Royal Navy sailors
and Royal Marines are to gain the benefit of new diet advice – but
it won’t be with the aim of shedding pounds, it’s
about providing energy.
It can be a gruelling
life in the military – and the exertions of CPO Mark ‘Tugg’ Wilson
and C/Sgt ‘Nutty’ Edwards are a good example,
as the senior rates went without sleep for 36 hours for
the honour of the Senior Service.
HMS Kent’s visit
to Malta has allowed Royal Navy and Maltese air crew to
pick up hints from each other as the hosts prepare to operate
an aircraft at sea for the first time next year.
Explosion!, the museum
of Naval firepower at Gosport in Hampshire, has released
details of a new gallery studying the victualling operations
of the Royal Navy of old which is due to open next summer.
The last reminder
of the classic days of the ‘big gun’ Navy will
be immortalised in print – but this time it is the
men of HMS Belfast, not the ship herself, which will be
honoured.
Contingents of sailors
and Royal Marines, as well as thousands of veterans of
the Naval Service, joined members of the Royal Family and
the Government in honouring those who died fighting for
freedom around the world.
Long hours of square-bashing
and ceremonial practice by nearly 100 sailors involved
in Remembrance events in London have gone smoothly at Whale
Island in Portsmouth – thanks to judicious use of
bananas.
They may be more than
500 miles from the nearest coastline, but one branch of
the Royal Naval Association is thriving amidst the sands
of Saudi Arabia.
One of the hidden
strengths of the Royal Naval Association is the loyalty
of its members, especially to those down in their luck,
as members of the Harare branch in Zimbabwe have discovered.
Royal Fleet Auxiliary
ship RFA Sir Galahad has collected the prestigious Wilkinson
Sword of Peace for her humanitarian efforts during the
conflict in Iraq last year.
The Geordie Gunboat
makes her last public appearance as part of the Fleet today – and
the longest-serving surface warship in the Royal Navy goes
out on a high.
HMS Leeds Castle made
her final patrol to one of the remotest outposts in the
list of British territories when she called in at South
Georgia in near-perfect Austral spring weather.
More than 200 Royal
Navy and civilian workers at Portsmouth Naval Base took
part in this year’s Basin Run, providing a major
fillip for Portsmouth-based charities.
More than 400 former
staff and pupils – including five headmasters – gathered
at a reunion of Tal Handaq, the old Royal Naval Secondary
School in Malta.
The Navy’s second
most senior officer saw the scale of the Fleet’s
next generation warships for himself when he started work
on part of destroyer HMS Dauntless.
