Conway Club - added details of the Officers and Committee for 2010

Diary

Removed past dates from the main diary list.

Added latest list of those registering interest in the Tasmania Reunion.

Added four new evenst for the Australia West Branch.

Home Page

Added details of Plas Newyyd Spode Plate for sale at a special discount price.

Updated the link to the Maritime Web Awards site, Check it out, it has lots of fascinating links - www.stevesmaritime.com/award1.html

For Sale

Updated items for sale by The Friends, including mounted sections of rivet from the ship.

Friends Of HMS Conway

Added details of the Plas Newyyd Spode Plate for sale at a special discount price,

Provided a new order form for those wishing to add commemorative nameplates to the Conlon Window.

Added details about the full set of The Cadet magazines they hold and how you can obtain copies.

Image Archive

I was sure we would soon break the 6,000 entries barrier and suddenly we have. The archive now has 6,547 entries! There are too many new photos and albums affected to list them all here so they are in the Accessions album as usual.

Art Gallery deserves a mention. It has been completely restructured to group entries into albums for each known artist. In a few cases I have included the original photo from which the painting was copied. There's a large new gallery for "Gabby" King's work. You may find the Russell Flint album interesting as that also contains photos of him preparing for the painting shown. Special albums are provided for unknown artists of drawings, cartoons and paintings.

Notables

Added Conway years 1912-14 to Rear Admiral Ronald Gordon Murray RN CBE CB one of our 27 Admirals.

Added our 22nd shipping company commodore - Commodore Haddock of White Star Line. Also updated his main entry.

Small Boats

Added new information about the first use of the Fifes and the MSODs.

 

Image Archive

Split the rugby album into separate albums for each team viz 1st XV to 4th XV, Colts and Bantams. Added Rugby Slop Chest. Click here.

In the process of adding 200 new images - watch this space...

A Career At Sea?

Added Nauru Pacific Lines (Nauru) thanks to Capt Dick Ridsdale (61-63), and Buries Markes thanks to Dave Collick (Fxl 55-57) giving 807 shipping company

Bibliography

Added The Book of British Ships by Lieutenant Frank Henry Mason RNVR, RBA, RI (1880-82) and three books by Cris Ebbs (62-64) about caving in Clwyd, Wales. Added BP Apprentices' Newsletter Coronation Year Issue in the Magazines section. It carried an article by 2nd Officer GAB King on the loss of the Ship.

Chief Cadet Captains

Added a link to the appropriate Image Archive photo album

Conway Club Solent Branch

Added a link to their web site, click here. Includes details of their events and photos.

Diary

Added reminder to the Home Page that the Friends have their AGM at the RMYC on November 6th and the Annual Service of Remembrance at the Chapel on 7th.

2010 NW Branch's Spring Annual dinner - timed to coincide with the Thanksgiving Service for 'Our Old Wooden Mother' at the Conway Chapel on March 7th.

Reunion - 2010 Tasmania: Click here for the latest hotel details, an outline of anticipated costs and some new photos. Also provided a list of the 50 OCs already signed up; that means at least 100 attendees so this is event is definitely going ahead.

Reunion - 2011 Singapore CWP Reunion Click here for details including current attendees list.

For Sale

The Solent Branch have a few items for sale click here for details. Also added the link to the main Shop pages

Nursing Staff & Sick Bay

Added Sister Zptumska who left Apr 54 (started ?) and was replaced by Sister Griffiths. Added a new album for images of nursing staff and sick bays - click here

OCs' "Personal" Web Sites

Now 170 entries after adding:

1880-82 Frank Henry Mason RBA RI also here and here!

1907-09 Captain W.H. Coombes

1909-11 W G Hiscock

1915-17 Blair Hughes Stanton also here

1921-23 Christopher Briggs also here

1936-39 James Butterfield

1938-39 C D Thorpe

1939-40 Lt Cdr A J Preston RCN

1961-64 Neville Campbell Hall

1962-64 Cris Ebbs

Royal Indian Marine

Added photo of one of their vessels RMIS Lawrence in 1906 and a new useful link.

Chief Cadet Captains

New page added listing the names of CPOs and CCCs by year. You may be able to fill in the odd gap.

Conway & Titanic

Updated this page with details of a member of staff (Ernie Lee) who was involved at a distance. Also provided clarifications confirming that Titanic's 2nd Officer Lightoller and 5th Officer Lowe were not OCs even though Conway Record Books show cadets with the same names of the right vintage.

Diary

Updated the entry for the Tasmania reunion with details of the programme, a new hotel and an expression of interest form. I believe around 30 have already signed up.

Gold Medal Winners

New page added listing the award criteria, a photo of the award board, a link to the Image Archive album of gold medal related photos and a list all recipients.

Notables

Added appropriate photos for Baker, Campbell, Garstin, Gurdon, Huddleston, Knowles, Ling, Perceval, Robinson and Stephan. All entries now have a photo (I think this is my favourite part of the web site).

Royal Indian Marine / Royal Indian Navy

Added a new page tracing the history of Conway's very close association with the RIM/RIN, including a list of OCs who served in the RIM/RIN. With thanks to Geoffrey Haskins (40-43) for the original idea and material. Next project will be the Bengal Pilot Service.

Nursing Staff & Sick Bay

Added a few more names and dates, and details of the various shore based sanatoriums.

PS the next update will be of 200 new photos but not for a few days!

Diary

Deleted old Diary dates. Added:

2009 November 15th Scottish Branch Dinner at the Royal George Hotel, Perth.

2009 November 20th - SW Branch Luncheon, Plymouth Naval Base, HMS Drake, 1130hrs for 1200hrs latest.

This year's London BBQ will be in HQS Wellington (Floating livery hall of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners. A great venue with fantastic river and city views http://www.chesterboyd.co.uk/venues/wellington/index.php

A Career At Sea?

Now 805 shipping companies The 800th was Gellaty, Hanker & Co - Old Conway H F Nash (00-02) was 2nd Officer in their ship Pathan in 1908. Also added Aitken Lilburn & Co, Alexander & Co, American Hawaiian Co, Argentinian Navy, Atlantic Transport Service Company, Bengal Coal Co, Beynon & Co, Blue Anchor Line, Brett & Beaufroy, British African Company, British Columbia Salvage Association, Broderson & Broy, Burma Government Marine, Calcutta River Survey Service, Ceylon Imperial Lighthouse Service, Chadwick & Wainwright, Claude Ferrier & Sons, Crow Rudolph & Co, Cuban Navy, E P & W Roberts (Liverpool), E T Gourlay (Sunderland), Egyptian Mail Steamship Co, Elderslie Steam Ship Co, F C Street (London), French Navy, G Heyn & Sons, Glyn & Sons, Government Lake Service BEA, GovernmentTelegraph Service, Guthrie (London), H A S Bond (New Zealand), Hargreaves, Ferguson & Jackson, Horsley & Co, Inver Line, J Houston & Co, J Windrup & Co, J T Rennie & Son, James Cornfoot & Co, Joyce & Co, Karren & Co, Lang & Fulton, Liverpool & Glasgow Salvage Association, London Marine Steamship Co, Northern Pacific Steamship Co, R Thomas & Co, R Owen, Rock Line, Royal East African Navy, S R Graves & Sons, San Francisco, Oaklands & San Jose Ferry Service, Seivewright & Bacon's River Plate Steamers, Southern Nigerian Marine, T Benyon & Co, T Shute & Co, Thom & Cameron (Glasgow), Thomas & Co (Liverpool), Thomas Dixon & Sons (Belfast),Thompson Dickie & Co, Tyrer & Co, Ugandan River Service, Union Line (New Zealand), Vale Steamship Co, W Lewis & Co, West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Co, Windram & Co

Now 37 harbourmasters with addition of Hartlepool and Malacca.

Now 84 maritime training establishments with the addition of Navy League Sea Training School, Liscard (Superintendent) and the RIN Midshipmen School.

