more shipping lines in which OCs have served - only 336 now (unless you know different), plus a few more notable achievements and other jobsRemoved old entries from the Notice Board

Updated Trust Committee members

shipping lines etcNoticeboard & Diary

Trust

19 Sep 2006
Apologies for the long gap since the last update. The webmaster has been flat on his back ill for the best part of the year. Firing on all cylinders now though! Lots of updates in the pipeline for the next couple of weeks. First update is to the Club Shop which has some new items for sale (marked NEW in red).
17 July 2005

Update to the The Conway Club Cruising Association page.

Added the Gold Award from the Maritime Web Awards to the home page.

cruising.html

index.html

16 July 2005

Various updates to Friends of the Conway info.

friends.html
news.html
friends_sub.html
sales.html

9th March 2005

Updated/added Golding, Hughes, Moody, Rankin and Woodhead.


Added new officers for Central Canada Branch

notable old conways

Central Canada Branch

1 March 2005
Update Conway Club Cruising Association page with latest newsletter.
9th February 2005

Major additions to the Ship's Log for HMS Winchester (Conway 2), including a new photo.

Added a few more modern days photos to the Loss of the Ship section to aid understanding.

5th January 2005

Major new entry added to the History section covering the Loss Of The Ship. It is in two parts: 1. A simple chronology of events produced by Alfie Windsor (64-68) and supported by over 200 photos. It takes the reader from the early discussions and planning of the move right up to the unexplained destruction of the ship by fire. He has consulted most of those onboard on the day, several spectators in small boats and lining the shore, and a variety of published accounts including the Committee of Inquiry's report.

2. An exhaustive analysis by Captain David Williams (49-51) of how physical conditions (wind and tide), navigational challenges and human actions combined to cause the loss of the ship. Supported by the investigations of oceanographers and a wealth of scientific, meteriological, tidal and other material, this is a definitive study of the very unusual physical factors unique to the Menai Strait which resulted in the loss of the ship.

Loss of the Ship

5th January 2005

Corrections to photos of the figurehead

 

Figurehead photos

20th December 2004

Added details of the 2004 dedication of the new window in the Conway Chapel and the Remembrance Day serviceCorrected details in the Relics section about the gun

Added the true story of the pinnace

New window in Chapel

see Field Gun and Pinnace

17th August 2004

Added updated info on the dedication and unveiling of the new window in the Conway Chapel to the Noticeboard and Friends of the Conway sections of the site.Updated an image description to correctly identify Howard Davies teching Navigation instead of Parry.Updated the second Anchor detail in the Relics section to reference the story of the recovery detiled on an external site.Fixed various typos in the Photographs section.Added info. on the 40th Anniversary reunion of the 1962 to 1965 era in September to the Noticeboard.

Added info. on a Scottish Night / Dinner being held by the Conway Club Scotland in November to the Noticeboard.

news.html
friends.html
photo_general.html
relics_artifacts.html
photo.html

25th June 2004

Fixed formatting, broken links etc. on Conway Club & News / Diary pages.

Also looked into search function returning a '409' error as of 16:00 hours when connecting to search.atomz.com. Appears to be a maintenance issue their end as problem resolved as of 18:00 hours GMT.

conway_club.html
news.html
search.html

23rd June 2004

Added 9 images of Plas Newydd to The Hutted Camp and Stone Frigate sections.Added 25 images to the Miscellaneous Section.Added 1 image of the Priory new window plate to the Friends of the Conway Section (Gallery ii).Added 2 images of the The Conway Public House to the Proud Tradition Continues... Section.Added 19 assorted images to the Relics & Artifacts Section.Added 4 images of Rock Ferry to The Mersey Years Section.

Added 22 images to The Bangor Years (The Ship) Section.

history_hutted.html
history_stone.html
misc.html
friends.html
tradition.html
relics_artifacts.html
history_mersey.html
history_bangor.html

18th June 2004

Added an image of Lt Ian Fraser VC, DSC, RD, RNR (1936-38) to the the Notable Conways page.

famous_conways.html

16th June 2004

Added 12 images to the the Loss of the Ship (The Next Day).Added 22 Miscellaneous images.

Added 20 images to the The Stone Frigate (New Block) section.

history_loss.html
misc.html
history_stone.html

15th June 2004

Added 19 images to the the Loss of the Ship (Platters Rock).Added 21 images to the the Loss of the Ship (Falling Tide).

