How interesting to read all the comments. Laid down in Bombay Dockyard. Original - $11.39. 1968 - HMS Mercury Daufman advert. 1967 - HMS Hermes, Daniel Costello. I reached the dizzy heights of Leading Junior but the only perk I remember was being able to get to the front of the scran queue because of my white gaiters! However, if this lad was at a training establishment and not on active service how is it that he has a CWGC gravetsone ? Later he would be signalman to Mountbatten and served on HMS Warspite, becoming CYS. Nelly Nelson, I called him Admiral, he called me Captain, a Comms rating my best mate, we used to climb the mast and have a fag at weekends, if we had one, who I later served on the Diana with, Hygiene Howell, the Moir twins, Jeff Manning, and a lad called Mannion who dissappeared one day, we were told he had commited suicide (Ganges did that to some lads), Phil Tarrant, Londoner, who never ceased to make me laugh Aide Hibbert nuff said, well thats about it, except does anyone remember the chocolate bar machine in the Long Covered way, it used to spew out its bars with a little fiddling, used to pay for my fags. var fontstart = ''
I returned to Ganges when a Home Office training establishment as a guest of the Superintendent I/C and enjoyed a glass of sherry in what was formerly the Captains office overlooking the Quarter Deck. Bernards of Harwich who were Naval tailors. HMS Ganges was a shore establishment for boy seamen. It used to be a training camp for the Navy until 1976, and in later years it was a police training school. Note the number alongside the photo and then click HMS GANGES Parents Day 1968 Brochure Always_a_Civvy Sep 15, 2006 A Always_a_Civvy ADC Sep 15, 2006 #1 This are some images from the 1968 Parents Day Brochure. I intend to visit the museum the next time I am in Suffolk. 1966 - Royal Navy in Singapore. h4 {font-family: calibri; font-size: 17px; text-align:left; color: #000000;} On 29th August 1899 she slipped her moorings and, escorted by the tug Escort made for Devonport. aside2 {width: 600px;padding-left: .5rem;margin-left: .5rem;float: left;} HMS Ganges was a training ship and later stone frigate of the Royal Navy. sticking up like one giant finger.Ganges was an experience that will never leave me, a love hate relationship, Started out in Anson 20 mess, back classed through illness and ended up in Grenville 23 mess.Greatest achievement of my life was getting my branch badge after thirteen months I think that I had earned it. You can still see the infamous mast that all entrants had to climb. Was a backward fish and hated my time in the very cold swimming pool to gain my QS. included in this entry. My late brother left a scribbled note referring to the death of his naval father in March 1919 at a Shotley Hospital following an incident in connection with HMS Coventry when several men were badly injured. It may not display this or other websites correctly. 1966 - RO Chappell. Hardest six weeks ever but set my standards of life.Will never forget how proud we were when we passed out of there. Left 18 years later as a CPO GI. Wally a priest- hard to see but knowing him as I did and what a comedian he was, yes anything was possible, Joined 5th September 1972 Picture Information. dailyinfo[18]=' Nurse Hellen ILINE Russian Army who died 18/02/1920 MIKRA BRITISH CEMETERY, KALAMARIA Greece '
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In 1779 HMS Ganges came into service before becoming a shore training establishment for boy entrants into the Royal Navy in 1905. I joined Ganges on September 1st 1963 and lived in Benbow 28 Mess. FOR SALE! This was by no means the first ship to be given by John Company to the British Government. 1966 - Royal Navy in Singapore. The button boy was paid a shilling for his endeavours. My video shows him shinning up the last bit. JavaScript is disabled. 1969 - Presentation. 1968 - RS EJ Emberton. h3 {font-family: calibri; font-size: 20px; text-align:center; color: #000000;}
dailyinfo[9]=' 910311 Private Charles Henry CROMWELL 2nd Canadian Constr. What a turn of fate. 1966 - Royal Navy in Singapore. Very fond memories but what a shame its in such a state. 1969 - RO Alan Ingham. 1969 - John Green and Stevie Kerslake. h5 {font-family: calibri; font-size: 13px; text-align:left; color: #000000;} These photos show the current state of the Ganges. 1966 - Lt Richard Kent HMS Llandaff. It closed in 1998 or something. I JOINED UP SEPT 13TH 1970. HomeIntro/HistoryIntroHistoryBuntingsSig LampsSemaphoreFlagsPennant NosMisc PhotosSparkersTransmittersReceiversRadio CallsignsEquipmentRefurbishmentSnippetsPortStarboardMidshipsCommunicationsHMS MercuryHMS GangesPhotos/Docs/BooksPhotographsCommunicatorPublicationsPersonalTeleprinter ArtTeleprinter ArtSearchIn Memory ContactLinks e.g. Hms ganges hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy Hms ganges Stock Photos and Images (117) See hms ganges stock video clips Quick filters: Black & white hms ganges shotley RM CXG428 - Derelict entrance to HMS Ganges Shotley Gate, Suffolk, England RF AXTCC0 - HMS Ganges mast,suffolk, england DO NOT TRY TO SIGN IN until you have joined the Association. If that doesnt sound too bad, the wind on the ground was ferocious when I visited. Thank you Ganges, you made a Real person of me. It closed in 1998 or something. It seems they were ok as long as they landed on their heads!If not the got Trooped for Leaving Gash on the ground! Little did I know. 1966 - Royal Navy in Singapore. var day=mydate.getDay()
