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dailyinfo[24]=' Captain Denzil Robert THURSTON Air Force Cross Airship Training Wing (Cranwell). 1967 - Pat Watterton. 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.Amongst the Captains should be noted the Hon. Ships - In which we served. As you are about to see, 1954 went down in HMS Ganges history as a year without precedent throughout the period 1906 to 1976, namely its entire history - in short, more boys ran away from HMS Ganges in 1954 than at any other time and transcended the numbers returned by HMS St Vincent by a huge margin. I passed out, but transfered to the Bootnecks(!!!) Still, I was close. 1966 - Royal Navy in Singapore Good fun. 1967 - David Axford. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. aside {width: 220px;padding-left: .5rem;margin-left: .5rem;float: left; text-align:center;} How interesting to read all the comments. In command rank - Commander - unless stated otherwise, In command rank - Captain - unless stated otherwise. dailyinfo[13]=' S/8943 Rifleman John William BENTLEY 3rd Bn. I gradually came to realize that while I saw the RN as an institutionalised lifestyle I actually loved being at sea. !,ran towards the football field the next day and my knee gave out again,l thought this homesickness is getting worse! The first HMS Ganges was a 74-gun ship, originally named Bengal, built by the East India Company, informally known as John Company, on the Thames and presented to the British Government in 1779. One of the tasks they had to do was climb the fearsome 150ft mast, with no safety nets or harnesses.The naval base is long gone but the mast is still there. My new life has been a cracker. 1966 - Royal Navy in Singapore. HMS Ganges Museum is dedicated to the 160,000 boys who went through the gates as boys and marched out as men, from its inception as a Royal Navy Training Establishment in 1905 to its closure in 1976. 1966 - Royal Navy in Singapore. 1967 - Margaret Richardson. Being on 'active service' has nothing to do with his CWGC commemoration. Can't imagine that being allowed these days. So sad to see it derelict but I guess the history still very much remains. naval diehards clung on to ganges wrongly. It was at Shotley in Essex, opposite Harwich. dailyinfo[15]=' Fregattenkapitaen Alexander ERDMANN S.M.S. HMS Ganges was a shore establishment for boy seamen. HMS Ganges trained 160,000 boys between 1905 and 1976. A researcher has suggested that as the photo appears to show the Fitzroy Stevedoring Company premises beyond the Brilliant, the location must be Woolloomooloo. HMS Ganges was the shore training establishment for boy entrants. h2 {font-family: calibri; font-size: 30px; text-align:center; color: #000000;} William (Robbie) Roberts. Started off in Drake 38 before transferring to Grenville 22. 1967 - Singapore Jan 1967. There I was a babyfaced matelot of 16, let loose in the real world, a girl in every port, and once around the world before I was 20. Uit Wikikids < Gebruiker:Rots61 | StatistiekenGebruiker:Rots61 | Statistieken. HMS Ganges was a training ship and later stone frigate of the Royal Navy. LEADING COOK Served from 1959 - 1970 Served in HMS Ganges. i was there in 1964 -65, Collingwood 34 in short covered way Yes thats where we were! Those members who have submitted a website joining form will receive an email from the webmaster giving log in details, this email might end up in your Junk/Spam Mail. started off in the annexe in dreadnought mess and ironicly my last sub before leaving mob was dreadnouht, Fess, Thank you for your response to my comment. I dont reminisce on Ganges at all. Visited HMS Ganges site in November 2009. I also remember Wally Beard as a very amusing sort of a person not the same could be said for Tommo, not many jokes cracked there!!! H.M.S. Was at Ganges 1960-61 Blake Div. These photos show the current state of the Ganges. 1966 - Royal Navy in Singapore. Great memories and sad to see it now. 1967 - HMS Hermes, Daniel Costello. 1966 - Royal Navy in Singapore. Thanks for all your replies fellas very interesting. 