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What's
New
Major updates and additions to this site
January 2012:
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Added a new
book review to the review page,
From School to Landing Craft
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Added a new
reminiscence to The MONAB Story,
Childhood memories or Schofields:
A short piece submitted by Don Pollock who, as a school
boy, lived beside the airfield at Schofields (Quakers Hill) New
South Wales.
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Added two new
pictures to the 'Mystery
photos' page
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Added new article -
Eleven
months aboard HMS INDOMITABLE combining the
diary of Able Seaman Gerald A. Hancock and the photographs of
Petty Officer Walter E Gelling this records the eleven months at
sea of HMS INDOMITABLE, from Liverpool in September 1941
to Gibraltar in August 1942.
November 2011:
October 2011:
September 2011:
May2011:
August 2011:
May2011:
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New page added
in the Reminiscence section;
Royal Naval Hospital Chatham X-Ray
Department Staff 1943 in which Dr Ken Hines
recalls how his parents met while working in the X-Ray
department, and how his mother went on to do work for some of
the most senior members of the naval medical staff.
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New page added
in the Reminiscence section;
Leading Coder
(S) Dennis Mills in which Dennis recalls his life in
the royal navy as a national service entrant 1952-54, He trained
as a Coder (Special) and served at H.M.S. Royal Albert in
Germany before his demob and then ten years in the reserves.
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New gallery added
to the Royal Navy Escort Carrier site:
H.M.S. RAVAGER gallery
April 2011:
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The revised
MONAB
Story web site went live on April 8th. The site has a
slightly different look b using the same templates with a few
'tweaks'. The main reason behind the revision was the
comparability with higher resolution monitors, the templates are
now dynamic and will stretch to fit the screen without
distorting the content. The build resolution is 1024x768 and it
has been tested at 1280x800.
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Added a new
Mystery Photo
Quiz page - a mix of genuinely unidentified photos
and others thrown in as a challenge for fun.
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Added a short
account of the naval career of
Paymaster
Lieutenant Commander Edward N. Hopkns RN (1878 to 1947)
in the People section.
March 2011:
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New page added
in the Reminiscence section;
Sub Lt. (A) Peter Hyde RNVR
In ‘'Trapped Above the Clouds by Coincidence'’ Peter recalls how
a chain of coincidences led led him to the war in the Pacific
and eventually, to an encounter in a bar in London after the
war.
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Small gallery of
photos from the WW1 cruiser
HMS CONSTANCE added
February 2011:
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New page added
in the People section;
WRNS Torpedoman Barbara Sugden
When she enlisted in the WRNS Barbara had no expectation of what
role she would play in the war effort; imagine her surprise when
she was allocated to a branch newly opened to women. She was to
train as a Torpedoman and soon found herself working on depth
charges and gyro compasses, sometimes even at sea.
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Forum panel added
to the home page which displays the last seven messages posted .
January 2011:
October
2010:
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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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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