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rn badges 1930 to 1980 - a fascinating look at branch structures and alma maters
A FEW PHOTOGRAPHS AND BITS AND PIECES
The Navy's standing in the world 30 years ago
RN W/T CALLSIGNS FROM 1919 - Ships who fought and survived WW1 - THROUGH TO 1925
RN Ratings and their titles in the early 1970's.
HARD LYING MONEY Method of assessing eligibility and general rules
Communications, Electronics and Satellites Chronology
BOREDOM CAN DO FUNNY THINGS - Education in the RN!
HMS CHEVIOT - did one of its crew members help swell the ranks of the RN ?
international flags of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
WAS THE NAVY REALLY NAMED THE ANDREW AFTER THE PRESS GANG BOSS.htm
Naval engagements a generation ago
Colours Sir? - Not The Ceremony, but the spectrum!
THE OLD DAYS OF CW [MORSE CODE]
Is it a RAS[S] a RAS[L] or a RAS[C]?
MALTA IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY
Grog - written in 1895 by F.H. Miller
SciFi Themeset - OLD NAVY PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM
OLD NAVY PHOTOGRAPHS - ALBUM TWO
SHIPS BELL - just a filler!
MAINTAINING WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY EQUIPMENT 1901 STYLE
KEY TO 1952 SHIPS AND THEIR CALLSIGNS
AS TO RED, WHITE AND BLUE ENSIGNS
BOYS TRAINING IN 1903 - that's gunnery training!
BOYS TRAINING IN THE LAST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY
THE VERY EARLY DAYS OF THE COMMUNICATIONS BRANCH
wireless telegraphy in the Royal Navy circa 1901
A NAVAL TRANSMITTER OF THE 1940 AND 1950 PERIOD
Royal naval communications transmitters and receivers from the 1950's to the 1970's
Bygone Days2 - see above for title
ganges didn't rule all the waves
WHAT SHIP OWNS THIS VERY FAMOUS RADIO CALLSIGN?
Southsea 3rd June 2004 - The Navy at the D-Day 60th Anniversary celebrations.
A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY - HMS SHEFFIELD REFIT 1980
BRITISHNESS - A PART OF WHICH WE SHOULD BE PROUD OF!
DIRTY SUBMARINE WARFARE IN TOTAL WAR CONDITIONS
WHEN & WHY DID THE USA ENTER WW1 - A NAVAL STORY
THIS
PAGE IS A MUST IF YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT ONE OF THE LARGEST AND MOST SUCCESSFUL
BATTLES THE RN EVER FOUGHT POST NELSONS ENGAGEMENTS. CLICK ON The first RN battle of the Falklands
A STORY FROM THE FIRST WORLD WAR
BOY'S OWN HEROICS ! World War 1 HMS Kent
AND WHAT WERE YOU WORTH TO THE NAVY IN 1983? WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW WHAT YOU WOULD BE GETTING NOW?
A PILGRIMAGE TO BURNHAM THORPE, BIRTH PLACE OF LORD NELSON
VENEREAL DISEASE IN THE NAVY WAS RIFE!
IN MY TIME THEY WERE CALLED "SHIRT LIFTERS" !
THE PERSISTENT MISUSE OF RN OFFICIAL NUMBER PREFIXES
"BIG HITTERS" AND THEIR RADIO CALLSIGN [1930-1931 TIME TO AND THROUGH WW2] - The mighty HOOD, KG V, RODNEY etc etc
INTERESTING RADIO CALLSIGNS OF THE "LESBIAN", THE "GANGES" AND THE "R101" plus CALLSIGNS LIKE "CRAP" "KISS" and "DAFT" and many more. Also the callsign of the Russian battleship [?] which fired the first shot of the 1917 Russian Revolution in Leningrad, now St Petersburg.
BRITISH SUBMARINES OF 1930 AND BEFORE!
RADIO CALLSIGNS PRE AND POST 1912
NICK NAMES USED IN THE R.N. - and elsewhere!
THE HERBERT LOTT NAVAL TRUST FUND
MY 'CALLING CARD' ! To enjoy it you will need to have an ADOBE FLASH READER installed, just like you probably have an ADOBE [PDF] READER installed. Go to this site to download a FREE 'FLASH READER' Adobe - Adobe Flash Player
WHAT A STRANGE THING TO HAVE IN COMMON - also General Belgrano
WHAT HAPPENED IN THE YEAR I JOINED THE NAVY ?
