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What's
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Major updates and additions to this site
May
2010:
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Added a page about the war time service of
Telegraphist
(S) Clifford Dennison
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Added a
collection of photographs taken when by former Leading Air
Mechanic (Engines) Douglas 'Shorty' Heath visited the former
Royal Navy Air Station at Sembawang, Singapore, H.M.S. SIMBANG
65 years on from when he served there at the end of "WW2
August 2009:
May
2009:
June
2008:
April
2008:
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Updated the
HMS King Alfred and
HMS Vernon
pages - new images added.
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Added a new 'miscellaneous photos' section
and uploaded small photo gallery of
D-Day images supplied by Mr.
Malcolm Bennett. Malcolm's late father Roland served aboard HMS
Warspite.
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Added a revised guest book, this is now
embedded within the site template and no longer opens in a
Bravenet external page..
January
2008:
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Added a donations button to the main home
pages - this asks for £1 towards the running costs of the site
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Added the first content for World War ! - the
memoirs of Able Seaman James Robert John Hart, a member of the
London Division of the Royal Navy Reserve who served in the
Royal Naval Division fighting as an infantryman in Gallipoli and
France.
November 2007:
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Created a new section 'People' to hold links
to pages and galleries dedicated to individuals who served in
the RN, RM and reserve forces.
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Added “The Forgotten Cruise” by Tony O`Toole
an article recalling HMS Triumph and the 13th Carrier Air Group,
the first Royal Navy Carrier Force in the Korean War.
May
2007:
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Added the reminiscences of Angus Kidd,
entitled
"I Spy" - Angus recalls his time as a
national serviceman in the Royal Navy, his
selection and training for specialisation in
interception of Russian communications during the Cold War
era.
February
2007:
January
2007:
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Added an online forum for visitors to make
more advanced posts onto message boards dedicated to particular
aspects of the Royal Navy. Users must create a username and
password to access the forum but once enrolled they can easily
add photographs and web links to their posts.
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Added a short reminiscence piece about
the experiences of a
wartime evacuee and his brother, sent to the US on
the Cunard liner Scythia in 1940 and returned home on HMS Thane
in 1944.
August
2006:
February
2006:
January 2006:
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Added new article -
In Memoriam -
Wren Anne McCormack
A brief account of an
accident in 1943 which claimed the lives of 8 WRNS ratings and
how one is still remembered today.
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Added notice on the home page for Windows
Service Pack 2 users about how it treats the new accessibility
features.
December 2005:
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HMS Lizard page updated with new content.
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New accessibility features added to the RN
Research Archive (navy blue) pages - scalable font sizes and
keyboard access keys to navigate the main pages. It is hoped
to add these features to all areas of the site over time.
If you have any comments about these features please e-mail
me using the button at the bottom of this page.
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Colour scheme modified for better
readability: removed mid-Blue headings, lines and bullets,
these were changed to white.
November 2005:
Guest book modified to include anti-spamming
technologies - while these may make the process of posting a comment
on the Guest book a little more complicated the prevention of
offensive or annoying junk posts making their way into the pages is
in everyone's interest.
June 2005:
Added the reminiscences of two WRNS Torpedomen,
both of whom trained at HMS Vernon (R) and served at HMS
Caroline.
May 2005:
Added an article about the Avro
Lancaster Bomber
in service with the Fleet Air Arm.
March
2005:
Added the histories of
HMS VERNON (R) and
HMS
LIZARD
February
2005:
The Royal Navy Research Archive is launched.
Initial content comprised of my three on-going
web based projects that are
The site also hosts and maintains John Lawson's
HMS Slinger pages.
Tony Drury
Webmaster
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