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The Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve Yacht Club (RNVRYC) is a Yacht club recognised as a Service Yacht Club in the United Kingdom. The Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve Yacht Club was founded in 1947, [1] two years after the Second World War reached its conclusion. The Yacht club has a warrant to wear the UK's special undefaced blue ensign. [1] [2]
It was founded as the RNVR (Auxiliary Volunteers) Club after World War I, for serving and retired officers of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR). It leased interim premises from the Marlborough Club until 1946, when it acquired the Hill Street current townhouse with the financial assistance of the Astor family .
Women began to join the Royal Navy in 1917 with the formation of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS), which was disbanded after the end of the First World War in 1919. It was revived in 1939, and the WRNS continued until disbandment in 1993, as a result of the decision to fully integrate women into the structures of the Royal Navy.
The NTC’s first ‘unit’ was Training Ship Nautilus in Brighton, based at the old Richmond Road School. The unit took its name from HMS Nautilus, which had been Froëst-Carr's first seagoing ship in the Royal Navy. TS Nautilus is still open and serving local youth in Brighton. This unit comprised 140 cadets and just 2 other officers.
The NCS is by far the smallest of the four components of the Naval Service: in September 2017 it amounted to 180 full-time trained personnel. [10] The Royal Navy had a strength of around 22,500 regular personnel and the Royal Marines around 6,600. [10] The combined Royal Navy and Royal Marine reserves amounted to around 2,700 personnel. [11]
The Army and Navy Club in London is a private members' club founded in 1837 for British Army and Royal Navy Officers, it also known informally as The Rag. [1] The Club offers Military membership to anyone who holds or has held a Commission in the British Armed Forces or in Commonwealth Forces, the club also now accepts applications for Non Military membership.
RNA Bermuda Branch, HMS Malabar, and Sea Cadet Remembrance Day ceremony at HMS Jervis Bay memorial at Hamilton, Bermuda. The Royal Naval Association (RNA) is an association of current and former British Naval Service personnel (Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Women's Royal Naval Service, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service, Royal Naval Reserve, Royal Marines Reserve, Royal Fleet Auxiliary ...
The Naval and Military Club, known informally as The In & Out, is a private members' club located in St James's Square, London. It was founded in 1862 for officers of the Navy and Army . It now also accepts female members, and members who have not served in the armed forces, but continues to observe service traditions.