1968 - P. Anson. I joined Ganges in 1962. I now live in France and still dont like swimming! Picture Information. The first HMS Ganges was a 74-gun ship, originally named Bengal, built by the East India Company, informally known as John Company, on the Thames and presented to the British Government in 1779. Pages of photographs Kings Royal Rifle Corps who died 02/03/1915 YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Belgium ' 1966 - Royal Navy in Singapore. HMS ABDIEL ROYAL Navy Cap Tally Tallie Cap Band H.M.S. Collingwood 36 mess at the top of Benbow Lane. 1968 - Dave Coffin. dailyinfo[19]=' Lieutenant Colonel Harry LA TROBE CAMPBELL Distinguished Service Order, Territorial Decoration, Three times Mentioned in Despatches Royal Engineers who died 19/02/1919 BRISTOL (CANFORD) CEMETERY United Kingdom ' I have a grave in Lambourne Churchyard to A A A Adams Boy 2nd Class J/96948 who died 23.7.1020. Sign up for an eHive account to start cataloguing and sharing your collection online. e.g. 1967 - HMS London Comms Dept. This building was a Signal School apparently, which was created to teach flag signalling and telecommunications. 503 were here. As he was undergoing training he was effectively on Active Service,ie embodied in a Unit,& as his death is presumably a training accident or similar his death would presumably be considered "War Related". I left to join HMS Protector where I served my next two years and becme an adult 18 years old. dailyinfo[18]=' Nurse Hellen ILINE Russian Army who died 18/02/1920 MIKRA BRITISH CEMETERY, KALAMARIA Greece ' Maker photographer : Fisk, R A, Mr h6 {font-family: calibri; font-size: 17px; text-align:center; color: #000000;} if (dailyinfo[daym] != "") { document.write(fontstart+dailyinfo[daym]+fontend) } Still scary though. They were in quite a bad state, but some parts were still readable. Ganges. kept quite a lot of the work done by us lads !. h4 {font-family: calibri; font-size: 17px; text-align:left; color: #000000;} Browse 30 hms ganges stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. View Gallery. Nigel, I joined 28 days before you. If you have any images of the Ganges in its former glory please send to shotleypc@btinternet.com and we will add them to the site. Its so sad to see how it is now. 1966 - Royal Navy in Singapore. 6 Reserve Lorry Park Royal Air Force who died 28/02/1919 BELGRADE CEMETERY Belgium ' Hi Bruce, Yes I remember you, however, there are others that I dont. I have a great picture of me presenting flowers to the Captains wife, Mrs Ash during some boating escapade on the river. Thus began the training of Boys for the Royal Navy on HMS Ganges on the East Coast.With the arrival of HMS Ganges off the Suffolk coast work started on constructing the shore Establishment with the first buildings being Temporary Sick Quarters. 1966 - HMS Victorious Cricket Team. Find Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and TikTok profiles, images and more on IDCrawl - free people search website. Joined 30th Novenber 1971,31 Recruitment,Leander and then Anson.Remenber playing football and injuring my knee,went sickand was told by the Captain Surgeon that l was homesick! All the Best mate. In Bootle I was starting my first year at the I see that in the heading Main Block, three of the shots are actually of the CPO/PO A long way to fall, even with a safety net. Not a Member, then Application Forms are available, scroll down, under NOTICE BOARD, both Form A and B are required. Life as I knew it was about to change. 1968 - Sirius Comms Dept 1968. We may have some mutual memories? Leinster Regiment who died 27/02/1918 JERUSALEM MEMORIAL Israel and Palestine (including Gaza) ' Our instructor was POMEM Flack. ), You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. I was also a silver bugler in the bugle band and remember going to Portman road foootball stadium playing on the pitch at half time, and the Central messing Galley ie CMG used to be called the screamer because of the size of it and the echoes inside it. RE WILLIE SHAWS LETTER I JOINED JULY 66 RECRUITMENT 86 IS THE TINY YOU REMEMBER A SCOTS LAD CALLED TINY GILCHREST FROM EDINBRUGH I SAW HIM LAST YEAR LIVES IN ROSYTH NOW IM STILL IN TOUCH WITH A LAD WHO WAS IN THE NEXT INTAKE TO MINE 43 YEARS ON, I joined november 1967 Anson Div like many on here I have so many fond memories, so sad to see the way it is being left to decay, looking at the pictures I can still see myself there, good to see so many nice comments, anyone from 98 Rec drop me a line. 1969 - HMY Comms Dept. Later he would be signalman to Mountbatten and served on HMS Warspite, becoming CYS. The Rural Coffee Caravan Information Project, Mothers' Union - Shotley Peninsula Branch, Stour & Orwell Estuaries Management Group. 