NAVY NEWS, JULY 2008 11
From virtual
● Model Tuuli Shipster delivers the
fi rst copies of the new Bond book,
guarded by Royals and sailors
Meet, greet and
to real
Picture: PO(Phot) Flo Foord
zip past the Fleet
INTERNET users may have
already visited the Royal Naval
Museum’s website ‘exhibition’
IF YOU were not one of the 200,000 people who watched
celebrating the deeds of the 20th-
Pompey parade the FA Cup around the city after their historic
Century RN.
triumph, there’s a chance to see the legendary trophy again this
For the non-computer literate
month.
– and for those who like to
The Premiership side are allowing the cup out of their cabinet
pass their time not staring at a
and putting it on display in the naval base throughout the three
screen – the virtual ‘exhibition’
days of the Meet Your Navy festival (July 25-27).
has become something tangible
It will be the centrepiece of the club’s youth academy display
with the creation of a major
where potential stars of the future will be chatting to visitors
new display at the museum in
and posing for pictures with the trophy.
Portsmouth’s historic dockyard.
The cup, magnifi cent though it is, isn’t especially large...
Like its web-based cousin, Sea
unlike one replica Pompey shirt which will be fl own over the
Your History is a showcase of the
naval base during the festival.
actions of men and women in all
Portsmouth Harbour natives might remember seeing the strip
branches of the Senior Service
– 180ft x 120ft – just before the cup final when it was flown over
from the age of pre-dreadnoughts
the city.
to Harrier carriers and stealth
For non-football fans, there are a few ships to see: confirmed
frigates.
at the event are strike carrier HMS Illustrious, destroyer
And like the internet
Gloucester, frigates Campbeltown, Argyll, Westminster and
exhibition, the real thing is based
Richmond, minehunter Hurworth and survey vessel Enterprise.
on the experiences of those
Foreign visitors lined up range from Japanese training ship
who were there through diaries,
Kashima and her escorts Asagiri and Umigiri, a Danish frigate
letters, recollections, and official
and Brazil’s sail training ship Cisne Branco.
documents drawn from private
Not all the attractions at the three-day event will be
sources as well as the four Royal
sedentary.
Navy museums.
Marie Curie Cancer Care will be running a zip wire across
These personal experiences
part of the base, allowing you to slide across basins and dry
and anecdotes are accompanied
HMS Exeter’s a
docks from a height of 14 metres (46ft), coming safely to earth
by uniforms, kit, medals,
next to HMS Victory.
certificates, menus, cartoons,
The only proviso is that you must pay a registration fee of £15
photographs – all the typical
and raise at least £100 for the charity to take part in the slide.
mementos and souvenirs of
More details can be found at www.mariecurie.org.uk/events/
a career in the RN or Royal
adrenaline/zipwire/zip_wire_portsmouth_naval_base.htm.
Marines.
Tickets for Meet Your Navy are available from tourist
To put an even greater human
information centres in the city, via www.meetyournavy.co.uk
face, or rather voice, on the
or on 0871 230 5582.
exhibition, visitors can listen
Faulks for good
And talking of maritime festivals, we have not one but two
to veterans recounting their
offers for readers looking to attend the Southampton Boat
experiences.
Show this September 12-21.
“The exhibition and the
The show marks its 40th birthday in 2008 and is
website are just two steps in
hoping 135,000 people will help it celebrate. See www.
an exciting journey,” explained
southamptonboatshow.com for more details about what’s in
Dr Colin White, RN Museum
store.
director. A SPEEDBOAT. A leggy
Bentleys whisked the copies off to enormous pleasure” to readers
Our readers can enjoy a £3 discount off the standard ticket
“Over the next three years we
price of £15 by calling the hotline on 0844 209 0333 and quoting
blonde. A couple of
Piccadilly for sale to the public. and moviegoers for half a century.
will be developing plans for a
‘Navy News’.
completely new wing dedicated to
helicopter gunships. A
The event marked the centennial As for Exeter (the spy served
of the birth of Bond’s creator, who on the previous Exeter during
The offer excludes the press and preview day on September
the story of the 20th Century RN
bevy of Bentleys. And a penned a dozen novels and nine his naval career), she was paying
12. Two children aged 15 and under will be admitted free for
and the men and women who
naval offi cer with three
short stories featuring the naval a visit to the capital – and paying
every adult ticket purchased. Service personnel will also enjoy a
served in it.”