ROYAL NAVAL GUNNERY IN WORLD WAR II
HMS HOOD in 1936. Monthly RM gossip from the Battlecruiser to the RM Journal 'Per Mare'.
THE R.N. COMMUNICATOR MAGAZINE
The Health of the RN in 1936! Why was HMS HOOD healthier when in the Home Fleet and not so healthy when in the Mediterranean Fleet ? AND! Why was HMS GANGES the crème-de la-crème?
The R.N.'s last diesel electric submarines.
A RUDE FACT of life - a snippet !
THE END OF WW2 [VE and VJ Day 60th Anniversary Celebrations]
THE W/T FIT OF R.M.S. Queen Mary in 1936 as shown in a Pussers Document !
The cost of Pussers Slops 30 years ago in 1975
At SEA Before Radio Communications!
AGED 15, WERE THEY BOY'S OR JUNIOR'S ?
HM SUBMARINE SIDON MEMORIAL SERVICE
HMS COLLINGWOOD - Keeper of a working BURIAL Gun Carriage !!
SIGNALLING BEFORE THE DAYS OF RADIO AND THE 'WIRELESS' SYSTEM
A SAD REFLECTION ON A MAN'S SERVICE !
A LADY WHO LOVED AND ADMIRED THE MEN OF THE ROYAL NAVY !
HMS ARK ROYAL - A SHORT-LIVED WW2 CARRIER
JOHN DEDMAN, A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS ! A MAN WHO SERVED IN THE NAVY IN WW1 AND WW2
HMS GANGES - THE FOOD IN RNTE SHOTLEY BEFORE WW2
NAVAL RECRUITING OFFICES IN THE UK PRIOR TO WW2
JOINING THE ROYAL NAVY AS A CAREER PRIOR TO WW2
A WORTHWHILE RESTORATION IN MALTA - MANOEL ISLAND MAKEOVER
THE RN PERISHER - POSSIBLY THE TOUGHEST COURSE IN THE ROYAL NAVY ?
ST GABRIEL'S CHURCH 1950-1991 IN HMS MERCURY
A KOREAN VETERAN - HMS CONSTANCE
VICTORIA AND ALBERT III - A Royal Yacht
NON-CLICKABLE NOTE: The many quizzes in this menu [all of them packed full of modern naval history] have been removed because of the lack of interest. They were taking up space in areas which proved to have too few hits.
THE COURT MARTIAL OF THE COMMANDING OFFICER HMS MERCURY
RN's 6th Submarine Squadron, 1955-1965, based upon HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Canada
A SUBMARINES PENNANT NUMBER - CHANGED THREE TIMES DURING ITS LIFE !
The FIRST British Submarine to be fitted with Wireless Telegraphy {W/T}
The RN's very first operational Cryptography Machine
The promised two new aircraft carriers
A GOOD CHARITY WITH A NAUTICAL APPROACH !
A SUBMARINER TELEGRAPHIST OF THE 1920's
RULE BRITANNIA - German Armed Forces WW1 vis-à-vis WW2 Covering both defeats.
IS THE RN IN DANGER OF FOLLOWING THE RCN ?
THE DARKER SIDE OF HMS GANGES !
GANGES TRAINING WITHOUT THE MYTHS - A COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION? FACT!
GANGES - THE COMPLETE ENVIRONMENT OF THE ESTABLISHMENT
GANGES FOOD - Would you leave a tip ?
GOSPORTS ROYAL NAVAL BARRACKS ?
WHY THE HARRIER HAS BEEN RETIRED AND THE NEW JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER F-35 IN FLIGHT
HIGHLY SECRET NAVAL WEEKLY WAR DIARIES OF THE ROYAL NAVY DURING WW2 - EXAMPLE OF
ROYAL NAVAL PRISONS AND ROYAL NAVAL DETENTION QUARTERS
SUEZ WAR OF 1956 - PART TWO [SOME INTERESTING DETAIL]
GANGES - WHAT THE NEWSPAPERS SAID ?
GANGES BOYS - DEATH BY MISADVENTURE
RECRUITING JUNIORS - ARE THEY REALLY TESTED ?
WHEN IS A BUTTON BOY NOT A BUTTON BOY ?