I've split the old 'Uniformed Service's into 'Armed Forces Units' and "Emergency services' so  

Now 189 armed forces' units with the addition of Cape Mounted Rifles, Cuban Navy, DCO Yeomanry, Honourable Artillery Company, Imperial Yeomanry, Indian Army Medical Service, Kimberley Town Guard, Kings Own Scottish Borderers, Lovat Scouts, Lumsden’s Horse, Pembroke Artillery, Royal Dublin Volunteers, Royal East African Navy, Royal West African Frontier Force, South Lancashire Militia, Suffolk Volunteers and the US Army (Heavy Field Artillery)

Split emergency/uniformed services from armed forces' units to create a new list with 48 entries.

Bibliography

Added Adventures of Captain Kettle, The Cruise of the Imperial Eagle, Dramatic Lyrics, Enchantments, Erina, Man of Mafeking: The Bechuanaland Years of Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams (1884-1901), Sir Hamilton John Goold-Adams (1858 – 1920), Speed & Consumption of Steam Ships and Warlike Exploits of the Merchant Navy - see Accessions.

Updated British Columbia Place Names, The Conway Manual and The Wood Engravings of Blair Hughes-Stanton.2007 Central Canada.html

In Memoriam

Other Campaigns - added Bechuanaland, 2nd Matabele Campaign (1899) and the Crimean War

Awards - added Cross of St Vladimir with Swords (Russia), Distinguished Order of St Michael & St George, Khedive’s Bronze Cross, Matablele Campaign 1898 Medal, Queen’s Egyptian Expedition Medal 1882, South African War Transport Medal

Notables

Admirals added note that Rear Admiral H S F Niblett (1896) was the first OC to achieve Flag Rank

Commodores added Ceylon Imperial Lighthouse Service - G Stapleton (1881-82) and Orient Steam Navigation Co - Capt J J Ruthven 1864-65.

Notables Added new entries for Lt Patrick S Campbell RN (1906-1911), Captain Richard Garstin OBE, CBE RIN (00/02), Mr John Gurdon (1876-78), Capt W B Huddleston RIM (1880-82), Captain Eustace Oliver Knowles, OBE, RE (previously RIM) (08-09), Captain John Thurston Ling OBE, Gp Capt Basil Vernon Robinson DSO DFC RAF (28-29) , Lt Vincent Stephen RNAV (1867-68).

Relics

Updated the entries for the Field Gun and Lectern. Added Communion Table.

Small Boats

Added "the Barge" a 16 oared Cutter (1883 to 19?? - at least 1910).

Added “Dolly-Tub” the water boat on the Mersey from 9th March 1908 to 1913.

Added "Inknoo" a sailing yacht circa 1908.

Added Motor Boat "The Launch" 18?? to at least 1905.

Added Skiff " Mina" (19?? to 1912)

Updated entries for the Fifes. Inyala and River Class Dinghies

Staff

I had thought that John Brooke-Smith, with 32 years service, was our longest serving member of staff but I now find he was beaten into second place by Mr George Hunt with 37 years as Instructor and Gunner - he retired in 1916. TEW Browne, Headmaster from 1935 to 1964 ranks third- with 30 years service.

Management Committee Hon Sec., added C P Grylls for Oct 1899.

Padres: added or updated entries for the Revs Dickenson, Parker, Hobson and Spink.

Nursing Sisters: added this new list. It is far from complete but, with your help, will doubtless improve over time.

Members of Staff: I've been building up a stack of changes to this list for quite some time and have finally got round to adding Nurse Adams, Mr Aitken, Mr Allott, Mr Blanshard, Mr Blomfield, Mr Brady, Mr Burtitt, Mr Chipp, Ms F Coppack, Mr J A Creighton, Bill Davies, Thomas Dobson, Mr F W Ebdon, Professor Eeckies, Lt H A Edwards RNR, Nurse Fillingham, Mr Finch, Mr Gavin, Mr Gough, Mr Graham, Mr C E Green, Mr Hague, Mr Hampson , Miss I E Haws, Moses Hunt, James Hunt, Mr Percy Jones,Mr Kidley , Mr McNaught , Mr Mackness, Mr V G Le Mesurier, Miss C Lendrum, Mr Marchant, Mons. Meunier, Mr H J Moon, Mr James Morgan, Mr Mylroi, Mr Naylor, Mr J Oakley, Mr Patterson, Mr Ping, Mr Pullen, Mr Ransome, Mr G H Savage, Mr Scudder , Mr Sneath, Mr Jas Stuart, Mr Howell Thomas, Mr Thrower, Mr Viner, Mr Wagner, William Warbis, Mr Weatherhead, Captain James Williamson, Mr Wood and Mr Wykes.

 

A Career At Sea? added Houston Line, Hector Whaling Co, Scottish Shire Line, Scottish Tankers, Santa Fe International and Shallow Draft Bulk Carriers (Nassau) to list of Shipping Companies to give 739 in total

Bibliography added A Love of Ships by Captain G A B King (Second Officer 52-53) and Castle Class Corvettes by N Goodwin (39-40)

Diary 2010 Nov Hobart (Australia) Get Together click here for details - quite a few have signed up already.

Added possible 2011 Singapore International CWP Reunion. Please let Nick Goodwin know if you are interested.

I made a real pig's ear of the last general update to the Diary pages. I've made loads of corrections so please check them again - almost every new entry had something wrong with it!

Image archive VERY BIG UPDATE - Added 363 new images to give us 5,961 all told but I have hundreds more loaned to me at the 150th. It takes about 4 minutes to scan, format, classify, store and check each image so it may take me a while to do them all! If I have some of your images please be patient - they are safe and I'll do them asap. To save visits to all the changed albums all new images are spread (somewhat randomly I'm afraid) across Accessions 1 & Accessions 2 as usual. Anyway, this update has:

New images for the 150th Anniversary weekend (Cruise embarkation, PN visit and Socialising), New images for the years 1800s, 1905, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1917, 1930, 1932, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1953 Loss of the Ship (albums 12 to 16 including 14 new newspaper cuttings), 1955, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1974.

New images for the Themed albums for Art gallery (Cartoons), Art Gallery (Named Artists), Art Gallery (Un-named Artists), Athletics, Band, Boxing, Cadet Captains, Captain Superintendents, Crests & Badges, Cricket, Dock, Gigs, Gold Medal Winners, Mountaineering, No 2, Notables, Passing Out Certificates, Pinnace, Plas Newydd, QBs, Reunion of 64-68 cadets in 2004, Rugby, Sailing, Ship's Company,Shooting, Staff, Tour of the Kelvin Block, Tour of the House, Tour of Rock Ferry, Tour of the Ship (Decks), Tour of the Ship (Hull & Masts),

Added lots of images of sports colours to the Crests album and lots of new shots of other Ship inside and out (see Tour of the Ship albums)

New albums for 1900,1911, 1912, 1914, 1918, 1920, 1927, 1929,1951 Hold Standing Orders, Tug of War.

In Memoriam pages added two new campaigns and two new medals.

Notables pages updated with two obituaries for Vice Admiral Sir David Clutterbuck DSC KBE CB RN (1926-29) and a photo of him. Also added a photo of Capt L Brooke-Smith (now you can see where Brookie gets his looks)

Small Boats added new entries for Cariad, Eureka, Eureka II, Inyala, Rivers Class dinghies and White Witch - all 1904-1935ish. Updated the entry for Flame with a long article from The Cadet. Photos in the Sailing album.

Staff minor update to the list of Padres. Rev C F Crichton MA RNVR joined in July 1926 but his leaving date is not known he was still serving in Easter 1927 as there is a photo in The Cadet. Rev D B Hall was in place from April 1928 but there seems to have been another incumbent for a while between Easter 27 and Apr 28.

The Conway (Canadian emigrant clipper ship) was built by Owens and Duncan at Portland, St John, New Brunswick, Canada and launched in 1871. She was abandoned at sea in 1875 at Latitude 45N and Longitude 44W, with her crew being rescued by the German barque, Schiller (Golstein).Dr Harley Stanton has been researching her voyages and passengers for many years and would appreciate the help if anyone who knows anything of this vessel. Details are here.