£3 discount if they bring their ID cards with them.
gold rings on his sleeve.
commander/spy. her dues to the Constable of the
If you cannot get to
If paying isn’t your thing, we have five pairs of tickets to give
Portsmouth to see the exhibition,
Yes, Bond is back and today’s
To commemorate the occasion, Tower, handing over a barrel of
away. Just tell us the name of the legendary liner which left
the internet version continues
sailors and marines were on hand
the Fleming family commissioned rum to the governor of the Tower
Mr Faulks – author of numerous of London in a ceremony dating
Southampton in 1912 and sank on her maiden voyage after
to run at www.seayourhistory.
to launch the latest saga in the
bestsellers including Charlotte Gray back to the Middle Ages.
colliding with an iceberg.
org.uk.
long-running saga of Britain’s
and the WW1 novel Birdsong – to History actually dictates that
E-mail your answer to marketing@navynews.co.uk or write
Meanwhile, across the water in
most famous secret agent.
write a new Bond novel imitating ‘two roundlets of wyne’ should be
to Southampton Boat Show Competition, Marketing Manager,
Gosport, Prince William visited
The fi rst seven (007 – geddit?)
his creator’s style. presented to the Tower as a toll –
Navy News, HMS Nelson, Portsmouth PO1 3HH. Entries must
the RN Submarine Museum to
copies of the new Bond book Devil
For those familiar only with but that subsequently became a
reach us by mid-day on August 18 2008. Usual Navy News
highlight fundraising efforts to
May Care were delivered under
the big-screen Bond, his literary barrel of the RN’s favourite tipple.
competition rules apply.
conserve HMS Alliance.
RM and RN escort initially to
counterpart is similar in many ways. The ancient ceremony ended
The elements have taken
HMS Exeter, moored in the Pool
He lives the good life, grapples a good 300 years ago – the sheer
their toll of the post-war boat,
of London, then on to a bookstore
with Johnny Foreigner villains and volume of traffi c on the Thames
which has been on display at
in Piccadilly.
enjoys plenty of action (between meant that there was no time for
the museum for almost three
Commandos and sailors in a
the sheets and otherwise), but is such elaborate festivities.
decades.
Pacifi c RIB ferried the books – and
also a much darker character, and But in recent times, the dues
An extensive restoration
model Tuuli Shipster (yes, that is
more vulnerable. have been resurrected with full
programme began last October
her real name, although it could
Mr Faulks says these ingredients British pomp and ceremony.
and is expected to run for two
have been concocted by Fleming)
can be found in Devil May Care – And so it was that sailors from
years, with Prince William
carrying them in a specially-
such as the glamorous Bond girl HMS Exeter marched up to the
agreeing to become the appeal’s
commissioned indestructible case
with the exotic name, Scarlett west gate of the Tower, led by
patron.
– along the Thames to Exeter, with
Papava, and the disfi gured villain the Band of HM Royal Marines.
During his visit to the museum,
two 702 NAS Lynx from the Black in the shape Dr Julius Gorner who The Yeoman Gaoler (the second
the prince – Commodore-in-
Cats display team standing guard has a monkey’s paw for a hand most senior Beefeater) challenged
Chief Submarines – paid his
overhead. (and being a dastardly type he also their entry, before the sailors and
respects at the memorial to the She presented the book to cheats at sport, the cad). musicians marched around to
5,300 submariners lost in the Exeter’s CO Cdr Paul Brown, The result, believes the author Tower Green to pay their dues.
Silent Service from 1904 to the author Sebastian Faulks and the is “an affectionate homage to a ■ Devil May Care is published by
present day. family of Ian Fleming, before the playful character who has brought Penguin, priced £18.99
MINEHUNTER HMS Ledbury is set for NATO gunships and terrorists on the jetty (just as
duties in the Med after completing rigorous the ship was delivering a recovered mine)
A vic-
training in Scottish waters.
tory and Victory
all contrived to make it an ‘interesting and
The last act before being ready to take challenging’ few weeks for the Hunt.
her place in (the snappily-titled) Standing And a few weeks which she sailed through
NATO Mine Counter-measures Group 1 earning a ‘very satisfactory’ from those
was a spell of trials set by the Flag Offi cer FOSTies, who aren’t easily pleased.
Sea Training off war-torn Brownia and Passing FOST is nevertheless something of
Mustardia (more commonly a hurdle, so it’s nice to be able to let your hair
known as Arran and down… by running a half-marathon over hill
Kintyre). and dale… and beach… and sand dunes.
Although mine Eight Ledburyers (made up noun – Ed) took
warfare is at the hub part in – and fi nished – the Mull half-marathon,
of the specialist raising £820 for Shine A Light, a children’s
training provided cancer charity.
by FOST, And with that, the ship could fi nally
Ledbury must celebrate. On her return to Pompey (via the
go through the Needles, pictured here), she hosted fi rst an
standard menu affi liates day for members of Ledbury Hunt
as well: fi re, as well as dignitaries from the Herefordshire
fl ood, suicide town and Ross-on-Wye Sea Cadets, then
bombers, hosted a families day for 60 loved ones who
attacs by jets were treated to displays from Lynx of 815 NAS
and helicopter in Sandown Bay and a barbecue on board.
PPlenty for Ledbury to Mull overlenty for Ledbury to Mull over
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