I had thought that our group were the only sailors, if we dared call ourselves that, in this annexe, but I was soon to discover there was a continuous rotation of faces, each at various stages of initiation, a small factory taking in baby civilians at one end and throwing out almost sailors into the real HMS Ganges at the other. July 5 The old HMS Ganges sails out of Harwich Harbour. http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/hms-ganges-swimming-pool-shotley-may-2015.t96792, Anniversary Toast - HMS RALEIGH 25th Oct 2009, Telegraph: "Captain Peter Grindal Obituary", Future Ford vehicles could repossess themselves, 10 myths told by Covid 'experts' now debunked. There was also a degree of sexual abuse going on at Ganges, but we boys were too scared to ever complain or report such incidents. ', and he replied that it was the first time he had a warm bed, three hot meals a day, and a roof over his head that didn't leak. Mr Davis added: They have had the last conditions, including the fire hydrants agreed. The HMS Ganges site was initially opened in 1904 acted as a boys training facility for the Royal Navy. We were ordered to turn around and bend over, if the instructor was satisfied we were clean, we were allowed out. interesting .. photos of the old pool. Martin Foster, 54, of Haig Road, Uxbridge, had already admitted two charges of fraud by abuse of position. Down the road we proudly thundered, the first time any of us had seen the outside words since the day of our arrival. In the first week of January it was snowed even harder and it snowed until March. Realizing his mistake he fought back and with no way out he had no choice but to work his ticket. The site was closed in 1976 and was used as a maaried quarter estate by the RAF. She was established as a boys' training establishment in 1865, and was based aboard a number of hulks before moving ashore. The Admiralty decided that the shore base should bear the name of the original training ship, HMS Ganges. One not only suffered the punishment such as doubling up and down the steps of laundry hill with a 303 rifle held high. On October 28 the White Ensign was lowered for the last time and the ships figurehead was transferred to Royal Hospital School, Holbrook. Tangible progress to transform a former Suffolk naval training base into nearly 300 homes, a sports park, shops and a GP surgery could be seen once the coronavirus lockdown is over. View of the iconic mast at the former HMS Ganges site in Shotley Gate. Looking pretty in candy-striped pyjama bottoms and naked chests, we were ordered across the parade ground, through the snow and ice, to the 'heads', that grown-up potty land, which had neither doors nor partitions around the bowls for privacy, to partake in our morning ablutions, a most embarrassing experience. It had been HO (Hostilities-only) traing during the war. A planning application for the site was submitted and outline permission was granted in 2015. In 1907, its famous 143ft (44m)-high training . While the training ship was originally based in Cornwall, she was moved to Harwich, and then Shotley in the 1890s, in order to be closer to a centre of population. . Report . Coronation Day of George VI. Welcome to our next documentary, investigating the decaying remains and iconic abandoned swimming pool of HMS Ganges Royal Naval training school, as well as . HMS Ganges was a "stone frigate" or land-based institution for the Royal Navy, and between 1905 and 1976 was one of the key training bases used to prepare sailors to defend Great Britain. Im quite sure few if any boys receiving cuts ever thought to run away again. If you have a complaint about the editorial content which relates to He deserted on numerous occasions and willfully disobeyed orders . contact IPSO here, 2001-2023. I knew that once the weather was respectable, when it was no longer dangerous, my skinny little skeleton would be transported, step by trembling step, up that perilous rigging. Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History 13 March 1653 - Death of Simon de Vlieger (c. 1601, Rotterdam - buried 13 March 1653, Weesp) Simon de Vlieger (c. 1601, Rotterdam - buried 13 March 1653, Weesp) was a Dutch designer, draughtsman, and painter, most famous for. Some 100 boy-sailors were in the canteen, chewing and chattering; clattering knives forks and spoons against plates and bowls. It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times. It began snowing on Boxing Day. The water was freezing cold, we never had hot water. CHARGE CHIEF PETTY OFFICER (WEA) Served from 1974 - 1997 Served in HMS Ganges. "We're hoping that we can get some of the money back from him, but we don't know if that's going to be possible.". This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. contact the editor here. Im here as my Son (15) wants to join the RN - Wellbeck route AIB soon. The mast has been a local landmark since it was. This was followed by a leap from the diving board, as high as any tree I'd ever climbed, wearing the waterlogged boiler suit and a lifejacket. Through the year the training was intense, probably a good thing, it gave us little time to regret joining the navy. Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services. contact the editor here. HMS Ganges Museum is dedicated to the 160,000 boys who went through the gates as boys and marched out as men, from its inception as a Royal Navy Training Establishment in 1905 to its closure in 1976. Drake 39 mess At least the cubicles in the heads had doors on this time. 