150th Anniversary Reunion pages have been extensively updated. There are now 480 photos in the various albums and five video clips. I've added some new photo albums and every existing album has new entries. I've also added a number of documents but didn't actually include the full seating plan list. If you have extra material, especially video clips please email them to me click here.

Image Archive therefore now has 5,610 images. I've 350 more (historical rather than of reunions) ready ready to load and many more waiting to be scanned so we'll break the 6,000 barrier very soon.

150th Weekend added a few new Reviews and comment - all marked New!

A Career At Sea? updated list of maritime training establishments with Zenith Maritime Training (USA) the 82nd entry (note OCs have trained the full set of Dartmouth, Worcester, Pangbourne, Botha and Dufferin)

Bibliography Completely revised the format to include images of front covers and added about 20 new books as well as new information about many existing books. Too much change to itemise it all here but I think it look much more interesting now. Of particular interest will be the Book "More Than Shadows: A Biography of Sir William Russell Flint, P.R.W.S., R.A" by Arnold Palmer witha copy of the actual painting. It's in the second section "Books With Conway Content"

Image Archive: now has 5,331 images after adding a new album "Art Gallery - Russell Flint" containing images and information about a watercolour of the Ship painted by this very well known painter whose son was an OC. A copy of the painting is included.

Diary added lots of new events in the UK and abroad for this year and 2010. Too many to list individually so I suggest you take a look at what's happening in your area.

OCs with personal sites added the following to give 163 entries:

Years not known David Yell

1886-88 Percy Stowell

1947-49 Anthony Harold MacKenzie Thurgood

 

Image Archive updated so we now have 5,286 images. New and updated albums for 150th weekend are here. I've also added many new images for the years 1880, 1899, 1925, 1934, 1937, 1945, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1968 and 1971. Also added a variety of other photos including the interior of one of the surviving huts still in use on the island, several new "How We Look Today's and several underwater shots of the wreck. As usual all new images are also in Accessions. I brought back around another 250 old photos and programmes from the 150th weekend. It will, take me a while to scan,title, index and load them all so watch this space. If you lent me images to be returned, they are safe in my very deep in-tray and will find their way back to you as soon as I can do them.

Diary removed past entries and added advance notice of the 2010 AGM and Dinner Dance at Waltham Abbey (it's also the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Conway Club) click here

Friday October 16th 2009. Luncheon 1200hrs -Ye Olde Bridge Inn, Nottingham Rd, Oxton, Southwell, Notts.
www.foodanddrinkguides.co.uk
£12.00pp, Contact Tom Mason 01623 462478, tom.mason41@ntlworld.com

150th added several new comments on the weekend and a review of the 50-51/Near Terms Dinner.

150th News: Added lots of new comments all marked New!, have published the first set of albums in the photo archive, (181 photos so far) and added two sets of professional photographs you will want to view. Click here.

Image Archive updated with 100 new images giving 5,250 in total.They are in the Accessions folder as usual. I have a hundred or so more to load that were delivered at the 150th weekend. Watch this space.

150th News: That was a most memorable weekend. I will be adding a more structured report soon but first reports are here. Photos are here, look under Reunions 150th..... Please email your photos to me so I can add them. I particulalry want images of the photo display - I was so busy doing it I forgot to take any photos! Name individuals as best you can. The official photographer will be sending me a cd of his full photos of the weekend - probably many hundreds, if not thousands.

In Memorium added Benin Punitive Expedition 1897 and Candia Landings (Crete) 1898 to the list of campaigns.

This is my final update before the 150th weekend click here for details

I don't have the final list of attendees but I understand we are at 786!

The Friday night year/term dinners are:

- "Ship" Cadets Drinks: Not sure of numbers but it is at least 18.

- 1950-52 Dinner: 16 people have booked for this dinner (11 OCS).

- 1952-54 Years Dinner: 83 have booked (44 OCs). Click here to see a list of those attending

- 1955-57 Years Dinner: 92 people attending a dinner at Liverpool marina. Click here to see a list of those attending..

- 1959-61 Dinner: 25 people have booked for this dinner (16 OCS).

- 1959 Year Dinner: 59 people have booked for this dinner (33 OCS). Click here to see a list of attendees.

- 1958-61 Dinner: Click here to see a list of attendees.

- 1960-62 dinner: 55 attendees (34 OCs). Click here to see a list of attendees.

- 1964-68 dinner: 108 attendees - 56 OCs. Click here for a list of names and details.

Photo Exhibition, Silver & Artifacts Display

Photo Display About 5,100 photos all told will be on display - approx 100 yards of display!

Artifacts There is a special display of mementoes and artifacts. If you have any mementoes, artifacts, chum books, QB books, uniform items, oar blades, photos etc., bring them along to the Pearce Room on Friday afternoon so we can display them for the weekend. We have a secure room and it will be manned during opening hours.

The Conway Silver from the RN Museum Plymouth will be on display prior to it moving to the Conway Chapel at Birkenhead.

Help!!

We still need a few more volunteers to spend an hour on Sunday babysitting the silverware dispay and artifacts dispay alongside the photo exhibition. Current Watch List is below if you can spare an hour please contact Alfie Windsor Email - alfie@hmsconway.org Phone - +44 (0)7703 599 220

Diary & News 150th Celebrations 64-68 dinner now 105 attendees (55 OCs) click here to see a list of attendees and for details of the event.

Image Archive now has 5,066 entries after removing a few duplicates and adding new images for 1880, 1899, 1934, 1937, 1945, 1952, 1956 (Ship burning), 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1971, 2009. Also new entries in the Art gallery (named artists), Staff (Brookie), Crests (1905-06) and HMS Winchester as Mt Edgcumbe.The full set of new images can be seen in Accesssions. There are some new Albums:

- 1958 Prize List

- 1959 Prize List

- 1959 Centenary Parents' Service

- 1964 Term Programme

- 1964 Sports Day Programme

- 1964 Summer Prize Day Programme

- Entrance Exam papers (bet you can't do them now)

Diary & News 150th Celebrations updated with the latest list of attendees for the:

- 60-62 dinner now 55 attendees (34 OCs) click here to see a liust of attendees.

- 64-68 dinner now 102 attendees (52 OCs) click here to see a list of attendees and for details of the event.

- 69-74 dinner: There are 23 people attending from these years but because of year overlaps they are rolling into the 64-68 do. Check the list above. To attend contact Phil Nicholls Email - Phil@yachtprojects.net

Diary & News 150th Celebrations updated:

- 64-68 dinner on the Friday now has 93 attendees (49 OCs). Not too late to book for this one! Click here for the latest list.

Diary & News 150th Celebrations updated:

- The Adelphi is now full - well over 700 people attending the weekend. Mim is not taking any further bookings for accommodation. There are still spaces for the dinner but the seating plan, once completed, will not be changed and any late comers will have to sit where there is space.

- 64-68 dinner on the Friday now has 91 attendees (48 OCs). Not too late to book for this one! Click here for the latest list.

- Not too late to book for the other years/term dinner there's a list here

- News of the photo exhibition click here for details.

Home page updated with a copy of the Conway crest 1905-06. Also added details of the July edition of the Nautilus International Telegraph which has a special two page feature about Conway's 150th anniversary written by Michael Howorth (64-67). Keep watching their website to download a copy: Click here

Notables: Added new entries for the Craven-Phillips brothers and for Pilot Officer George Edward Bowes Stoney, RAF (1927-28) a hurricane pilot killed during the Battle of Britain. His entry includes a sound clip.

A Career At Sea? added Canadian Marine Drilling as our 720th shipping company - thanks to J.E.(Mike) Williamson. Mizzentop (51-53)

Bibliogrpahy added Sea Breezes and The Admiralty Hydrographic Service, 1795-1919 by Vice Admiral Archie Day RN KBE CBE CB DSO (1913-14), Bamboo Years by John G Pike and The Conway Heroes by Canon Bob Evans.