Added 14 images to the the Loss of the Ship (Rising Tide).

history_loss.html

14th June 2004

Added 11 images to the the Loss of the Ship (Preperation).Added 15 images to the the Loss of the Ship (Tubular Bridge).Added 11 images to the the Loss of the Ship (Into The Swellies).Added 17 images to the the Loss of the Ship (Pryces Point).

Added 28 images to the the Loss of the Ship (Suspension Bridge).

history_loss.html

8th June 2004

Added images to the The Third HMS Conway page.Added an image to The Second HMS Conway page.Added 5 images from the House to The Hutted Camp & The Stone Frigate.Added 7 images from the Kelvin Block to The Hutted Camp & The Stone Frigate.

Added 2 images to the Loss of the Ship page.

history_third.html
history_second.html
history_hutted.html
history_stone.html
history_loss.html

7th June 2004

Updated the Cruising Club Association page.

cruising.html

4th March 2004

Changes in the Friends pages to add extra books for sale and to revise the Memorial Board subscription form.Added extra entries to bring us to 312 shipping lines and 119 shore based careers.Replaced the History, Dry Docking section with a ore accurate version.

Updated Relics entries for the Anchors, Models and Pinnace.

friends.html
sea_career.html
history_dry.html
relics_artifacts.html

18 February 2004

A total of 34 A4 pages of new material in this update. If you have more email them to:alfie@windsor-consulting.comA Career At Sea?  Added lots more Shipping Lines, careers and Unusual Achievements. Are yours included?Bibliography has new entries for So Long To Learn: A Personal Memoir by Bill Trowbridge OBE (46-48) Rock Ferry, New Ferry & Bebbington by Dave Mitchelson . The Changing Years by Rock   Ferry   Local History Group. The Antigone by Richard Woodman (??). New Chum by John Masefiled Miscellaneous lots more Slang, Motto and explanation of the cadets' numbering system.Notables added/revised Clutterbuck, Hughes, Shoesmith, Woodward

History has new anecdotes in various sections

sea_career.html
bibliography.html
misc.html
famous_conways.html
history_mersey.html
history_bangor.html
history_ashore.html
history_loss.html
history_tented.html
history_hutted.html
history_stone.html
history_closing.html

13 February 2004

Added a profile of Sir Clive Woodward

10 February 2004

Added details of a Cruising Club event at the RYA Cowes on May 5th 2004
04 February 2004

Added an additional 13 images of the huts to 'The Hutted Camp' in the History section.Added a note explaining how to attribute photo's of the Ship's movements through the Swellies to the 'Loss of the Ship' and 'Through the Swellies' pages in the History section.Added an additional 23 images of the Dock to 'The Hutted Camp' and 'The Stone Frigate' in the History section.

Added 19 images to the 'Friends of HMS Conway' section.

history_hutted.html
history_loss.html
history_swellies.html
history_stone.html
friends.html

04 February 2004

Added 7 images to 'The Closing' in the History section.Added an additional 14 images to 'The Mersey Years' covering the 19th Century in the History section.Added 38 images to 'The Loss of the Ship' covering the 'Aground' period.

Added 15 images to 'Bibliography' section.

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history_mersey.html
history_loss.html
bibliography.html

28 January 2004

Added 147 images to 'The Stone Frigate' in the History section.

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27 January 2004

Completed the 'Hutted Camp' section with the addition of a further 146 images.

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26 January 2004

Added new entry relating to Intervention In The American Civil War? in History Section, The Third HMS Conway (HMS Nile)Updated Notables with Admiral Sir Mark Pizey GBE CB SO DL and Lt Cdr F Booke Smith GC RD RNRFinal batch of 44 images added to Ashore & Afloat (only 998 left to go!).

Added 85 new images to 'The Hutted Camp' in the History section.

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famous_conways.html
history_ashore.html
history_hutted.html

23 January 2004

Added 80 new images to the History section under 'Ashore & Afloat' section.

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22 January 2004

Added 146 new images to the History section under 'The Bangor Years', 'The Mersey Years', 'Dry Dockings' and 'Through The Swellies'

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history_dry.html
history_mersey.html
history_swellies.html

21 January 2004

Updated Items For Sale with expanded information on HMS Conway Gazette Vol 1.Fixed corrupt thumbnail image of the new window design in Friends of The Conway.