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Dave Walton RN retired. Didn't like it, there are better ways of teaching than violence, but it hardened me up and made me self disciplined. Registered in England & Wales | 01676637 |. The HMS Ganges Museum previously said restorers would remove the wooden part of the mast for refurbishment off site and they would then check the condition of the steel lower mast. In 1907, its famous training mast was erected on the parade ground. Yes, I got it wrong! Picture: SARAH LUCY BROWN (Image: Archant). Picture: CLAGUE ARCHITECTS, Independent Babergh District councillor for Ganges, Derek Davis. I was so fearful of that oncoming event I was becoming a nervous wreck, each night reading the next day's daily orders, wondering if tomorrow would be the day I crapped my pants in public. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. As Rudyard Kipping wrote in his famous poem IF the you will be a man my son. We can reunite you with your friends who served at HMS Ganges and we have a wealth of information on different units, bases and ships in the site. Picture: CLAGUE ARCHITECTS, Aerial artist's impression of one of the green spaces earmarked for the former HMS Ganges site in Shotley Gate. Jim Gitsham, chairman of the Shotley branch of the HMS Ganges Association, said: "Members will be delighted that he's going down. Jon Sparks. Richard Dunn. St George IOM Boys training 3/5/45 Christmas leave 45 took all kit and returned to Ipswich station, then by the ubiquitous 3 ton Bedford to Shotley where we reopened HMS Ganges as a boys establishment. The latest development means that construction work could start immediately, however, due to the coronavirus outbreak, progress has been delayed. For spite I think, because it wasn't compulsory. Sad to see such an establishment close as it was so full of history and meant so much to so many. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. So as I have said already, we kept our heads down aiming for that final day when wed be drafted to a ship. Picture: CLAGUE ARCHITECTS (Image: CLAGUE ARCHITECTS). He was sentenced at Portsmouth Crown Court. HMS GANGES 6th May 2009 - YouTube. Several tales about bullying and the harsh regime generally, not so much about the famous and frequent official canings. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Martin Foster was treasurer for veterans who served at HMS Ganges training base in Sufffolk. It may not display this or other websites correctly. Back in the mess, this safe haven shielding us from those torturous sounds, the junior instructors' suspiciously cheerful faces greeted us. Frederick "Ben" Rodgers author of "Lily & Me", "The Royal Navy & Me" and collector of Rover automobiles, Review from Newfoundland CraigChurchill. Sailors' uniforms were a familiar sight in our area until HMS Ganges closed in June 1976. The facility remained there until its closure in June 1976, ( Royal Naval Detention Quarters RNDQs Portsmouth), Listen to No Flowers for Geordie on SoundCloud. My DO was so unforgetable I can't remember his name, but he ponced around with his handky up his sleeve and a curled lip. HMS GANGES AT HIGHNAM COURT, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, 1940 - 1942. Change). For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Today lots of those instructors (JIs and Badgeboys included) would be in front of the beak for various abuses, harassment and bullying. 1905. Data returned from the Piano 'meterActive/meterExpired' callback event. Used to have chats with old Tick-Tock and RPO Salmon gave me my 1 postal order when the max was really ten bob. During the third disastrous week, it spent so much time on the deck I thought I might as well leave it there! He was quite good too. On the parade ground the order went something like On the command fix! The left hand went behind the cheek of your left buttock and twisted the bayonet and scabbard upward. She remained in service at RNTE Shotley until October 1976. what an incredible article, thanks for that dave, how far did you get up that mast? Free (donations towards running costs are welcome) According to the HMS Ganges Museum, her timbers were used to make objects including a grand staircase on an estate, and a cocktail bar in a small hotel, both in Devon. HMS Ganges in Shotley Gate, Suffolk, was a land-based training centre for recruits between 1905 and 1976. Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's Crowds of boys from HMS Ganges would visit Ipswich when they were given a day off from the harsh naval discipline at Shotley. Ronald Carr. contact IPSO here, 2001-2023. The showers at Ganges were just one bare room with several shower heads, no privacy. Was anything in this navy free from fear? HMS Ganges was the name given to several Royal Navy ships since from 1779, but in 1905 it was chosen as title for a new training base at Shotley Gate, near Ipswich where about 500 boy recruits were stationed. Learn how your comment data is processed. This site uses cookies. While I was going through the various calls I felt his hand slipping up the back of my shorts. Posted on February 5, 2019 by irishroverpei. When I say there was sexual abuse Im speaking from personal experience. Mr Youngman, who joined the navy aged 15 in 1965, said he had previously climbed up to the top of the mast but "couldn't wait to get back down". Rumour had it many years ago a boy did fall, bouncing off the safety net and through the Post Office roof. Nevertheless, as bad and as cruel as I have describe Ganges, I remain proud to call myself a Ganges Boy. I would imagine it will be a number of years before we see the final product but Ive seen first hand how quickly they can actually make progress once the