Tag: Shipmates Submissions

Pat Whiley, Martin Williamson and myself, Keith Smith, decided that we would like to visit Ganges again so on 1st June we set out.

Three of us from Norwich RNA; Pat Whiley, Stuart Fidler and myself, Keith Smith, attended the annual Dunkirk veterans service at St Andrews church Honingham

The tour this year was to Holland, a country where our own county regiment did much campaigning during the last war. Four RNA members

As usual the annual D-Day commemoration service took place at the City Hall Cenotaph. Luckily the rain held off for virtually all the service

Shipmate is an honourable word that is earned, not given. Being called a shipmate is the highest compliment one can earn in their life.

Weeks before Christmas, the first tradition in Royal Navy Ships and Establishments to always take place was the stirring of the Christmas pudding. At

Their blood ran cold with horror, As they gazed on the awful scene, Their faces paled with anguish, … And their gills turned faintly

There once was a time in H.M. Ships, When the magic hour had come. The leading hands of every mess … … Prepared to

In ocean wastes no poppies blow, No crosses stand in ordered row, Their young hearts sleep; beneath the wave, The spirited, the good, the

5 members from Norwich RNA had a tour of Norwich City FC on the evening of the 30th August starting at 1830. The tour