Hms King Alfred

Thank you for all the interest in our post on the Commonwealth and Royal Naval Reserve personnel who served at the St Nazaire raid.
We’ve a particular connection with all in the Royal Australian Navy Volunteer Reserve, who in #WWII did the second stage of their training at HMS King Alfred.
Amongst them were Lt N. B. H. Wallis, RANVR, (Motor Launch 192) and Lt W Wallach RANVR (Motor Launch 270), both were awarded the DSC for their actions during the raid and S/LT P. W. Landy,... RANVR, (Motor Launch 306).
For more information on the RANVR and the Australian connection with HMS King Alfred, the Naval Historical Society of Australia has a number of good articles on their website.
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It’s not long until the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
This week in preparation, all 122 panels and every name upon them at the imposing Naval War Memorial on Portsmouth seafront were being painstakingly cleaned and restored.
For the full story: http://ow.ly/mNxO50p41Fb
... Many of those of who served at D-Day (especially on the landing craft) were Royal Naval Reserve trained at HMS King Alfred and with that connection we’re looking forward to the anniversary.
#LestWeForget #WWII
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Tonight's been a very special night for the unit! Not only have we had a visit from CMR and SO1 RNR (head of the Reserves and his staff), some of our Ship's Company received very prestigious awards 👏
One of our Permanent Staff was awarded a Commander Maritime Reserves Commendation for his selfless efforts in saving the life of a member of the Ship's Company last year.
And Cdre Quinn presented CPO Turley with his Certificate of Valediction, celebrating for his outstanding 35 years of service. You'll be missed!

We like a quick look at Royal Naval Reserve #history and today is the anniversary of the birth of Lt Alec Guinness, RNVR.
Commander of Landing Craft LCI (L) 124, he fought at the Sicily & Anzio landings and ran covert operations supplying the resistance fighting the Germans in Yugoslavia.
He is perhaps better known for his post-war career – Actor, Oscar winner, star of Bridge on the River Kwai and Obi-Wan Kennobi in #StarWars!

Hope everyone has had a great #MotheringSunday!
Best wishes to all mothers associated with the Royal Navy and Royal Naval Reserve family whether serving, partners, or parents.

We've had an excellent time showing our visitors around and letting them have a go at some Seamanship skills. We hope you all have had as much fun as we have during today's Royal Naval Reserve Experience Day!
Don't do the everyday, every day: bit.ly/2uBWEJq

What a fantastic day to hold a Royal Naval Reserve Experience Day! ☀️ We're now prepped and ready to welcome curious civvies to our unit.
See for yourself what life is like in the RNR: bit.ly/2uBWEJq

75 years ago today, on 28 March 1942, the #GreatestRaid of #WWII, #OperationChariot was drawing to a close.
The dry dock at Saint-Nazaire, Pays De La Loire, France had been successfully attacked by a Combined Operations Raid. The damage ensured that it could not be used by the German Navy for the rest of the war as a base from which their surface ships could attack allied convoys. At 02:30, after ferocious fighting, the allied forces withdrew with the mission accomplished.
...This one action resulted in the award of 5 VC; 4 DSO; 17 DSC; 11 MC; 4 CGM; 5 DCM; 24 DSM and 15 MM. Another 51 men were mentioned in dispatches, 22 of them posthumously.
Fighting alongside the Royal Navy & Royal Marines on the operation were sailors from the Royal Naval Reserve, Royal Canadian Navy (Regular and Reserve) & the Royal Australian Navy.
We will remember them.
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Last night was a great chance for sailors from HMS King Alfred to train with HMS Mersey, one of the Royal Navy's very busy Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPV).
We also took the opportunity to show the South East RFCA team some of what we do in the Royal Naval Reserve and some the fantastic sea-going opportunities available.
Brilliant also to catch up with some of the #Reservists working full time on the ship, including our friends from HMS CALLIOPE. A number of HMS King Alfred's ...sailors have worked as part of the team on HMS Mersey and it's been hugely beneficial.
Thank you to all of the team onboard & we look forward to supporting you!
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It wasn’t just our MediaTeam training at the weekend, HMS King Alfred's Medical Branch ran a Team Building & Education Day at The Gordon Museum of Pathology, King's College London.
They didn’t plan to be colour co-ordinated 🤔 but it seems even the table joined in 😁
There’s a wide range of interesting and challenging medical roles in the Royal Naval Reserve and details are at: https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/…/royal-na va…/what-could-you-do