A MEMORIAL TO FOUR GANGES BOYS
HOW MANY PRICKS WERE IN YOUR NAVY ? Despite the innuendo, this, like all my pages, is a serious naval study.
WHY ARE YOU NOT WEARING YOUR KNICKERS HMS DARING ?
THE BAD OLD DAYS OF THE 1955 ARMED FORCES - MURDER AND MAYHEM !
NAVAL DISCIPLINE AND PUNISHMENTS WHEN RNTE SHOTLEY FIRST OPENED ITS DOORS
"STONEWALL FRIGATES" OF THE LATE 1950's
THE SAD DEMISE AND DEATH OF A GANGES JUNIOR IN 1956
STREET NAMES IN THE FORMER HMS GANGES SITE - OFFER YOUR SUGGESTION
BOMBERS BOOMERS POLARIS TRIDENT RESOLUTION
OLD AND RARE GANGES PHOTOGRAPHS
GANGES AND SHOTLEY NAVAL BURIAL GROUND
2004 BRIDGE CARD SHOWING VESSELS ONLY
Boy Telegraphist's Story WW1 Submarines
THE GERMAN WORLD WAR 2 VICTORIA CROSS EQUIVALENT
BEFORE THE DAYS OF A NATIONAL NAVAL MUSEUM
TOO MANY BOYS AND NOT ENOUGH SHIPS
GANGES SNIPPETS FROM NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS
THE DISTURBANCE AT PORTSMOUTH NAVAL BARRACKS IN 1905
THE COST OF YOUR TRAINING AT HMS GANGES [SEAMEN AND COMMUNICATORS]
HOW THE ADMIRALTY WORKED WHEN WE HAD A GLOBAL NAVY
ADMIRALS AND THE USE OF RN IN THEIR TITLES
THE GRAVE OF BOY FIRST CLASS A.A. KING d.1901
NAVAL FILES OF INTEREST [BOYS AND MEN]
CIVILIAN WAGES AT HMS GANGES BEFORE WW1
RHEUMATISM IN YOUNG GANGES BOYS
LONDON BOYS WERE POOR RECRUITS FOR THE NAVY - HMS GANGES AND OTHER TRAINING ESTABLISHMENTS.
OUR POOR NAVY IN 1879 ! - a mention of possibly our most brilliant admiral since Lord Nelson ?
DARTMOUTH - How did the Naval College get there ? Because in the desirability of site questionnaire set by an Admiralty committee, it answered the majority of the 2000 plus question set correctly.
HMS GANGES ON BBC RADIO 4 26.05.09 AT 1500
A stunning picture of Portsmouth Dockyard with ANIMATION - pity about the ships ! Also includes a NAVAL tour of Portsmouth !
Flogging and the severe shortage of boys for training ships - NOTE IN THE OPENING PARAGRAPHS THE TYPES OF BOYS RECRUITED.
KNOWING OF THEM BUT DO THEY KNOW OF US ?
THE GANGES MAST 1042 SATURDAY 11TH JULY 2009
HMS GANGES - A BRAND NEW WEB PAGE [16TH JULY 2009] DEALING WITH THE FACTS ABOUT THIS NAVAL ICON !
THE VERY FIRST COMMUNICATOR MAGAZINE
A 1991 Visit to the old Alma Mater - a video tour of HMS Ganges
A GANGES MAGAZINE [The Shotley Magazine]
CHATHAM DOCKYARD - Remembering the Royal Dockyard and its facilities of yesteryear.
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HMS GANGES FEMALE ? SURELY NOT !
HMS GANGES ASSOCIATION AND ITS TROUBLES
CHINESE LAUNDRIES ON HM SHIPS - Good for the crew and the navy in general but bad news for the RN Laundryman and his BROWN CARD !! Class I and III were those dressed in fore and aft rig, namely officers, senior rates after 1 year probation or acting time as a petty officer, all artificers irrespective of rate, all junior rates of the sub branches of the S & S branch, coders and sickbay junior ratings. Class II are acting petty officers until confirmed, and all junior ratings dressed in square rig [round hats].