Updated The Conway Club Cruising Association page with the latest information from the newsletter.

24 September 2003
Various updates including new HMS Conway artwork print in Sales and updates to the Bibliography and News sections.
12 August 2003
New and updated content in the following pages:
6 August 2003
Major re-work of site with new content, History section updated, new search facility and moved the Email List to a secure Yahoo! Group.
14 July 2003
Updated Friends of HMS Conway page to include details and designs of new commemorative window and how to donate, made the Memorial Board application form a printable form as the downloadable copy was too big.
Updated the Conway Merchant Navy Trust web site address.
1 July 2003
Updated Friends of HMS Conway page to include Memorial Board application form.
16 June 2003
Updated Friends of HMS Conway page to include new information, contact details and subscription costs.
10 October 2002
Reinstated the information on the third HMS Conway - HMS Nile, including an artists impression which was accidently removed.
2 October 2002
NEW IMAGES ADDED - Many thanks to the kind OC who spent much of their valuable time updating the Photo Thumbnails.
4 August 2002
Added Conway Song as a new page (lyrics and score are scanned images, details of purchasing original scrore is available on this page).
Cleaned up the Diary page.
25 June 2002

Updated the Conway Club Cruising Association page to reflect new contact information after the sad loss of John Robinson.

Also updated latest information about the Conway Club Cruising Association and added pictures of the Commodore's yacht.

Amended the Conway Ensign information to be current in A Proud Tradition Continues.
6 May 2002
Added new names to email list
20 & 21 April 2002
Added new names to email list
14 April 2002
Added new names to email list, lots of people trying to locate OC's
New page added detailing the 'CONWAY SONG'
Archived 2000 & 2001 Noticeboard and updated with new entry for May 2002.
Alphabeticised the Notable Conways, added a couple of names and a new section 'International Sportsmen'
Updated South African entry link
Amended the details about the Chat Line
Updated information on Conway Centre in a Proud Tradition
Added Stempost to Relics and Artifacts page
Various additions to the Bibliography
Added extra staff nicknames
Updated the Loss Of The Last Ship, The Closing and The Other Conways pages in the History section.
Vast amount of new information added to 'A day in the life..', including some humourous recollections...
Updated various new items on the Career at Sea pag
New information on the Friends of HMS Conway page
7 April 2002
Email lists completely up to date.
Added a couple of new OCs to the email list
6 January 2002
New Conway Chat Room recently launched
29 Dec 2001
Email list is completely up to date, including new names and updated entries
Extensive rework of the History section, including new pages of information.
New picture for sale in Items for Sale
Information on a forthcoming books by OC's
Added content to and updated and amended A Day in the Life...
Added content to Staff section
Added new links to the Links area
Added new personal sites and a couple of pleas for help
New entry in Relics: Fifes
Additions to the A Career at Sea - Notable Achievements
Updated and added to the Notable Conways
Added 'List of Changes to this Site' page, detailing every change made to the site this year.
21 Oct 2001
More OC's have been added to the Email Lists
30 Sep 2001
Ken Huggins has updated the Conway Club Pages
Ken Huggins has updated the Noticeboard and Diary section
Added more email addresses to the list.
12 Sep 2001
Finally updated email lists with various new email addresses, apologies to all those effected by delays to updating the site - problems beyond our control :(
5 Aug 2001

New 'Latest Updates' page added - should help users find updated/new information more quickly


Latest Updates
Included information on the The H.M.S."Conway" Trust Registered Charity No. 275366. HMS Conway Trust
Added a couple more names to the Email List Searching for Someone
Reworked the History section, including new content and changing the structure History
Added Sn Ldr 'Boy' Mould and made a few amends to the Notable Conway's page
Added some items to the slang dictionary in 'A Day in the Life', also added a content for the 'Last Years' sub-section.
New items in the 'Bibliography' and a bit of re-formatting.
Added a couple more personal sites to the 'Searching for Someone' page
Added various crys for help for information about OCs to the 'Searching for Someone' page - can you help?
Add new items to the 'Other Nautical Links' sub-section of the 'Links' page.
Updated information on the Conway Club Newsletter.
Content finally added to the 'Conway Club Cruising Association' page.
Updated information and added new headings in the 'Friends of HMS Conway' page, including the fact that the rescued gigs have been stolen.