Diary & News150th Celebrations updated:

NEW 1950 - 52 Dinner: Open to anyone who was a cadet in those years. Probably a meal after the "Ship" Cadets Drinks. Please spread the word and contact Peter Bobbin (58-61) Email: peter@peterbobbin.co.uk

1964-68 dinner now has 78 attendees (41 OC) see click here

Reminder: June 21st Sunday - Memorial service at 1100hrs at the Conway Chapel dedicated to all Old Conways who crossed the bar in the preceding 12 months.

"The short service which we hope will become an annual event will remember all Old Conways who died recently. Close family members of the deceased will be most welcome at the service."  Anyone wishing to join the Trustees for the service should contact one of the undermentioned who will be available to give advice on directions etc. Light refreshments will be available following the service.
Contacts: Geoff Cowap on 01257-462113 email: geoffcowap@btinternet.com
David Nutman on 0161-355-9630 email: dnbnutman@talktalk.ne

In Memoriam added 1945-48 Palestine and 1957 the "Yangtse Incident" to the list of other conflicts in which OCs have served. Added Order of St Anne With Crossed Swords “for Bravery” (Russia)

Notables: added new/better entries for:

Vice Admiral Sir Archie Day RN KBE CBE CB DSO (1913-14)

Rear Admiral RW Mayo RN CB CBE (1923-25). My thanks to Peter Shepherd ( Maintop 54-57) for the information.

Shop minor increase ot Postage & Packing charges.

Diary & News updated

CORRECTION!

UK - East Midlands Branch

-  June 17th 2009 . Summer Luncheon at the 'Ye Olde Bridge Inn' Nottingham Road Oxton.

Click here for more details

150th Celebrations: 1959 leavers dinner currently has 54 attendees

Diary & News updated:

150th Celebrations:

1952-54 Years Dinner: There are currently 83 people booked for this dinner and the room can only accommodate 7 more so get your skates on!

1960-62 Years Dinner: There are currently 50 people booked for this dinner (29 OCs).

1964-68 Years Dinner: There are currently 68 people booked for this dinner (37 OCs). Click here to join this dinner, see a list of those attending and for details.

A Career At Sea? 

Thanks to Kenneth C Robinson (67-70) for South Pacific Tuna Corp (San Diego).

 

Also added Bethel Gwyn & Co, Campbell Findlay & Co (Greenock), E R Peel & Co, Garmouth, J Boyd, J Hardy & Co, J Mulhall, Milton Stuart Shipping Co, the Royal Victorian Navy and Steeves & Co giving 719 shipping companies.

 

The RVN also becomes our 196th uniformed service. Time to make a dash to 200 - anyone able to help?

Diary & News updated:

150th Celebrations:

NEW 1958 - 61 Dinner: Open to anyone who was a cadet in those years. Please spread the word and contact Mike Sanders (58-61) Hold. Phone (Home) 0131 445 3117 or (Mobile) 07841 160105 Email: mikersanders@hotmail.com

HOT OF THE PRESSES! Sea Breezes June edition has a special feature about Conway's 150th anniversay written by Michael Howorth (64-67). We feature on the front cover! Click here

Diary & News updated:

150th Celebrations: latest attendance list is here - over 600 now!

1st June is the cut off date to be sure you are included in the seating plan, attendeance list etc. and after that date special hotel rates cannot be guartentee so BOOK NOW.

NEW 1969-74 Dinner: Open to anyone who was a cadet between 1969 and 74. Dinner will be followed by a tour of local pubs led by Robb Tubb, ending back in the hotel bar. Contact Phil Nicholls Email - Phil@yachtprojects.net

Don't forget to contact the organisers for the other term/year dinners on the Friday night.

Added two events for the UK - East Midlands Branch

-  June 7th 2009 . Summer Luncheon at the 'Ye Olde Bridge Inn' Nottingham Road Oxton.

-  January 15/16/17 2010 Christmas/Winter Weekend. Main dinner Saturday 16th. The winter weekend is again being held at The Angel and Royal, Grantham, Lincs.

Diary & News updated:

Diary & News updated:

- HOT NEWS! June 24th the London Branch and Iain Duncan Smith have arranged an evening Reception at the House of Commons.

- The 1961 Reunion in 2011 is open to anyone who left the Ship in 1961.

NewScottish Branch event: Sunday 10th May 2009 Spring Meeting & Luncheon at the 'Roman Camp' Country House Hotel in Callander. Click here for details.

Club Shop: please note the shop wil be closed from 26th April to the 26th May 2009 due to holidays. Orders received during that period will be dealt with after 26th May.

New page: The HMS Conway Coffee Shop @ Plas Newydd. The National Trust have refurbished our old mess deck in the Nelson Block and it is now themed as the HMS Conway Coffee Shop. Click on the link above for a description and photos (which are also in a new themed album in the Conway Today series).

A Career At Sea?  Thanks to Ian Robertson (52-54) and Ian McRae (61-63) we now have 708 shipping companies (Anthony & Bainbridge (Newcastle), North Star Shipping and Monroe Brothers ( Liverpool)). Thanks to Allan Sutherland (1943-45) for our 35th Harbourmaster - Eden (Australia).

The Conway Cruising Association has a new Hon Sec M.J.Hewitt . Phone: 01492680212.          Email: postmaster@jimhewitt.plus.com

Diary & News updated entries for NW branch events on May 20th and July 15th.

Small Boats added more info about the surviving Fifes and MSoDs. Also updated the Relics pages.

150th Anniversary Reunion Added the latest list of attendees and a new booking form at http://hmsconway.org/2009TheBigOne.html

Opening of the Conway Coffee Shop at Plas Newydd on 29th March - see the home page

150th Anniversary Reunion  If you haven't booked yet you need to do it soon. This is going to be the biggest Conway event since 1974. There's a tremendous programme of events and a booking form at http://hmsconway.org/2009TheBigOne.html

A Career At Sea? We've broken another barrier, now 705 entries in the list of shipping companies after adding Vroon Offshore Services (Aberdeen) thanks to Peter O'Donnell Mz 66/68, and Doure & Co, Ducal Line, Fernie Brothers,Finlay & Co, Nicholson & McGill, Peel Shipping, S M Steves, Sierra Line and Thomas Beel & Son from old Cadet magazines. Added our 34th Harbourmaster - Forth Ports.

Ensigns & Crests: In response to discussions in  the chat group about Conway ensigns and crests I have added an explanation of the various items to the Slop Chest pages.

Diary added details of monthly get togethers lunchtime on 3rd Wednesday of every month at the Royal Oak Hotel, Melbourne.

Image Archive now has 5,030 entries. The 123 new entries are for 1866, the 1890s, 1902-07, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1964. 1966, 1967, 1968, 1972 plus several for the Art Gallery. New Themed albums for 1904, 1905, Bell, Wheel, Captain Superintendents, Cromlech, Gold Medal Winners and Headmasters. Copies are in the year and Theme albums, and as usual all new entries can all be found in Accessions.

Notables added a new shipping company Commodore - W E Williams (1939-41) of Canadian Pacific

Relics - updated the binnacles section and the related photo album. There are now 9 entries!

A Career At Sea?: Now 695 entries after adding Central Shipping, Manila, (thanks to Jon Elliott (60/62), Islamic Republic Of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) Teheran, Marrs of Hull (thanks John Webber (49-51), Sin Chiao Shipping, Singapore and lots of new lines from the late 1800s. I'm aiming for 700 entries could yours be the one?

Ashore page in History section updated with details about the House. You might be able to help with missing details about the location of the various dormitories.

Bibliography - added several new books and magazine articles, including the excellent new biography of Gus Bonner VC. Also added details of Conway references in Masefield's Sard Harker

Club page updated with:

-  Solent branch's own web site at http://www.hmsconwaysolent.co.uk/index.html

-  Club committee members for 2009.

-  Full list of Branches and contact details.

Diary page added new 2009 events for the Central Canada, East Midlands, Friends, London and Solent, an update to the 2009 150th celebrations and a change to the NW branch's summer ladies' lunch on 17th July.

For Sale: added three new items available from the Club shop - a ballpoint pen made of teak from the Ship, a new print and a golf style umbrella.