Having a good weekend?
For HMS King Alfred's media team, we’ve had a great weekend! We've been training in #Portsmouth with the other Royal Naval Reserve unit media teams & catching up with some of our reservist sailors working full time in the Royal Navy.
Thank you to HMS Tyne, Alex & Sam from the Royal Navy Media team, the RN photo team, & the Royal Naval Reserve Media Ops branch for organising the training!
... If you'd be interested in working with the Media in your spare time as part of the Royal Naval Reserve, you can find out more at: https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/…/royal-na va…/what-could-you-do
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Great to see the latest episode of Two Six TV!
All the latest news from the Royal Navy, Royal Marines & Royal Naval Reserve packed into 60 seconds!
HMS Duncan sets sail on a six-month deployment, HMS Argyll rescues 27 from a burning ship on her way home after nine months away and HMS Medway is handed over to the Royal Navy.
... Here is your jam-packed 60-second update from across the Naval Service. ⚓️🏠
🔗 http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/60SecondNews 🔗 http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/TwoSix
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Congratulations to everyone awarded their Initial #Minewarfare Course certificate this weekend!
Well done to Royal Naval Reserve personnel from HMS King Alfred, HMS CALLIOPE, HMS Wildfire, HMS Vivid & HMS Flying Fox for achieving this professional milestone.
Welcome to a #Reserve career in a great branch and to supporting #RoyalNavy mine clearance operations!

Good evening & hope everyone’s had a great #weekend!
Just a reminder that drill night this week is Divisional Meetings, so well worth attending for getting the latest Royal Naval Reserve & branch information and for seeing your Divisional Management team.

Good luck to everyone in this afternoon's Guinness Six Nations Rugby!
There’s lots of opportunity to play across the Naval Service whether Royal Navy, Royal Naval Reserve or Royal Marines.
If you'd like to support, on 20th March the Royal Navy Men’s & Women’s teams host the French Navy (La Marine Nationale ), more details on Facebook at Royal Navy Rugby Union or the web at: https://www.navyrugbyunion.co.uk/
... #ENGvSCO #WALvIRE #NavyFit
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Good morning! A quick notice to the ship’s company.
As you’ll have seen, the annual Reserves Continuous Attitude Survey is closing soon and your views on #Reserves are wanted.
The Royal Naval Reserve & Royal Marines Reserve survey link for serving personnel is at: http://ow.ly/yjRh30ndNHe and if you haven’t already done so please do complete it!

Congratulations! HMS King Alfred held a Captain's table this evening.
Well done to our new Lieutenant and AB1, promoted from Sub Lieutenant and AB2 respectively. Well done also to our AB who earned her first Good Conduct Badge for four years of service.

How’s your weekend? For HMS Montrose, it’s going to be very busy!
Between exercises, the ship is alongside in #Tokyo (#東京) at Harumi Wharf ( #晴海埠頭 ) and is open to visitors this weekend as the latest Royal Navy ship to be working with the Japan Maritime Self Defence Force (防衛省 海上自衛隊).
Full story at: https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/…/190308-h ms-montrose-visits-t…

For our final #InternationalWomansDay post, we’d like to celebrate women in today's Naval Service, now that every role in the Royal Navy, Royal Naval Reserve, Royal Marines and Royal Fleet Auxiliary is open to all.
Hope you've had a great day!
#IWD2019