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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 ...
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 ...
Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh Leslie Owen Thompson KBE FIMechE FREng (2 April 1931 - 11 December 1996) was a Royal Navy officer who served from 1946 to 1990. He acted as Chief Naval Engineering Officer from 1987-1989 and had the rare distinction of joining as an Artificer Apprentice and leaving as the head of his branch.
Aylen spent two years aboard the destroyer HMS Cossack at Hong Kong, and then at the training establishment, HMS Caledonia. Two years were spent on the Admiralty Interview Board, followed by a posting as the Home Fleet Engineering Officer, and then Admiral Superintendent at Rosyth Dockyard.
USS Caledonia was a brig, formerly HMS Caledonia, that the United States Navy captured during the War of 1812 and took into American service. The brig played an important role with the American squadron on Lake Erie, and was sold at the end of the war. [1] Caledonia was the first warship in the U.S. Navy to carry that name.
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.
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.