Friends of HMS Conway page updated including new events for 2009. Of particular interest is a special service in June in memory of those OCs who crossed the bar in 2009. It is hoped this will become an annual event.

Image Archive now has 4,917 entries. New entries are for 1951, 52, 59, 62, 63 and thanks to Pete Ransome for his 66-68 images. Three new How We look Now for Cornock, Robinson and Shannon. Added new albums for Silver. All new images are in Accessions. Added a new "Binnacles" album to go with the new section in the Relics pages.

Personal Web Sites - added 1967-70 Robin Bradford, 1952-54 R Methven and 1964-67 Michael Howorth 2 giving us 161 entries.

Relics - added a new section describing the 6 binnacles.

Staff pages updated with more details about the life of Mr Ron (Bomber) Bradley 1971-73

A Career At Sea?: added Energy Mines & Resources (Canada) and Fisheries & Oceans (Canada) thanks to J Kearsey (59-62) we now have 666 shipping companies. Thanks to E. Worthington we've added our 57th pilot - Atlantic Pilotage Authority ((Halifax and other ports in Nova Scotia). testtest

The History of Conway Book page updated with lots of reviews.

Past events removed from Diary pages. Added new page for the Australia/NZ reunion in Nov 2008. Photos will be added in due course.

A new Figurehead page (accessible from the Relics pages) shows the best images I can find of the original figurehead and of the making and masting of the new one in 1937/8. There are links to the various image albums of the figurehead.

How We Look Today - added Chris Brazier (51-53), Paul Baxter (61-64) and the Davies brothers.

Image Archive has 513(!) new images this month - all are in the Accessions albums as usual. We now have 4,883 images all told. We could make 5,000 by the New Year if you send me yours.....

New theme albums are Advertisements, Conway Certificates, Conway & Titanic (linked form Notables), Prospectuses from 1919, 1936, 1952 and 1959, Sextant Clases, Tour of the Rock Ferry playing fileds, Tour of the Strait at PN, to Bangor and to PD,

New photos are mainly in 1960-64 (thanks particularly to Paul Baxter (61-64) and Chris Puxley (61-64), but also some from 1919-21, 1935, 1941, 1951 and 1953. There are even new ones of the loss the Ship (a tug making for Menai Bridge Pier and more offloading shots)

I've created a whole new set of albums for Documents this wil grow as there are lots more to add.

In Memoriam updated with new pages for "Lifesaving Awards" (a list of the awards granted to OCs and profiles of several recipients) and a list of wars, campaigns, expeditions etc. in which OCs participated.

Notables: added a new entry for the 8th Earl Egmont.

Personal Web Sites - added 1961-64 Chris Puxley as the 158th entry.

John Perry's autobiography added to the home page

A Career At Sea?: Now 662 shipping companies and 136 entries to the list of jobs ashore.

Album - Art Gallery split into three: Named Artists, Unknown Artists and Cartoons.

Album - Crests, Badges & Ensigns updated the entries for the "Castle Crest' and Ensigns

Album - Conway 2 As Edgcumbe: added a new photo of Conway II (ex Winchester) being broken up in 1921.

Album - Covers of the Cadet magazine album revised to show that the "Mauve Shoesmith" cover was adopted in 1919 to replace the "Green Telescope" version, and that the "Red Shoesmith" cover was adopted from August 1932 (see page 278 of that edition). It seems to have remained in use until 1946 except for the 1939 "Red Centenary" cover' edition. If you have covers different to those shown please email me.

Album - Ship Deck Plans I've completed re-loaded these images as many people couldn't download them.This album contains very large and incredibly detailed plans of every square inch of the Ship. You can see full plans of each deck, or sections of each deck. They are best downloaded and viewed on your computer where you can expand them as much as you want.

Album - Tour of the Camp split into two Inside (the Huts) and Outside.

Club page updated with a brief description of the various versions of the Club badge/crest. If you have better info please email me.

Image Archive Now 4,367 images after adding 220 new images including many interesting photos of the 1937 refit, several new shots of the 1938 figurehead masting, 17 for 1945, 15 for 1958, 14 for 1959, 12 for 1961, 13 for 1963 (includes one of the Pinnace almsot totally submerged on her side). Thanks to David Pye for a new album -1964 The End of the Camp, 20 for 1964, 2 for 1970 and 5 of the paying off ceremony. New albums for 1915, 1921, Flying, Shooting, Cross Country and Committee Chairmen. All in Accessions album

Notables:

-  Thanks to Geoff Haskins for info about Rear Admiral (E) Frederick Stewart Billings FS CBE RN (1913-14).

-  Moved the list of Commodores of Shipping Cos to the Notables page so that it's with the list of senior officers in the three uniformed servcies. Added CWR Royds as our 18th Commodore RN.

-  Added Lt Cdr Ian Fraser VC's obituary from Sea Breezes

157 Personal Web sites - added 1917-18 Cdr Selwyn John Power Warrand RN, 1961-63 Richard Collinson and 1961-62 Jeremy Kemp

Relics updated details about the Altar Rail, Field Gun, Ships Window and Taffrail

Slop Chest updated with fuller descriptions of the ensigns and of the Norbury and Mitchell cups.

Small Boats big update with new info about nearly all existing boats, several new boats and new photos.

Staff:

-  Chairmen of the management committe: filled in lots of gaps with more details and photos. Only one gap now remains for the period 1859 - 1889.

-  Padres: Filled a gap bewteen 1911 and 1919 with two more Padres and a new Padre for 1973-4.

-  Chief Officers: Added a new Chief Officer for 1936, and about a dozen new members of staff.

Created a new In Memoriam page to commemorate OCs who died in the two world wars, those who were lost at sea and those who were awarded Britain's highest gallantry awards. There is also a list of the known medals and awards received by OCs. My thanks to Geoff Haskins for his dedicated research to bring the world war lists up to date. My thanks to to the Friends of HMS Conway for the list of OCs lost at sea which is necessarily incomplete but will  be extended from time to time.

Added some review comments on the book here.

Image Archive has another big update this time (lots of new material via the Club AGM & Dinner Dance). There are now 4146 entries - latest additions are in the Accessions folder. The 4,000th image came from Dave Tink - a group of cadets on a ship visit to Hinakura' in Liverpool in 1955. I've added it to the Home Page-  Added new Theme folders showing the formats of the covers of the Cadet magazine from inception to date, the various mdoels of the ship and the 1954 masting of the figurehead at the camp.

Notables and Staff pages: Completed the reformatting of entries and addition of more photos for all Notables entries.

-  Added a new entry for Cdr G W Couch (1911-13), returned as Second, then Chief Officer. Added our 27th Admiral - Rear Admiral H Betty (years not known but he was an Admiral in 1921).

-  Added Commodore William Marshall RNR CB DSO (1886-88) to the list of senior officers (our 17th Commodore). The first man to hold the appointment of Commodore RNR . He was an ADC to the King.

-  Added a new Chairman fro 1923 Mr G D Killey.

-  Added G Mastrieff (years not known) Olympic spring board diver in 1924

David Atkinson's years - 71-74 added to his entry in the list of OCs with personal web sites.   Updated the Bibliography with details of his recently published book "Thinking the Art of Management: Stepping Into Heidegger's Shoes" Added new link for Captain Sir Edward James Headlam RIN Kt, CSI CMG DSO (years not known) giving 153 entries.

Bibliography updated with Very Willing Griffin by David Marks (61-62) who went by the name David Blagden. Also added  link for him in the personal web sites - the 152nd entry, and an entry in Notables.

Small Boats updated with very brief details of an International 18 sailing boat around in the 1950s. More detail appreciated.

