News about the site, updates and additions

 

 

August 2009

Added link to short video clip of HMS Nabob taken during her work up in June 1944.

 

 

December 2008

Completed updating the page templates to incorporate the font scaling feature on all pages and some security fixes. Testing for compatibility on Firefox 3 showed a few flaws and some features of IE that are not supported by Firefox; these issues have been corrected, in particular the roll over text on images function of IE - this is IE specific so is being removed and image captions will be added below the graphic.

 

Ships badges and mottos: the correct badges and mottos are now in place - apologies for the delay in establishing just which badges were actually issued and have an authorised Admiralty Sealed Pattern. There are several unofficial badges which will be made available in a future update, these appear to be designs in use by ships prior to the authorised badge being issued - these have caused some confusion in the past but thanks to the Admiralty Ships Badges Encyclopaedia by T. P. Stopford  (2008) this has been cleared up.

 

Added photo galleries for HMS Atheling

 

October 2008

Added account and gallery for HMS Patroller

Added account for HMS Premier

 

August 2008

Added accounts for HMS Empress and HMS Smiter

 

June 2008

Added account of HMS Shah

Started updating site with font scaling capability for improved accessibility.

 

August 2007

Added account of HMS Ranee.

Added account of HMS Slinger and started a gallery for the same ship.

 

June 2007

Added account of HMS Emperor.

 

April 2007

Updated the content of the Shipyards page

 

February 2007

Added unofficial badge for HMS Smiter

 

January 2007

Added unofficial ship's badge for HMS Trumpeter.

 

November 2006

Added account of HMS Nabob and photo gallery

 

August 2006

This is the first entry in this new page, I decided to add a news page after making several changes to the site and thought that you, the visitor, may like to be kept informed about what has changed, been added or taken away.

 

There are now 22 ship histories that have an entry of some kind (some are more comprehensive than others), I have been attempting to work through them alphabetically but requests for information has seen a number being tackled out of turn. Some histories have taken precedence over the alphabetical plan - i.e. Nabob and Puncher when working in collaboration with the Canadian aviation enthusiast Patrick Martin who was researching the two Canadian manned CVEs for a book.

 

 

Tony Drury

Editor/webmaster