View Gallery. dailyinfo[15]=' Fregattenkapitaen Alexander ERDMANN S.M.S. Our instructor was POMEM Flack. 1967 - Margaret Taylor. aside1 {width: 220px;padding-left: .5rem;margin-left: .5rem;float: right;text-align:center;} HMS Ganges Photo Tour. She had her keel scraped and the Boys were transferred to either HMS Lion or HMS Impregnable.Fourteen days later she moved, partly under sail, and in the company of HMS Arrogant, to Sheerness. Thank you Ganges for all the memories. I complained to NEDO in the Annexe in 1961 about lack of doors on the toilets, precluding privacy. View Gallery. 1967 - Pat Watterton. Would not have missed it for the world!!!! When I left the RN I bought a converted MTB that had originally been HMS Ariel. 1966 - Royal Navy in Singapore. Description of PhotographThis is an 8x12 inch Reproduction Photograph made from a 354553862141 She was finally broken up in 1816 after 34 years of service. 1968 - Going on leave. Great days. Royal Flying Corps who died 06/02/1918 LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY Belgium '
1968 - Alan Davis. 1966 - HMS Sirius Communications Department 1966 - Graham Lloyd and Denzil Bell. William Cornwallis who in 1795 as Vice Admiral, flying his flag in HMS Royal Sovereign, was famed for his skilful retreat from superior French forces at Belle Isle II and also Sir Francis Laforey who later commanded HMS Spartiate at the Battle of Trafalgar. Whenever I hear the term culture shock I think of my 1st few weeks at Shotley. In July 2006 the Secretary of State intervened and rejected all plans! In Bootle I was starting my first year at the I cant find out exactly how high it is various websites say its between 130 and 150ft high. In 1927 HMS Ganges was sold out of service on 31st August 1929 and broken up the following year. That is damn high. HAWKE DIV . 1968 - RO Joseph Iche showing how to salute 1968 style. Pages of photographs PO was called something like Hayjhans saw him again as a Sub Lt at RNAS Abbotsinch in 1963 (now Glasgow Airport) still swaggering and still a st! I would love to walk through the main gate at Ganges again, before it falls apart completely. HMS Ganges (1782) was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1782 and broken up in 1816. I think at one stage you could go to Gnges from 12 years old (not certain about this). Yes we had to go up the mast, our class did two mannings for Royal Visits (Parents day) Maker photographer : Fisk, R A, Mr On November 11th, with 500 Boys on board she was move to Harwich in convoy with HMS Hearty. Find Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and TikTok profiles, images and more on IDCrawl - free people search website. I remember too well a suicide and several attempts plus those who went over the wall only to be rewarded on their apprehension with the cuts over a backless chair. TAKE CARE. Royal Field Artillery who died 10/02/1917 DOIRAN MEMORIAL Greece '
And kids had to climb it when they were training in the navy. sad its gone but would never had survived Human Right Brigade of today. //-->, By I think my most strident memory was sitting in the Gymnasium in late December 1971 with all the other nozzers staring up at the Kipling poem and waiting for the bus to take me to Ipswich railway station for the trip home for Christmas. Joined ganges september 1964 (giant recruitment) 1966 - Royal Navy in Singapore. 1968 - Sirius Comms Dept 1968. Raymond Marvell. Canadian Railway Troops who died 09/02/1920 HALIFAX (MOUNT OLIVET) CEMETERY Canada '
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Ganges training establishment. June 4th 1962 is a day I will never forget, I was driven into the Annexe at HMS Ganges in an old blue Tilly, with 3 other lads after a train journey from Darkest Devon. He said it was pretty tough, but it gave the boys an incredible background and training that served them throughout their careers. So please check. Son serving at Faslane in S/Ms. I have no idea what my entry or class number was & is not recorded on my docs. var fontend = ''
of boys. All the pics bring back memories. I will not waffle on, except to say who I remember, Gessler the RPO who used to lurk in the shadows, while you were going back and forth for scran,, but you could always see his stomach sticking out. Captains of HMS Ganges The list of Captains of the first and second sea going and later HMS Ganges boys training ships at Falmouth and Harwich were drawn up by Commander William H Nicholson the last Captain prior to the renaming of the second HMS Ganges to HMS Tenedos in 1906. Citrus fruit and mangoes are the principal fruits under consideration. The last time I did that was in 1964 when I left Grenville 22 mess to go to Condor for bombhead training. It must have been due to a bad cold coming on and I recall being made to gargle from a jug of disinfectant every morning, overseen by a nurse in stiffly starched uniform. 1967 - HMS Mercury Dining Hall. I have it saved as a PDF file. His first ship was the destroyer HMS CARYSFOOT and he served in her in the Far East Fleet based in Singapore. Royal Scots who died 16/02/1919 ARBROATH EASTERN CEMETERY United Kingdom '
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