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HMS Caledonia was first opened in 1937 and responsible for artificer apprentice training from 1937 to 1985, with many thousands of young men going through training. Following the consolidation of naval training in 1985, the site lost its training status with the former apprentice training moving to HMS Sultan in Gosport .
HMS Caledonia was a training ship launched in 1810 as the 98-gun second rate HMS Impregnable (1810). She became a training ship in 1862, was renamed HMS Kent in 1888, HMS Caledonia in 1891, and was sold for breaking up in 1906. HMS Caledonia was a cadet training ship, formerly the liner RMS Majestic (1914). She was transferred to the navy in ...
As a young artificer serving in HMS Caledonia 1947 . He began his career at the apprentice training establishment, HMS Caledonia and was subsequently selected for a commission and trained at Britannia Royal Naval College and the Royal Naval Engineering College in Manadon and Keyham.
Caledonia proved to be a very successful ship, and it was said that 'This fine three-decker rides easy at her anchors, carries her lee ports well, rolls and pitches quite easy, generally carries her helm half a turn a-weather, steers, works and stays remarkably well, is a weatherly ship, and lies-to very close.' She was 'allowed by all hands to ...
The University Royal Naval Units (URNU) (/ ˈ ər. n uː / UHR-noo, less commonly / ˈ ɜːr. n uː / ERR-noo) (formerly Universities' Royal Naval Units) are Royal Navy training establishments under the command of Britannia Royal Naval College, who recruit Officer Cadets from a university or a number of universities, usually concentrated in one geographical area.
Three years later on 22 September 1891, she was once again re-named, this time HMS Caledonia, and became a Scottish boys training / school ship moored at Queensferry in the Firth of Forth. As HMS Caledonia, she was to spend the next 15 years at anchor in the Firth of Forth as a training ship for boys. The ship was divided up for training by ...
HMS St Vincent meanwhile became a training establishment for officers of the Fleet Air Arm and an overflow for the Royal Navy barracks. A signal school was also established. A torpedo training section was opened on 22 July 1940. St Vincent reverted to being a boy's training establishment after the end of the war, and reopened as such on 1 ...
HMS Glory (R62) was a Colossus-class aircraft carrier of the British Royal Navy laid down on 27 August 1942 by Harland & Wolff at Belfast. [1] She was launched on 27 November 1943 [ 1 ] by Lady Cynthia Brooke, wife of the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.