builders get going. Anniversary Toast - HMS RALEIGH 25th Oct 2009, Telegraph: "Captain Peter Grindal Obituary", Future Ford vehicles could repossess themselves, 10 myths told by Covid 'experts' now debunked. Reaching high into the sunlit sky stood the mast; its yardarms spread wide like a giant crucifix. It would seem those boy-sailors who were seconds ago shoving sausages into smiling faces, had all disappeared into that terrifying building, and by the cries belching from its belly were being eaten alive. Unfortunately HMS Ganges is no longer there apart from a few buildings and what is left of the mast. She was based alternately in Falmouth, Harwich (from 1899) and Shotley (from 1905). A Gannett Company. BBC Blue Peter presenter John Noakes attempted to climb to the top of the mast. By creating an account you agree to us emailing you with newsletters and discounts, which you can switch off in your account at any time. HMS Ganges being broken up after training was transferred to the land base at Shotley (Image: HMS Ganges Museum). For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Each of us was required to construct a printing block using letters carved in wood. yes I was there in 92 .Essex, Nolfolk , Herts Suffolk and Cambs police all used it. and for those of you who served at ganges and who have't joined the association go on..nothing to lose and you'll find a lot of old shipmates there!! He was the officer that tested us when we endeavoured to qualify with a bosuns pipe. October, new Shore Establishment created and commissioned as Royal Navy Training Establishment, Shotley. Royal Navy 238217 Boy 2nd Class HMS Ganges II. . Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. #42. Data returned from the Piano 'meterActive/meterExpired' callback event. He was sitting on a stool and told me to stand in front of him and begin. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. [1] 1976. It may not display this or other websites correctly. As a subscriber, you are shown 80% less display advertising when reading our articles. It closed in 1998 or something. Heard so much about HMS Ganges though and it sounded very good for developing 'real sailors ' but as much as I hate to admit it I suspect it would have been too much for me . The boy was made lower his trousers, but kept is underpants on, he was made to bend over a chair. Indeed, I have never met a shipmate would ever claim otherwise. . CLICK ABOVE TO OPEN GALLERY. Every letter, every strip of tape had to be in a perfect line. contact the editor here. If not, you would do it repeatedly, until you dropped dead if necessary. (LogOut/ "They had a hard life, but they were fed and looked after. To get out of the showers we had to stand before our instructor legs apart arms raised for inspection. She was based alternately in Falmouth, Harwich and Shotley . My heart sank and my elation evaporated as I desperately tried to quash all fears of my body falling from the Devil's Elbow. Yes indeed, they were the best of times and the worst of times. Registered in England & Wales | 01676637 |. I knew only when it was over would I then be able to call myself a true Ganges Boy and, some years later, a real sailor. HMS Ganges was a training ship and later stone frigate of the Royal Navy. For breakfast porridge was on offer, that salt-coated gruel I'd been forced to eat every morning of my schoolboy days. If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can Engineer commander had been on Amethyst up the Yangtse and was quite sympathetic when he was OOD. I recall watching a boy, who had been thrown in the deep end of the swimming pool, struggling in the water while a sadistic instructor smiled, saying, 'Look what happens if you can't bloody well swim?' I allowed my head to tilt backward, sending my gaze to the very top, to the lightning conductor where the Button Boy stood on ceremonial occasions. I joined Ganges 30th June 1955 also as a boy telegraphist. One lad, a Geordie, was drafted early to a Destroyer bound for the Mediterraniann sailed from Plymouth He was washed overboard on his first few hours at sea..His parents never knew of the misery he suffered at Ganges. You are using an out of date browser. There was one hell to come, the Ganges mast! Review of a book of anecdotes about legendary UK boys' naval establishment HMS Ganges, which at any one time housed as many as 2,000 trainee sailors in their middle teens. Every letter of our names had to be perfectly in line. LEADING SEAMAN Served from 1961 - 1970 Served in HMS Ganges. The former treasurer of a naval veterans' organisation has been jailed for 18 months after nearly 80,000 was withdrawn from its accounts. Every new recruit was required to climb it, not to the very top but to the half moon, about thirty-feet from the top. He had the misfortune to be placed under the care of two particularly brutal and drunken instructors whose continual bullying and abuse proved too much for this emerging free spirit, . The Duke of Edinburgh visiting HMS Ganges in June 1973 Picture: ARCHANT (Image: Archant). Allegations of Abuse. This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. Read about our approach to external linking. We were ushered in as a group of naked boys and told to wash thoroughly. Tony Hayden. Picture: CLAGUE ARCHITECTS, The Duke of Edinburgh visiting HMS Ganges in June 1973 Picture: ARCHANT. Life at Ganges was recalled recently in The Evening Star when a book about the base by Alan Peck was published. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Read about our approach to external linking. My instructors were Nobby Clarke and Ted Roe. they said. GANGES; the ship had previously anchored out in the harbour below, at Shotley Gate, on the east coast opposite Harwich. HMS Ganges was a training ship and later stone frigate of the Royal Navy. Each time I let it go off it popped, falling to the deck with a clatter. JavaScript is disabled. 1906. Ken Smith, who now lives in Brighton, sent me memories of arriving at HMS Ganges in the severe winter of 1963 and his fear of the dreaded mast. After initial training we were marched from the training camp. Were you at HMS Ganges? Read about our approach to external linking. Boys were permitted to march through the streets of Ipswich with bayonets fixed. 1907. ", The honours board from the HMS Ganges, showing the victories of all the Royal Navy ships bearing the name (Image: HMS Ganges Museum). I joined up in 1968,three years after my brother, he hated it I was one off the sad ones that loved it, even the kit musters on the mast! Contents 1 Foundation and early history 1.1 Allegations of abuse 2 Ganges at Harwich 3 Ganges at Shotley 3.1 1906 changes 3.2 Later developments 3.3 First World War 3.4 Post war developments 3.5 Ganges in the Second World War 3.6 Postwar and closure 4 References 5 External links Work on the scheme, which would see 285 new homes, a 60-bed nursing home, a large retail space and areas for medical services, will not be started until a spine road through the site, which will take the bulk of construction traffic away from main roads, is built. Observer career path/ real life experience. Did my intro to Pusser at HMS Raleigh in ' 52 . The HMS Ganges training base, which opened in 1905, closed in 1976 and has remained derelict. Life on the ship was extremely hard, with a memorial in Mylor, Cornwall, recording the names of 53 people who died while training on it between 1866 and 1899. Old men on the HMS Ganges Facebook page and it helps keep alive my time spent there. H.M.S. HP10 9TY. He was fondling my right cheek as I tried to concentrate on pipping. After such a long time I think it will be a welcome relief for a lot of people. the top rung of a six foot ladder is about my limit! Mr Jones also offered reassurance around the historic mast, despite fears about its dilapidated state. Picture: CLAGUE ARCHITECTS (Image: CLAGUE ARCHITECTS). Welcome Guest. ", HMS Ganges as a warship (Image: HMS Ganges Museum). The inquiry was carried out by Hampshire Police after debit card transactions of 4,200 and cash machine withdrawals totalling 74,000 were made from the association's bank accounts between August 2010 and June 2012. Saw your message. the reason i remember the date is that it was my 15th birthday, We got shipped out to Suez in October 1956 cutting short our training by a couple of months. They looked smarter, more confident, or even downright dejected. Once the situation eases a bit there will be tangible progress to be seen.. The money belonged to the HMS Ganges Association for people who served at the former naval training base at Shotley Gate near Ipswich, Suffolk. Write to Dave Kindred, Kindred Spirits, Evening Star, 30 Lower Brook Street, Ipswich IP4 1AN. 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This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's HMS Ganges is a little bit different though, because they have to get the spine road in first and do some prep work. Outbreak of World War One. A Gannett Company. Steve Tarr. Artist's impression showing the view across a residential street at the redeveloped HMS Ganges site in Shotley Gate. Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services. Read about our approach to external linking. It was hoped that Developers Haylink Ltd would start work early this year, but their plans were scuppered by the Covid-19 pandemic. However, for most of us boys, qualifying meant we could wear the Bosuns chain with our uniform instead of a lanyard. She remained in service at RNTE Shotley until October 1976. Some boys failed the initial inspection which only lengthen their time in the freezing conditions. She was established as a boys' training establishment in 1865, and was based aboard a number of hulks before moving ashore. There was a way to bypass it for cowards like me, but God help you if you tried using it. When the Gunnery Instructor was finally satisfied, you put the lot back in your locker as before. Helpful Report abuse Kindle Customer Sorting The Wheat From The Chaff Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2014 She was established as a boys' training establishment in 1865, and was based aboard a number of hulks before moving ashore. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience the local community. An appeal by Woolverstone Parish Council was turned down two years later. The greatest fear was of messing up, this meant the whole class was punished. A Proceeds of Crime Act hearing is due to take place at Portsmouth Crown Court on 23 January. I came across a clip on youtube that really saddened me and it tells its own story about the UK as it is now and the real fact that such things as pride, standards etc have long been lost and decay and neglect are the order of the day, I do not need to walk very far from my home to see with my own eyes the evidence all around me. It had to be neatly folded and stacked, each item one above the other, with each item measuring exactly nine inches wide and one inch flat. Heard so much about HMS Ganges though and it sounded very good for developing 'real sailors ' but as much as I hate to admit it I suspect it would have been too much for me . CEM1 Served from 1972 - 1978 Served in HMS Ganges. 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