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MARINES ON THE GREEN
A opening display from the Sea Cadet band made up of members from Herne Bay & Dover played whilst PO Farrow marched the cadets though the crowds down the centre pathway to applauses & cheering before halting in front of the RMA, where the Royal Marines band watched from the second floor.
Bandmaster S/Lt Fenn, conducted the band to a fine display of mixed tunes to which Thunderbirds went down really well with the public.
Dover Armed Drill Squad performed a shortened version of their routine, this followed a march off down the Strand to finish the display. This was the first time a military band has marched that direction & route since the bomb.
Once the Royal Marines band had seated in the bandstand and the principle Director of Music ( Portsmouth ), this being his first concert at Deal mentioned how talented the Cadets were and we then got another round of applause, this is something that all cadets and staff can be really proud of.
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PRIORY FORUM - PENCESTER GARDENS
13 July, we had a stall with cakes made by Mrs Edwards, tombola & a treasure map to raise funds for the unit.
The day started very slow and quite.
Herne Bay Sea Cadet band & the Armed drill squad ut on a display, which went very well.
Thanks to PO Hackett in supplying all with bag meals and humour.
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Passing of Captain John Arthur
Captain John Arthur joined the sea cadets management committee of Training Ship Lynx, Dover in 1981. He was a enthusiastic & energetic member who inspired cadets and staff alike, always with great humour.
June 2005, Capt Arthur announced his retirement from the unit committee.
Capt Arthur completed thirty six & half years with Sealink UK ltd. The company showed their respect by making him the Commodore of the company’s fleet.
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Sub Lt Paul Dyer
Just to let you know that Paul Dyer is in Kent & Canterbury hospital after suffering a heart attack early hours of Tuesday morning ( 8 July ) and is expected to be in for at least 5 days.
Wishing you a speedy recovery & to get home quick.
From all at Dover unit
ps. Sorry about the photo Paul, not got many of you , ;-)
Paul came home on Saturday 12 July in good spirits for having to take it easy for a while ;-)
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Gravesham Maritime Festival
Sunday 6 July 2008
The Maritime Festival promises to be an exciting edition to this years events calender, many well known organisations will be taking part along with a wonderful arena presentation from the various units of the Kent Sea Cadets.
With lots of cadets from all over the Southern Area, thet gather to perform in front of the public many of the skills they learn in cadets, from a few hours to 3 x one weekend day to learn routines.
Drill display team ( East & West Kent ).
Southern Area Sea cadets Massed band.
Field Gun Team.
PT Display team.
A great day out
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Veterans Day and Kent TA100
Saturday 5th July 2008
The traditional 'end of day' ceremony with the Band of HM Royal Marines Portsmouth. It will be a fitting end to the daytime Veterans Day & Kent TA100 activities. Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports Admiral the Lord Boyce took the salute.
Armed drill squads from East & West Kent made up the guard
A great day out, if you have time.
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SABS WEEK
Well done to all the cadets that attended SABS WEEK for coming home with many Qualifications
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NEW SAILORS - QUAILIFIED
Well done to both groups who attended the Dover Watersports Center on Monday & Wednesday evening to complete on of the courses.
STAGE 1
OC Driver,CDT's Lorenz,Lydon,Prior,Hammond,Vaughan
Juniors
1st class Amber,Nye,
CDT's Reid,Geoghegan,Packman,Reid,Reidy,Roberts,Simmonds.
STAGE 2
OC Hollis,Ryan,
CDT's Lohan,Grey
Juniors
Leading Mitchell-Davis,Walsh.
CDT's Finnis,Richardson.
STAGE 3
AC Edwards,Selley M,Selley P,Tracey,Terry
OC Nye,Winstanley.
POWERBOAT LEVEL 2 - PLANNING & COASTAL
LDG CDT Dyer
TI Callaghan
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DISTRICT SPORTS DAY
Yet, another year gone by.
Sunday proved to be a lovely sunny day with an excellent turn out of cadets, entered in nearly all of the events on offer. A lot of new cadets to the unit this year, showed their hidden sporting talents. With lots of 1st, 2nd & 3rd placings won the unit points up and DOVER came 3RD overall.
A total of 25 certificates were recieved by cadets.