A Career At Sea? Thanks to Chris Puxley (61-63) for adding Silloth (Solway Firth) to list of pilots and harbourmasters (now 33 entries). Thanks to Geoff Moss (54-56) for his list of pilots services: Marsa El Brega (Libya), Milford Haven (70-77), Santan (Borneo) and Port of Spain (Trinidad). There are now 56 pilot entries. A scan of some old Cadets magazines from 1921-2 produced

-  extra Shipping Companies to give 652 entries: Australian United Steam Navigation Co, Black & Black SS Co, Bristol Channel Steamers, British East African Lake Service, British Molasses Co, British Rhine Flotilla, Bryon Steamship Co, Burns Steamship Co, Combs Marshall & Co, Commonwealth & Dominion Line, Commonwealth Government Line, Head Line, Hong Kong Canton River Steamers, India Office Shipping, Isle Of Man Coastal Service, Khedivian Mail Line, Lloyds Royal Belge Line, Mansfield & Co (Penang), Nautical Shipping Co, Ritsons, Sasoon & Co (Bombay), Sea of Galilee Ferry Boat Servcie, Stewart & Son, Town Line, Turnbull Master & Co, Uganda Lakes Service , United Fruit Company.

- new Uniformed services,3rd Hussars, 40th Pathans Regt, Canadian Police Force, Mysore Mounted Police, Royal Garrison Artillerary, India, Royal Nigerian Marine, Royal Ulster Constabulary and Shanghai Fire Brigade takes us to 194 entries)

-  Added HMS Excellent (RN Gunnery School) as our 81st maritime training establishment.

Relics added details of two newly found Conway (Nile) models - the Williams model (circa 1930s) along with an excellent photo, and the D model from 1991.

Quick update to announce that a I've added details to the Diary pages of the Scottish Branches Autumn Meeting and Dinner to be held at the Royal Dunkeld Hotel Atholl Street Dunkeld Perthshire PH8 0AR on November 9th

A Career At Sea?: updated again. Shipping Cos now 623 after adding Atlantic Transport Line, Hebridean International Cruises (thanks Captain Brian Larcombe 63-65) and Panama Pacific Line.  Added Paras to the Uniformed Services so now 185 of them.

The Book is finally back from the printers and looks fantastic - they've done a magnificent job. Copies are in the post to those who have ordered. To order click here.

Diary page updated with details of the Friends AGM and lunch on 8th November and the Service of Remembrance in the Conway Chapel on 9th. Bookings required by 29th October.

Image Archive now has 4,041 entries after being updated with new photos in the Pinnace album showing various types of Kriegsmarine pinnace including a surviving sister to the pinnace, New images in albums 1941, 1942, 1946, 1955 and 1971. New Reunion album of 1942 cadets in 1992. Copy of the new cover of the cadet added to the Club page.  As always new entries are all in Accessions. 196x album moved to 1959 (thanks to Mike Rowe - that's him sitting down on the sports field).

Re-organised the Video/Film/Sound section. It now has 34 entries organised into five groups: 1.Clips of/by individual OCs,        2. "Historic" clips of Conway you can play immediately,        3. Modern clips of Conway scenes today you can play immediately,        4. "Historic" clips of Conway you need to download to play (some must be purchased).        5. A list of missing film/sound clips we'd like to find. Added 5 new film clips - modern views of Conway scenes including one of a new floating slip being prepared for the Dock and the 1970 bridge fire.

Notables page: started to reformat the page to better differentiate between the VC, GC/AM and GM holders, and to standardise the layout of the individual Notables entries. Adding lots of photos to these entries.

A Career At Sea?: Added Intelligence Corps to list of uniformed services - now 184 entries. Charente Shipping Company moves us up to 620 shipping companies. Burma Star added to list of medals.

Bibliography updated with the new HMS Conway and Quit ye Like Men by JW Perry (53-56) - the story of his life at sea.

The Book can still be ordered here.

Further "Googling" has turned up a little more info about our pinnace, see Small Boats.

Thanks to Geoffrey Haskins, the Notables page has some new entries:

-  Our sixth George Medal, George Cross / Albert Medal, awarded to Sub Lieutenant Charles Wood Robinson AM RNR (years circa 1885).

- Our 16th Commodore RN - Commodore Henry Douglas King, PC CB CBE DSO VD RNVR, Minister of State, along with a photo.

- Extended / new entries for the artist Lt Frank Henry Mason RNVR RBA RI (1880-82)

- New entry for the first captain of Titanic, OC Captain Herbert J Haddock, CB, RD, RNR

Reformatted the Home Page, moved the dedication to the Introduction page and added a new link to the Conway MN Trust

The Ian Fraser page had a broken link to the Order of Service for his Service of Thanksgiving. Correct link is here.

Image Archive updated to 3,971 entries with with new photos in 1932, 1962, 1959, 1968 (New chums January), and 1972 (1st XV Easter), Crests & Badges, Masts, No 1, Tennis, Tour of the Camp and Tour of the Canteen. The archive has also been featured in the http://www.marineart.com website which lists significant maritime image banks.

Career At Sea now has

-  619 shipping companies after adding Chine Shipping Co., Mungo Cambells, Border Tankers, Kaye Ship.Co.,Radcliffe's of Cardiff, Caltex, Wallem Towage &Salvage, Offshore Supply Assoc, Jamaica Banana Producers Jasmin Marine (Yarmouth), Hansa Line Court Line Ltd. Thanks to Rodney Sambrook Port Fcsl 54-56, Mike Battson, 57-59, John Funnell Foretop 58-60, Brian Pollock Mizzen 62-64, Mike Wild (Main 64-68)

-  183 Uniformed Services with the addition of Howe Battalion, RN Division (served WWI in France - the CO was an OC)

-  extra medals: American Military Order of Dragon, Naval General Service medal, British War Medal and the Victory Medal

The List of OCs with web sites is now at 151 after the addition of 1886-88 Captain Sir Edward James Hedlam Kt, CSI CMG DSO RIM (1887-89) (includes a photo) and Captain Herbert J Haddock, CB, RD, RNR

Bibliogrpahy updated with three new books:

-  History of Sea Service under the Government in India by Captain Sir Edward James Headlam Kt CSIO CMG DSO RIN Publisher and year not known. Headlam was, for a time, Director of the RIN.

-  HMHS Britannic "The Last Titan" by Simon Mills: Describes the actions of Captain Herbert James Haddock CB RD RNR (years not known) master of Britannic at the time to rescuse survivors from the sinking HMS Audacious in October 1912 in the North Sea

-  Water Colour Painting by Lieutenant Frank Henry Mason RNVR, RBA, RI with Fred Taylor.

The Book - the book is now available and can be ordered here.

The Ian Fraser page has been updated with a copy of the Order of Service for his Service of Thanksgiving and a summary of the service itself. Details are here.

Added the North East Branch's Trafalgar Night Dinner onboard HMS Trincomalee at Hartlepool Cleveland on 18th October 2008 to the Diary pages.

Image Archive updated with a new Tennis album and more photos from sometime in the 1960s - post 64 as the Band picture clearly shows the rigging for the mast. Please take a look and let me know if you can pin down the year. Also added  a number of other photos to various years from the 1800s to 1967 and a few theme albums. The full set are in Accessions. We now have 3,957 images. Send me more! I want to get to 4,000. in October. Test

It is with the deepest regret that we annouce the death of Lt Cdr Ian Fraser VC DSO RD RNR (36-38). I've added his image to the home page. A tribute and details of funeral arrangements are here. Also added a TV interview with Ian here.

History I've had a few queries about why the history pages have not been updated for some time. It's because of the history of the Ship book about to be released. The book supercedes the pages but I don't want to publish the new data online and spoil book sales! They will change in due course - I have dozens of new entries to add.

Image Archive now has 3,906 images. The following additions are all in Accessions

• new How We Look Now Images for Redman (53-55) and Tubb (59-61)
• added 8 new images of the carving and masting of the new figurehead. In one you can see a copy Nelson's death mask provided for the carving. The carver's daughter now has it in her home.
• Two new albums for the 1960s on of Breeches Buoy and one a variety of shots but I don't know when each was taken. Please let me know if you recognise anyone.
• The 1932 album has been updated with much better quality images and many new ones from a series of at least 67 photos taken in July by Cull's for a future Prospectus. We have the majority of the 67 but some are still missing - if you think you may have more the numbers are on the back of the photos. PS Who is the steward and what is he doing?

