20 NAVY NEWS, NOVEMBER 2007
Liverpool
for the win
“AND THE players are making their way on to the that has been won by the football team five times
pitch at Anfield...” – many matelots have dreamed and now has permanent residence within Anfield’s
it, but HMS Liverpool’s football team got to live walls.
it during a visit to the home of Liverpool Football The club’s finance director Les Wheatley presented
Club. the warship’s team with an away football strip for
The destroyer’s Commanding Officer, Cdr Henry use.
Duffy, a Liverpudlian himself and an ardent football “To take HMS Liverpool’s football team to visit the
fan, said: “As a lifelong fan of Liverpool Football ground,” said Cdr Duffy, “made the day very special,
Club it was a real treat to visit Anfield – the scene of and given the personal dedication, teamwork, train-
many happy memories for me personally.” ing and professional excellence which both organisa-
During the visit the sailors enjoyed a guided tour tions display on a daily basis it is entirely appropriate
of the grounds, including dressing-roms, interview that we don the same kit as our namesake club.
booths, VIP function rooms, museum, dug-out and “I too hope my sailors can emulate in some small
the famous ‘Kop’ stand, before heading out on to the way the outstanding achievements of the ‘Mighty
legendary pitch through the players’ tunnel, touching Reds’.”
the famous ‘This is Anfield’ sign as they went. This was one of the last events for Cdr Duffy as
A true highlight was the opportunity for the proud CO of the Type 42 destroyer, which is now under the
sailors to lift the European Cup (pictured above) command of Cdr Craig Wood.
Painting
history
KELLY Rossiter (right) from
Mayfi eld School in Portsmouth
with fellow pupils visited the Royal
Naval Museum to see their artistic
efforts on display.
The students had been taking
part in an art workshop project
where they learnt about wartime
propaganda, then designed their
own poster for the modern Navy.
Commanding Officer of HMS
Victory Lt Cdr John Scivier
and WO Kevin ‘Snowy’ Winter
presented the pupils with T-shirts
featuring their own designs.
Picture: LA(Phot) Jannine Hartmann
Underwater author
Cornish gold
FRIGATE HMS Cornwall has
AS a boyish bookworm, Michael and was designed with the help of
earned a gold medal – well, a mini-
Rosen loved 20,000 Leagues Under young visitors.
ature Cornwall has at least.
the Sea. Years later, Michael, now The items on show are all
David Brown competed against
a well-known poet, author, and mentioned in 20,000 Leagues
an international field of model-
Children’s Laureate, accepted Under the Sea and there is even
makers to win a gold medal and
an invitation to open the new a narwhal’s tusk and a galley to
the H V Evans trophy for research,
exhibition at the Royal Navy cook in.
workmanship and presentation at
Submarine Museum. At the exhibition’s opening the Model Engineer Exhibition
“It was curiosity which brought Michael met pupils from with his 1/96 scale model of the
me here,” he told Navy News. “I Newbridge Junior School in type 22 frigate.
loved Jules Verne as a boy and Portsmouth and Leesland Junior He said: “I could not have done
I’ve always been fascinated in School in Gosport, and enthralled this without the invaluable help
underwater exploration and all them with accounts of his early life of the RN and DML, and in par-
things under the sea.” and his family. ticular Lt Cdr Paul Gilham and
The new exhibition, Fantastic So will his next children’s book CPOWEA David Bent, plus ex-
Vo y a g e s , explores the role of feature a submarine? “It’s quite Devonport dockyard shipwright
submarines in popular culture, possible,” he said. David Scoble.”
Dark Hawk flying
Family and friends on board HMS Illustrious enjoyed an aerial display from the Navy’s
Hawks, Hurricane and Spitfire during a day at sea. As well as the flying displays, the
families were entertained by displays, tours and face-painting for the children.
Picture: LA(Phot) Pete Smith
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