42 NAVY NEWS, NOVEMBER 2007
Whitehaven rating
Sky is
the limit
helps recover yacht
at Inskip
CADETS from the Hull and York
units enjoyed an action-packed
week-long training camp at the
Sea Cadet Training Centre at
Inskip near Preston.
The 25 cadets, accompanied
by seven staff, were split into two
WHITEHAVEN unit was to help recover the sinking
hazard to others.” their boat, but were able to
teams, and were up against it
Whitehaven’s
James
called into action when a
vessel.
Jamie (21), who acts as the unit’s provide a crew,” said
from the start – the first day saw
catamaran started to sink
“The Coastguard know that
Boats Officer, went down to the Commanding Officer S/Lt (SCC)
‘rock-hugging’, otherwise known
harbour and used one of the TS
Keith Crowe RNR.
off the town’s harbour.
we are here and ready to give as rock-climbing and abseiling.
assistance if we can,” said Jamie. Bee powered boats to ferry part of
“We were more than happy to
In the following days the cadets
returns
PO(SCC) Jamie Mitchell
“Although the crew had already the Workington lifeboat crew out
provide the means of getting them
tried ‘Cowboys and Indians’ –
took the call from the local
been taken off there was obviously to the sinking catamaran.
to and from the boat.
archery and shooting – and a fire-
Coastguard, who requested a need to safely recover the boat “Because there was no danger
“Jamie was able to put two
fighting course, which involved
to school
the use of a Sea Cadet boat and ensure it did not create a to life the RNLI would not launch
members of the lifeboat crew on
water, mud, cheering and not a
board, secure the catamaran and
little sliding around on the grass.
then tow it into the outer harbour,
There was also orienteering on
REIGATE unit bandmaster James
where it was beached.”
the fells, and the highlight of the
Horner (pictured above) has
The 40ft vessel first got
week was the flying, when cadets
been accepted to join the elite
into trouble the previous night
could opt for scenic or the more
Band of the Royal Marines and off Sellafield, and both the St adventurous roller-coaster ride.
will travel to Portsmouth to enter Bees and Workington lifeboats Most had no need for the sick
the RM School of Music. responded to distress calls, taking bags, although one individual,
The PO will have musical off the crew who later returned to who had gone for ‘the full works’,
training for 18 months to two years their boat. started to look the wrong colour
before joining the band itself. They encountered further when back on terra firma.
James joined the unit when he difficulties in the early hours of The final day brought the usual
was 12, having been dragged along the following morning, and had to housekeeping chores – and a visit
as a ‘nipper’ as his father was the be taken off the boat again. to the Camelot theme park.
CO, and had himself joined the
Corps at 12.
He first started playing the Gun pull raises funds
drums and the bugle at the unit,
where he picked up the skills
A DOZEN members of the Scarborough unit took part in a sponsored
from more senior cadets and
gun and trailer pull to raise money for their activities.
the bandmaster, and learned the
The cadets, ranging in age from 11 to 17, pulled the equipment from
musical pieces by playing the
Scarborough lifeboat house to Ravenscar, a distance of 13 miles in six
letters A to G written on a piece
hours.
of paper or from memory rather
The gun and trailer were a smaller version of the Naval field gun and
than reading the music.
limber, weighing in the region of 150lbs.
He became so skilled that
On completion, the cadets camped overnight before being picked up
he became the National Bugler
the next morning.
Champion in 1998, though he has
never had a music lesson until a
year ago.
New HQ is a step closer
Royalist HUDDERSFIELD’S thriving unit, Planning permission was passed
which moved out its old base last in April 2007, but a number of
day out
year, has taken another significant obstacles began to present
step in what has become an themselves for the developers.
arduous uphill slog. Now one of these hurdles,
TEN members of the Marine
Since 1981, the 40-strong unit a flood defence plan, has been
Society and Sea Cadets Scottish
had been housed in two ex-Army completed and will allow the
Branch – the Sea Cadet Association
huts built in the 1940s at Snow developer to submit new plans.
of Scotland – enjoyed a day at sea
Island, beside the River Colne. “The Reserve Forces and
in TS Royalist.
A wooden building, to be built Cadet Association for Yorkshire
They sailed from Largs, and
for the unit on the same site at and Humberside have been
apart from an early shower, the
a cost of £220,000, has been exceptionally generous in the
weather was sunny and calm.
agreed, and cadets started fund- amount of support they have lent
By chance they met another tall
raising. us during this difficult period,”
ship, Tenacious, giving both ships
They have currently found said Commanding Officer Lt Phil
a chance for a photo-shoot.
around half the total cost. Jones.