A Career at Sea?: Added an introductory poem by an OC which seems to me to be an appropriate scene setter. Shipping Cos - Added Lowdens, MacVicar, Marshall & Co now 607 entries. Added Tin Miner (Siam & Malaya) to 'Other Fields'. Added our 29th harbourmaster - Bowen, Australia, and 182nd uniformed service - Kent Constabulary. Click here.

Miscellaneous Started two new anorak lists. Email me if you can add any (check your copies of The Cadet)

• Scholarship grouped by type e.g. education, charity... 25 to kick us off. I'm not mad enough to try and list the years they were in existence!
• Cups & Prizes listed in alphabetical order again no start-end dates. 111 listed to start us off. This one will grow and grow.

Notables: My thanks to Geoffrey Haskins for providing lots of corrections to years, awards etc  as part of his research into OCs in the two World Wars. In particular he has discovered another Air Commodore RAF (albeit acting) Theodore Quintus Studd (1909-11) who brings our total of ACs to 3.Updated list of international Sportsmen with Prince Serge Oblensky (1904-06) Rugby, England (thanks Brian McManus)

Staff: Added Mr Cyril Elton Lee (1899-1901) Acting 2nd Lt from 1917 vice Douglas. Also added Mr Joseph Bunnell Second Cook, 1881, Mr Burlitt Instructor /Master At Arms, Mr John Ellick, Ward Room Steward 1881, Mr Charles Forder, Captain's Steward 1881, Mr Thomas Hukkinson English master 1881, Edward Lowe Ship's Steward 1818, Mr Thomas Radcliffe, carpenter 1881, Charlotte Williams Domestic Servant 1881 and updated entry for Tozer. The 1881 Census (Ships In Port in the UK) lists all Conway's staff and cadets.

Image Archive now has 3,879 images:

• Added detailsand/or photos of reunion and branch events for 2008 London Branch BBQ, NW Branch lunch in June and Reunion of 62-65 cadets in Liverpool,
• Added new theme albums for the Conway Display at Kelly College, Outward Bounders and an Accessions album to show all additions since the last update. It includes a photo of Baden Powell's model of Conway 1.
• Added new Year albums for 1903 and 1916
• Added new How We Look Now Images for Neal, Oakes and McRea (all 61-4) and Warren 64. Still looking for more so cough up!
• Added details of several BBC TV film clips of Conway from the 1950s and 1974 that I've not been able to find. Click here

Club Pages: Changed email address of the Hon Sec on the Club pages to clubsec@hmsconway.org

Diary: Updated the Diary pages to remove past events and add NW Branch events for 2009.

A Career at Sea?: Shipping Cos - Added The Salvage Association and Outward Bound (Hong Kong) now 605 entries. Pilots - added Shoreham, now 52. Units - added London Fire Brigade now 181 entries. Click here.

Notables: Bed time reading of the Cadet magazine for 1880 discovered a new holder of the Albert Medal. The AM was later incorporated into the George Cross and given the same status as the GC. See entry for McKinstry. 

Notables: A fifth VC?  The December 1918 edition of The Cadet included the latest list of awards to OCs in the Great War. One of the entries claims that Lt Col E B Boston (Conway 08-10) CMG DSO had been awarded the VC. Later editions made no mention of this and I have been unable to find any reference of an award of the VC to this man. It could have been a mistake but no correction was ever made in The Cadet. If anyone can throw any light on this, please email me

Staff: added a profile of "Greasy" Fozard here.

Diary pages - added new event in London on Sept 14th and 14th.

Image Archive now has 3,607 entries- tidied up the 'home page' index hopefully to make it quicker to find things. Added

- New themed album "How We Look Now" 126 now and then photos of OCs arranged by surname. Send yours in if you're not shown.

- New film clip of the figurehead being carved on 23 June 1938

- Branch events: added more images from 2007 Vancouver,new entries for 2006 London BBQ, Central Canada Branch meeting 2007 September 7th.

- Reunions: new albums for 64-68 cadets in 2004 (113 photos), and 1974 cadets in 2004

Updated the Small Boats page with new info about Garibaldi and Prince Louis.

Image Archive.

-  Please note there may be more than one page to an album e.g. 1962 has 3 pages of photos. When you open an album look in the menu bar immediately above the images. If there is more than one page it will tell you.

-  Added new mega photo albums for 1961 and 1962.

-  Also added a new image to 1922 and the Art Gallery - a new painting of the Ship from 1919 by Kenneth Shoesmith which includes a representation of the steam pinnace (also added to Small Boats).

- Added a new section Audio and Video clips by individual OCs. This includes an oddity: an audio book about the life of a cadet aboard the fictional anti-submarine frigate H.M.S. "Conway". Click here.

- Added a new image to the home page

Conway Club Updated entries for Vice Presidents and Committee members; the last Newsletter was not up to date.

The Ships pages added an entry fro August 1838 to the log of the HMS Conway.

Relics page - added detials of the lifbuoy that used to be kept in the Seamanship Room.

Diary Pages

-  Registration for the NZ reunion extended.

-  New event: 2009 January 16th (Friday) to 18th (Sunday) - Post Christmas Weekend at The Angel and Royal Hotel Grantham Lincs.

Bibliogrpahy updated with three assessions: Conway's Cutters , Nursing Aboard HMS Conway and Kings and Commoners: Studies in British Idealism.

Small Boats entries for Emergency Boat, Joan, Lifeboat and the Skifff updated.

Notables added:

-  Commordore Mare CIE RIN (1905-07) and Commodore Thomas Maxwell Stuart Milne-Henderson CIE RIN (1903-5) to give 15 Commodores RN/RIN/RCN/RNR

-  Captain H.B. Harvey (1894-95) to lits of notable OCs (plus photos of him and his medals)

-  A poem by John Betjeman in memory of Matthew Webb

Career At Sea added our 18th merchant fleet Commodore - Cdr Henry Owen L’Estrange(26-29) DSC RD RNR. Also added three new ephemera jobs: Chief Clan Irving, Captain of Hong Kong Admirals Cup team, and Chairman of the Audit Commission for Malaysia. Added three new aqwards to the Medals & Awards.

Searching For Someone have added (now 149 entries)

- Years not known Mike Barnsley 1947 ish

-  Years not known Jeremy Raynham Kemp (late 50s or early 60s)

-  1878-80 Capt Edward Unwin VC CB CMG,

-  1887-89 Frank Henry Mason RB RI RSMA

-  1894-95 Captain H.B. Harvey

-  1914-16 Cdr Arnold Howard Piggott

-  1926-29 Cdr Henry Owen L’Estrange DSC RD RNR

-  1943-45 Lt Cdr David Davis

-  1947-49 Alan Dunlop

-  1950-52 F.M.W. Bartleet M.N.I

-  1960-63 Captain John Harding

-  1966-70 Brain Sinnott

Added SW Branch's annual Christmas lunch on Friday 28th November 08, and Honourable Company Master Mariners' open day onboard HQS Wellington London on Saturday 12th July 2008 to the Diary pages. Reformatted the entries.

Updated Conway Club page to show Patrons, Committee Members and Branches as per Spring 2008 Newsletter.

Updated Friends page to show Trustees and Honorary  Members as per Spring 2008 Newsletter.

Removed all the old images links from the History pages. they're now all on the Image Archive.

If you've come here from my email please excuse my email typing - rushing to get it out.

Final quick update before my week's holiday:

As an update about publication of the new Conway history was not included in the Spring Newsletter I've added a page with latest news accessible from the home page and here. I'd like to gauge interest so if you think you may buy a copy please use the link or form provided.

Added a very brief report and photos of the London Branch BBQ on June 18th 2008 to the Diary Recent Events page. Also reformatted the Recent Events list to differentiate between Branch Events and Reunions, and added them to the Image Archive.

Added several new photos including two of the Ships' Company in the Ship, but for an unknown year. Can you help?

Updated the Diary pages with several new entries, and added details of Scottish branch visit to RSS Discovery. Note a NE  Branch garden party in a few weeks time.

Reintroduced a much updated section describing The Ships

Added a new section to the Home page for Small Boats describing the motor, pulling and sailing boats. Removed some small boats entries from the Relics page and added a few new relics (things not people).

