TABLE ON CONTENTS
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
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 theRoyal Navy circa 1901
A NAVAL TRANSMITTER OF THE 1940 AND 1950 PERIOD
Royal naval communications transmiters and receiver 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
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
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
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, WHERE 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}