Cadets who had only joined the
Royalist the previous day showed
what can be achieved in such a
brief period of time, demonstrating
the value of the training to the
● LCs Laura Hartwell and Adam Parry of Hinckley unit participate in a sponsored 24-hour sailing race
visiting party.
in aid of injured Service personnel from the Iraq and Afghanistan confl icts. The event, which raised over
A donation was made by the
£2,000, was staged at Bosworth Water Park in Leicestershire. Hinckley entered its Bosun dinghy, and
branch to offshore funds.
also provided its ASC, crewed by cadets and staff, to get the injured Service personnel afl oat
65th anniversary marked – to the day
What’s all this then?
BARNSLEY unit celebrated its 65th The original CO’s son and daughter, Peter
STEVENAGE cadets have been given a
anniversary exactly 65 years to the day after Goodyear and Jean Copley, both attended,
tour of the Hertfordshire Police Contact
it opened its door for the first time. and were joined by the unit’s youngest junior
Centre in Welwyn Garden.
More than 50 ex-cadets joined the cadet, Rosie Clark, to cut the unit’s birthday
Sgt Linda Cullen-Moir took the cadets
celebrations, and were treated to three cake.
and staff through the control room,
displays by the current contingent – a guard Mr Goodyear said how proud his father
explaining how calls are dealt with.
display, a fire-fighting display and a “slightly would have been to know the unit was still The visitors also saw a video showing
different” display of drill by the juniors. going strong. the work of the county force.
Some senior cadets also laid on a static The evening was such a success that Their trip ended with them having a close
display in one of the classrooms, showing the the “Old Diomedions” has been set up for look at a police car and its equipment.
activities that cadets undertake today. former cadets and staff.
● From left: St Dunstan’s School CCF cadets Alex Rush, Dominic
Seaside
Folkestone cadet takes centre stage
Cottrell and Ella Richards with some of the rubbish which they
recovered from a lake in Kent
rendezvous
FOLKESTONE cadet Louise Orfila has
sung with the Central Band of the Royal
WELWYN and Hatfield
Lake is scoured
unit British Legion.
headed to Dorset for a week, where Following her performance in We Will
THREE Naval cadets from St they plunged into a lake which
they linked up with Bridport unit, Rock You earlier this year Louise was
Dunstan’s College joined a had never been dived before.
who lent the Home Counties cadets invited to sing with the band under the
group of scuba divers to clean up Along with 19 other frogmen,
their boats for the duration. direction of Capt David Cole RM (Rtd).
one of the Leybourne Lakes near the three dived to seven metres in
Sailing and pulling on the River The band played a piece written by
Maidstone in Kent. water of five metre visibility, and
Brid, and heading out to sea in Louise, as part of her school studies, and
The trio – Ella Richards, Alex pulled several items to the surface,
a power boat were among the arranged by Capt Cole in remembrance of
Rush and Dominic Cottrell – including a wide-screen TV, traffic
highlights of the week – as was Great War victims.
recently passed their Professional cones and car tyres.
some time soaking up the sun on Capt Cole said: “Louise has a very
Association of Diving Instructors They also found a football,
Weymouth beach, after which a professional attitude and is a great role (PADI) Open Water Scuba Diving which led to an impromptu
visit was made to the Weymouth model for the youth of today. qualification. underwater kickabout.
SCC Training Centre. “She has a wonderful singing voice and So they put their skills to the A number of oil drums on the
The Hertfordshire cadets were is very talented to have produced such test as part of a PADI initiative lake bed were left in situ when it
particularly pleased to be invited a moving piece. She has a great future called Project Aware, encouraging was found that shoals of fish had
to parade with the local contingent ahead of her and we look forward to divers to be ecologically friendly moved in to use them as shelter.
on Tuesday and Thursday nights. working with her again.” and help protect the environment The students plan to return to
CPO(SCC) Terry Wilmott, The band are recording a new album for in which they dive. the lake to monitor water quality,
Officer-in-Charge of Welwyn and the remembrance services, and Capt Cole Accompanied by Gemma and to check on its suitability as
Hatfield, said he hoped his team has invited Louise to include her song. Barlow, a teacher at St Dunstan’s a habitat for freshwater mussels
would be able to return the favour Louise is recording an album of her and head of the RN section of the – colonies were found in the lake
by hosting a camp in their unit. own, due for release later in the year. ● Louise Orfi la singing with the Central Band of the RBL school’s Combined Cadet Force, during the clean-up dive.
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