Added Eric Hewitt's obituary to the Staff pages.

Added a new book to the Bibliography pages: TS Mt Edgcumbe: Training Ship For Homeless & Destitute Boys by Bruce Hunt. When Conway 2 (ex Winchester) was replaced by Nile she was return to the RN who renamed her Mount Edgcumbe and loaned her as a training ship moored at Saltash under the railway bridge. This excellent history contains many photos of the ship and interesting comparisons with Conway's daily routine.

Added lots of images of Conway 2 ( ex Winchester) as Mount Edgcumbe to the Image Archive pages and new images from 2003 and 1963 including a good Ship's company (thanks Tosh Neal). Now 3,263 images!

Added details of two films to the Image Archive pages:

- In 1998 Cambrensis television film company of Cardiff produced a SC4 film on the loss of the Conway. On Saturday 18th October 1998 filming took place on the Swellies. The film is in Welsh and, from time to time, is rebroadcast on other channels. There is no English version and no plans to sell copies.

- In 2002 the Alexander Film archive came to light, the extracts viewable online include short clips of the Ship in the 1920s and aground in 1954 (3 minutes in on film one, and 5.27 minutes in on film 3)

Added Music CD: Masefield's Salt Water Ballads to the For Sale page. The cd has a photo of the ship on the cover.

Added detail about uniforms in 1950 to the Miscellaneous page.

Added Alan R Mill-Irving years (58-61) to the list of OCs with personal web sites on the Searching For Someone? page, removed duplicate entry for George Spearing.

Minor revisions to the Introduction page.

Added Captain Christopher Smith QGM (1953-55) to the Notables section

Following requests,The H.M.S. Conway Image Archive has been updated :

- Cutters & Gigs split in to two albums, and Sailing revised to include sailors as well as boats.

- Motor Boats split into separate albums for the Pinnace, No 1, No 2 and the Juice Barge (water boat)

- New albums grouping all QB photos, and Cadet Captains photos.

- New albums for Athletics, Band, Boxing, Breeches Buoy, Cricket, Entrance Exams, Gymnastics, Mountaineering, all Prospectuses,1944 Prospectus (thanks Geoff Topp), 1954 Prospectus, Rugby, Sailing, Ships Company, Skiff, Royal Visits and Plas Newydd.

- New photos in the relics album of the "Caernarvon" Conway anchor being recovered in 1986.

- New photos of Matthew Webb Channel swimmer in Notables album.

- New movie (web cam) of Conway anchor outside Caernarvon Maritime Museum and links to three new film clips.

- 78 new photos added to 1962 and 1963 (thanks Tosh Neal)

I've also added guidance about using the album viewer software.

Bibliography updated with nine new books, also a selection of covers in the Image Archive.

Updated A Career At Sea? list of uniformed services with the Royal Irish Fusiliers, now 180 entries. Added AG Robertson as Commodore of Mogul Line - 17 in total.

Added Alan R Mill-Irving to the list of OCs with personal web sites on the Searching For Someone? page. Now 139 entries.

Added Sam Foulkes (42-49) to Staff page.

Removed old Diary dates from the Diary.

New photo on the Home Page of Plas Newydd form the Strait in 1955.

Added details of 14 Conway film and video clips to the Image Archive.

Included lots of OCs' book covers in the Image Archive (Bibliography) and linked to them from the main Bibliography page. Now 3,068 photos.

Updated Bibliography section with new books in the Assessions lIst including two by J. G. (Geoffrey) Messervy-Norman, and Iain Duncan Smith's (68-72) first novel Made a number of revisions to the list of books (missing publishers, ISBN numbers etc.) more details on R Hutson's book The Nine Lives of Ding Dong Bell, and his third book Voyages - A Celebration of Early European Seamanship.

Added new entries to the pesonal sites for 1899-1901 Lt Charle Bonner VC, 1949-51 Sandy Kinghor, 1961-63 David Lambert and Years not kown R F Youde. Full list is in Searching For Someone? There are now 134 entries.

Corrected the entry for Captain George Hunt DSO DSC RAN (1930-32) in Notables.

The H.M.S. Conway Image Archive has been added to the site and I will now gradually remove all the original thumbnails. This archive contains over 3,000 photographs, drawings, paintings, documents and moving images of and about Conway. The majority of entries are organised in albums by year but there are also a number of themed collections e.g. Gigs & Cutters, and Members of Staff. I have also included albums proving Tours of most Conway locations. At the moment these are just a series of photos but in due course they will be revised as more organised tours e.g. I will add markers to the Ship’s deck plans to show the position from which individual images were taken. Entries are grouped in albums by:

- Conway Year including a series of images taken since 1974. Documents like Prospectuses and Programmes, and special events like the Opening of the New Block are placed in separate year albums.

- Theme e.g. Gigs & Cutters, and Members of Staff. - Tours of most Conway locations. At the moment these are just a series of photos but in due course they will be revised as more organised tours.

- The 1953 Loss of the Ship is covered in a number of albums aligned with the description in the history of the Ship being published this summer.

- Ships, there is an album for each of the three vessels and an extra one for the second Conway (ex Winchester) in her post Conway years as Mount Edgcumbe.

- Moving images are either embedded in the page or a link is provided

For Sale: new painting of Conway at sea as Nile by Spurling. It was painted for the cover of the Blue Peter nautical magazine published during the 1920s and 30s.

Notification has been received from the NW Branch that their bimonthly lunches previously held at the 'Liner' Hotel Lime street will be moved to the 'Liverpool Marina' Coburg Wharf Liverpool L3 4BP. The first lunch at the new venue will be Wednesday 21st May. Price £15.50.Reason for the change is a sudden dramatic rise in the cost of the Liner lunches and deteriorating standard of the meals. Diary

Updates to A Career At Sea? Thanks to Capt J Dickenson(46-48), Nigel Haydn-Evans (54/5) , Peter Lawrence (59-61) Mike Rowe (57/60), Mike Robinson (49-51)and others we now have:

- Irish Sea Ferry Company, James Poole & Co, Joseph Steel & Co (New York), Klondyke Shipping, Lam Hai Steamship Co, Louis Davies & Co, McVicar Marshall & Co, Nielsen Bulk Carriers, Sandbach Tinne & Co, Scottish Office Fishery Protection Fleet, Squarey & Kendall, Ugland Management, Union Shipping Group, W T Dixon & Sons, Yeman Gulf Line, Yacht Captain taking us to 603 shipping companies.

- Dubai, Gravesend Channel Pilot, Holyhead and Teignmouth taking us to 51 pilot service.

- 179 uniformed services by adding 5th Battle Sq, Home Fleet, 15th Minesweeping Flotilla, Bolton Police Force, Derbyshire Constabulary, Imperial Indian Army, RNZ Army, SA Air Force

- RNVR Sail Training Trust added to list of maritime training organisations, now 79.

- Commodores of Nielsen Bulk Carriers and Unicorn Fleet

Added reminder about the Club's AGM and Dinner Dance to the Home Page.

The NW, East Midlands and Scottish branches have sent details of their forthcoming events. Details are on all on the Diary page.

Added a 28th Harbourmaster to the list in a A Career At Sea? Thanks to Colin (Charlie) Parker (71-74) who was Harbourmaster in Aberdeen until a few years ago; he is now CEO of the port. The list of Harbourmasters and Pilot Servcies is not bad but I'm sure there are more. Let me know if you can add to the list - alfie@hmsconway.org

Updated the entry about the gigs and the pinnace in the Relics page and inclued photos of sister pinnaces in German world war 2 capital ships.

Added our 134th OC with some form of personal site:  Lieutenant Arthur Glynne Lewis to the list in the Searching For Someone? page.

Updated the For Sale page with details of new books available thorugh the Club. They are all by Canon Bob Evans of Mersey Missions To Seamen who writes mainly on nautical matters around the Mersey.

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

Now 587 shipping companies in A Career At Sea? thanks to Ernie Fairley (47-48) for Gulf East Shipping and China Ocean Shipping (HK) Ltd. With your help can we get to 600?