2003 August

Site Complete rework and re-structure of the History section completed.
Moved Email List to a secure HMS Conway Yahoo! Group
Updated the search facility so that it is lot easier to use.
General re-coding and tidying up to reduce file size of larger HTML pages.

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2002 April

Site Major round of updates completed. Detailed completely below.

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2001 August

History Fuller entry about the Original HMS Conways
A Day In The Life Reformatted and several new features added 1941, 1946, 1949, 1953, 1954/55,1967 and 1971
Bibliography Added new 'Hot Of The Presses' section
Added: Cameos of the Holy Land, Farewell HK, several books by Prof Bil Trowbridge, Everybody's Magazine, The Mariner's Mirror, Port Dinorwic Sailing Club Newsletter
Notables Dennis Orme (53-55)
Relics Fifes
Searching For Somone New entries in 'Anyone...' and Email List
Staff Added entries for Mr Parry and Mrs Lord

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July 2001

A Day In The Life Added entries for 1970-72 and 1974
Bibliography Added: The Voyage Alone In The Yawl Rob Roy, The Illustrated Companion To Nelson's Navy and HMS Conway. A Short Account of my Period in Command, Sept. 1934- Aug. 1949
Conway Club Newsletter Editor is online!
Cruising Club First entry added
Friends Of The Conway Updated and re-vamped
History Split into a number of smaller sections,
New The Original HMS Conway(s)
Charles Darwin and the Conway see Late June 1835
New entries for 1941 and The Closing
Notables Added Iain Duncan Smith (68-72) plus photo and Sn Ldr 'Boy' Mould RAF DFC (approx 1930)
Noticeboard & Diary Several updates
Searching For Someone New entries in 'Anyone...', Personal Sites and Email List

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June 2001

History October 1953
Notables Cdr John D E Lewis RD RNR (30-33)
Searching For Someone New entries in 'Anyone...', Personal Sites and Email List

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May 2001

A Career At Sea Many new Shipping Lines and Notable Achievements
A Day In The Life The Camp
A Proud Tradition Continues David Austin Memorial Trophy
Bibliography Added: Dunedin Star, Geometry Of Navigation, The Review
History October 1953 and Summer 1956
Notables Added: Captain Donald Stewart (1920s), Alfred Wright Adcock (1898-9)
Searching For Someone New entries in 'Anyone...'

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April 2001

A Day In The Life More slang
A Proud Tradition Continues Conway Ensign
Bibliography Added Sphere Magazine 1961, The Crossing
History Sept 1934 entry added
Searching For Somone New entries in 'Anyone...', Personal Sites and Email List
Staff Added this new section, including nick names

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March 2001

A Proud Tradition Continues Walbran Valley
Bibliography Added An Eventful Year, The School That Jack Built and The Irish Flagship by Geoffrey Haskins (40-41)
History 1941 entries for Gordonstoun and Aberdovey
Noticeboard }
Conway Club Diary}
Revamped into a single entry

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Relics Conway stamp (St Kitts)
A Career At Sea Number of Admirals
A Day in The Life Entries for 1939-41 and 1964. Prince OF Wales School Nairobi
A Proud Tradition Continues Conway Reef and Fargus Literary Scholarship, University Of Bristol
Bibliiography Added Away To Sea, Battle Honours Of The Royal Navy, British Warship Names, Guide to British Naval Papers in North America, Skeleton Coast, Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, Navy News June 2000, Yorkshire Post
Conway Club Completely new entry
History, Other Conways Completely new entry
History 1st Ship Entries for 1830s/40s, 1816, 1822, 1837, 1838, 1840, 1856-60, 1914-18, 19221
History 2nd Ship Entries for 1834-38
History 3rd Ship Entries for 1856, 1876, pre WW II, 1939, 1940, 1941
History Stone Frigate Entries for 1971
Notable Conways Many new entries including James Moody.
Notice Board and Diary Lots of new entries
Relics New entries for Captain Webb Memorial Shield, Field Gun, Harley Memorial Shield, Log Book, Log Book (kept by Cadet David Norris), Model 4,
Searching For Someone New Cadet records entry
Misc Unofficial Conway song from 1947-49


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Updates in 1999


Updates in 1998
 
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