1967 - HMS Naiad Comms Dept. 1967 - Catherine Davies van Zoen an Jennifer Wood. Thank you Ganges for all the memories. was a backward swimmer and marched from the annexe to the pool every morning and evening. British MT Ben harold Smith in pool of london 1967 ship photo. #header {width:878px; margin:0px auto; border:0px solid #bbb; padding:10px; text align: center; } 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. Climbing the Ganges Mast. HMS Ganges was a shore establishment for boy seamen. Like him the GIs (GI Thompson in particular) and the PTIs were god and to be feared by all. It was also the year of the marriage of Princess Elizabeth, the abdication of Prince Michael of Rumania and Rumania becoming a People's Republic. Remember being woken up by 2 binlids being banged together and having to shave?? 433 sentences with 'flag captain'. 4th Bn. 1966 - Royal Navy in Singapore. dailyinfo[21]=' L/32287 Driver John Frampton GAZE "O" Bty. 1966 - Royal Navy in Singapore. Ganges could have been up-to-date easily, but the Brit class system got its anchor fouled up well. 27 Hms Ganges Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images Images Images Creative Editorial Video Creative Editorial FILTERS CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO 27 Hms Ganges Premium High Res Photos Browse 27 hms ganges stock photos and images available or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. 1968 - Tom Stewart (bottom left). I had occasion to spend a week there under observation after our bullying seamanship instructor (cant recall his name) hit me on the head after I had complained of suffering from a really bad headeache. They were brilliant to us and always very fair. In civvy street I became a qualified (CAA) aviation engineer and held many senior engineering appointments including Chief Engineer of HM Coastguard SAR Helicopter Service. On 5th May 1865 she arrived under tow at Devonport to be stripped of her guns and fitted out as a Training Ship for Boys.On 1st January 1866 the whole of the Boys on board HMS Wellesley were transferred to HMS Ganges at Plymouth and she arrived at Falmouth on 20th May 1866 and for the next thirty-three years was moored at various locations at Mylor, in Cornwall. Ganges, also known as Shotley Training Establishment, was a boys' training establishment at Shotley, Harwich. 1967 - David Erwin. Window ladder display 73 i think, met the duke! 1967 - HMS London. Would be good to meet up with our mess mates sometime. In 1927 HMS Ganges was sold out of service on 31st August 1929 and broken up the following year. A variety of photos from HMS GANGES the people, the place and ships we served on. Scattered around the site are various bomb shelters. Mastering all the usages of 'flag captain' from sentence examples published by news publications. 1966 - Lt Richard Kent HMS Llandaff. 1967 - HMS London. I really only started to enjoy life when actually in the Fleet Air Arm. Our DO was Lieutenant Commander James. I was a baby stoker in Grenville 1966/1967 86 recruitment, very sad to see these photographs, I am Scottish and always meant to visit the place again, great memories of a great time in my life, thanks for reminding me yet again, once a Ganges boy but still a ganges boy Thankyou. It closed in 1998 or something. All the pics bring back memories. 1966 - David Davis. h3 {font-family: calibri; font-size: 20px; text-align:center; color: #000000;} Photographs of various ceremonial aspects of HMS Ganges, I will live with the great memories of having had such a great time there, with such great people. eHive is developed by Vernon Systems. 1969 - John Green and Stevie Kerslake. I visited Ganges three years ago. My father was a signals boy at Ganges from March 1934 until June 1935 and, by a strange quirk of fate, I found his unique initials scratched on the end of my bed on the base frame. That year over 1000 boys went down with Asian Flu. Royal Flying Corps who died 06/02/1918 LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY Belgium ' There is some excellent footage of Ganges, albeit WWII era in one of Roland Smith's splendid Episodes of the Royal Navy videos (Part 3, Close up for action stations). I have it saved as a PDF file. Climbing past the devils elbow at the yard arm was a test for most but shinning up the last part of the mast to the button after ascending Jacobs Ladder was a lot tougher. The wrongs I witnessed and was subjected to taught me how NOT to treat people. Moored at Staines @ 1s.17d per foot, when I advertised her for sale I was delighted to meet two Royal Marines who told me they had been to Norway during WW2. 