FUNERALS involving the ROYAL NAVY
Why British and most other naval uniforms are the colour they are
VETERANS LONDON TRAVEL CONCESSIONS
HMS GANGES MAST 4TH NOVEMBER 2009
Support for our Armed Forces - with a big difference
WW1 SURVIVORS - WHO COUNTS AND WHO DOESN'T
HMS GANGES' MEMORIAL AT THE NATIONAL ARBORETUM
The National Memorial Arboretum and the Ganges Memorial
The repatriation of a country's deceased service personnel
Ex RN Radio Electrical Greenies or 'Comms Branch WT
A TRAFALGAR DAY COMMEMORATION DINNER
KATE NESBITT MC - THE NAVY IS VERY PROUD OF YOU
T.S. [TRAINING SHIP] ARETHUSA - A FEED POINT FOR HMS GANGES !
TWO CRUCIAL INTERNATIONAL MARITIME MEASUREMENTS - PANAMA CANAL ANIMATION INCLUDED
THE WRNS - AUDREY MARTIN AND HER SERVICE AS A WREN IN THE 1950's
SIGNAL_SCHOOLS_OF_THE_ROYAL_NAVY
THE EXECUTIVE CURL ON A NAVAL OFFICERS UNIFORM - A snippet of information !
WW2 - THROUGH ENEMY EYES ! - Just a snippet !
THOSE WHO HAVE PASSED THROUGH THE GATES OF HMS GANGES - Royalty, coffins, admirals, First Lord's, film stars, traitors !
A SAILORS LIFE - SOME ASPECTS OF
ADMIRALTY FLEET ORDER [AFO] -- SERIES - A snippet only !
NAVAL PRISONS AND NAVAL DETENTION QUARTERS
OTHER SAILORS IN THE FAMILY - over 132 years worth !
LONG COURSE COMMUNICATION OFFICER TRAINING IN THE 1950s
RN COMMUNICATORS TRAINING USING 12 INCH 78 RPM GRAMOPHONE RECORDS
The Naval Prime Electrical Training School in WW2
RN TRAINING OF HO's - HMS GORDON - TRAINEES SENT INTO THE ROYAL NAVY OR THE MERCHANT NAVY ?
A FAMOUS NAVAL FAMILY - A SIGNALS OFFICER
RN_COMMUNICATIONS_BRANCH_BADGES_THROUGH_THE_YEARS
RN BOYS - Officer Cadets; Artificers and Seamen/Communicators - Their uniform badges and insignia
WW2_MAP_AND_EVENTS - Animated map showing Germany's expansion to its destruction.
GANGES_MAST_ROBBED_OF_PROMISED_MONEY
RN_OFFICERS_EPAULETTES_AND_SHOULDER_STRAPS
RN_Officers_Coloured_band_between_or_under_stripes
1906_BRITISH_WARSHIP_VISUAL_CALLSIGNS
THE_WRNS_AND_OTHER_NAVAL_WOMENS_SERVICES
BRITISH_AND_COMMONWEALTH_ARMED_FORCES_CALLSIGNS_1912_TO_1967
The_Royal_Navy_when_a_Christian_Navy
NAVAL_COMMUNICATIONS_OPERATING_SIGNALS_ACP131
HMS_GANGES_CLEAR_OUT_NOW_TREASURE_TROVE
1910-1930 PERIOD - ALL GANGES BOY'S [SEAMEN & COMMUNICATORS] WERE TAUGHT MORSE CODE BY HAND FLAGS
The story of RATT [Radioteletype] at SEA in the Royal Navy
A_DES_RES_BED_AND_BREAKFAST - An old 'O' Class diesel electric submarine !
THE_SHOTLEY_MAGAZINE_A_COMPARISON
CARERS_AND_MINDERS - of none other than Lord Nelson !
MISTREATMENT_OF_NAVAL_PROPERTY
ROYAL NAVAL COMMUNICATIONS - HOW WE DID IT 50 YEARS AGO IN 1960 - "GUIDE TO USERS"
ROYAL NAVAL COMMUNICATIONS - HOW WE DID IT 50 YEARS AGO IN 1960 - "FLEET AIR ARM COMMUNICATIONS"
ROYAL NAVAL COMMUNICATIONS - HOW WE DID IT 50 YEARS AGO IN 1960 - MESSAGE HANDLING PART 1
ROYAL NAVAL COMMUNICATIONS - HOW WE DID IT 50 YEARS AGO IN 1960 - MESSAGE HANDLING PART 2
ROYAL NAVAL COMMUNICATIONS - HOW WE DID IT 50 YEARS AGO IN 1960 - VOICE PROCEDURE AND TECHNIQUE
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