1966 - Royal Navy in Singapore. You can still see the infamous mast that all entrants had to climb. eHive is an innovative web-based system that will help you catalogue, organise and share your collection in a simple and secure way. 1967 - HMS London Comms Dept. Joined hawke division, straight into the intermess/ inter divisional boxing. 1966 - SGS Christchurch. Welcome to the HMS Ganges Association Website You need to be a fully paid up member of the HMS GANGES ASSOCIATION to join this website. More like this Course Class Senior Services Royal Navy Dads Suit Photos Blue Pictures Fathers HMS Raleigh new entries, with instructor CPO Smeeth (1962) G Grey Funnel Line (GFL) Course/Class Photos Back Row Front Row 1968 - HMS Llandaff Comms Dept. Well said Colin, I too had similar experiences, Collingwood Mess March 1961. would not have changed it though and am proud to support the HMS Ganges Association where many of our old oppos can be found. HMS Ganges Museum HMS Ganges Museum Is this your business? HAD SOME GOOD TIMES THERE. LEFT THE NAVY 1994 AS A POMEM ,WORKING AS APOSTMAN NOW. 1968 February - HMS Sea Eagle Comms Dept. 1966 - Royal Navy in Singapore. I complained to NEDO in the Annexe in 1961 about lack of doors on the toilets, precluding privacy. How many do you still remember. 1968 - Going on leave. It seems they were ok as long as they landed on their heads!If not the got Trooped for Leaving Gash on the ground! This was completed in 1903 and the decision was taken at that time to commence the construction of accommodation for the Boys ashore. Launched November 1821 and broken up 1930. to alan garland, yes there was a big hospital at ganges, but little used when I was there, also the Annexe was once a quarantine place for contagious illnesses, like Tb or similar scare. 1968 - HMS Llandaff Comms Dept. 1968 - Alan Murchie. Although I have no memories of Shotley as I was too small we have family photographs and I know we all enjoyed being there very much. However, if this lad was at a training establishment and not on active service how is it that he has a CWGC gravetsone ? How right you are, your picture made me go weak at the knees, I only made it to the second yardarm and that was pure hell, I was there in 1967/68, discipline was hard but fair, all Ganges recruits were know as TROGS (training recruits of Ganges) and trained there for 10 months before moving onto specialist job training, in my case Hms Mercury communications branch training. Inst. My D.O was a FAA pilot (Lt Lickfold) and had a strong empathy with him. See photo for condition This is a original Late 1990's Full Length 304817895258 face book me. var day=mydate.getDay() Family ww1 research. (The following is extracted from the book The Life and Times of HMS Ganges compiled by Dickie Doyle and available to purchase from the Museum Shop. 1966 - HMS Ursa DO NOT TRY TO SIGN IN until you have joined the Association. 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 used to have a heap of photos from our Ganges days but most were lost when I moved from one place to the next. Joined May 24th, 1966, 84 recruitment, was in Keppel 1 mess,received the cuts twice,very painful,used to sit on the button as often as I could what views, of all the time spent in the mob and places visited Ganges still holds the fondest memories,I later served on HMS Zest @ Euryalus, Joined Ganges October 25 1965 Collingwood 44 Mess. 1969 - Lt Ash (aged 95). What a turn of fate. Laid down in Bombay Dockyard. And kids had to climb it when they were training in the navy. 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. Brilliant way to start growing up [!]. Middlesex Regiment who died 25/02/1921 LADYWELL CEMETERY United Kingdom ' 1967 - Singapore. #footer {width:1100px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;border:0px solid #bbb; padding:6px; background-image: url("../../../media/webimages/cream.jpg"); } dailyinfo[27]=' 5778 Private William CUMMINGS 6th Bn. One has had an additional observation post built onto it which gives splendid views accross the estuary to Harwich and Felixstowe. The swimming pool was a nightmare as I was a backward swimmer and hated the PTIs and their poles with a vengence, left there and joined HMS Venus. 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. Regardless of the strict training and discipline nobody seems to have nothing but good to say of the place. My worst and best memories were of the pool. dailyinfo[14]=' 15697 Private William SWINDELL 10th Bn. Pablo Picasso, Madrid, red, 1930s.