WELL DONE TO ALL.
ALSO - DOVER won the Tug of War, the first time in many years.
Also, the staff relay race entered 2 teams.
Male - PO Daz Farrow, PO Phil Hackett, Andy Nye & Dave Tracey.
Female - PO Sarah Butler, CI Sharon Morton, Wendy Driver & Julie Hackett.
Of course the CO did her closing of the games lap on her electric buggy
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TRI-ANGLE AWARDS
The unit was invited by Bill Butler, the Deal & Dover youth & Community officer at the Winter Gardens at Margate.
The Drill squad have during the past few weeks been learning a drill routine without words of command.This being a much skilled practice routine where timings of drill movements are performed to music.
Dover's Armed Drill & Continuity Drill squad perfromed in front of approx 750 people to the sound of ' Thunderbirds ' , it was amazing to hear the all the persons present start clapping within 15 seconds of the music playing.
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AREA DRILL COMPETITION 2008
This year’s Southern area drill competition took our unit two attempts as the original day was cancelled by a heavy fall of snow, making the surface unsafe for the guards to display their skills.
So, we were told that we were to attend the following weekend, with not much to arrange, a early start and we get to HMS Excellent in good time.
Once the dress inspection was marked and out of the way, we could get down to business and show off our routine in armed drill.
The routine went as smoothly as could be, the presentation took longer than expected with some extra time added to verify the judges mark.
This led to West Kent beating East Kent by just 0.8 of a mark. WE WILL WIN NEXT YEAR.
E-mail from the District Officer
Hi All
Please pass on my warmest congratulations and sincere thanks to everyone who contributed towards the superb results achieved at the Area Drill & Piping on Sunday. These are probably the best overall results that East Kent District have had in this competition for many years and are fully deserved by all, after the all round effort that has been put in by everyone concerned. Its a little unfortunate that the change of date forced the withdrawal of the Colour Party and Piping teams, as the results could have been even better.
Individual congratulations go to the three squad commanders, for one District to take all of these awards in one year like this must be a special achievement.
I would like to say a special thank you to the three instructors who have trained and prepared the squads so well, Al, Darren and Philip the effort you have all put in to achieve this has not gone un-noticed and is much appreciated by the whole District.
These are excellent results that you can all be proud of, you have represented your units and East Kent District to a very high standard and have been rewarded for your efforts.
BZ to all concerned
Kind Regards
Allan Robbins
District Officer East Kent
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JUNIORS & DOVER FIRE SERVICE
The Juniors have had an exciting and fun packed 2 weeks with the Dover Fire & Rescue service.
Week one comprised of a visit from a fire engine and whilst they clambered about the engine learning about the different bits of equipment carried, they also learnt fire safety, including :- persons on fire, fire alarms and how to raise an alarm on sighting a fire.
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Week 2, we visited the Dover Fire & Rescue station, as we settled down for a quick lesson, the alarms sounded for a fire call, which was quickily stopped due to a stand down.
We learnt about what a fire is and the FIRE TRIANGLE and colours of fire extinguishers, their contents and the types of fire they are used on. As we were clever in answering the questions, we were then led out into the training yard for some fun.
A fire engine had it's engine running and a couple of firemen had rigged up a road cone with a football on the top of it some 15 meters away from the engine. The object of our exercise was for each of us to use the hose and knock the football off in the shortest time.
Just at the end of our visit, the crew were called out to a report of some smoke in a nearby road. We got our photo taken with a fireman before saying thank you and we left.
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A SAD FAREWELL
The unit said a sad parting farewell to PO Jacqui Hopper, who has left the unit due to family commitments.
Miss Hopper has worked extremely hard this year getting every entry a well deserved pass in their piping exams & also the unit winning the district piping competition.
We wish her well & the very best of luck for the future.
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TS ROYALIST
Able Cadet TRACEY & Ordinary Cadet TERRY embark on a weeks voyage this Saturday (12/Apr)leaving from London and finishing at Ramsgate. We hope they have a pleasant trip and calm seas.
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AREA DRILL COMPETITION
After a long evening & weekends training the units armed guard travelled down to Portsmouth on Saturday ( 5/April ) ready for the competition on the Sunday.
Last minute training in the drill shed during the evening, then a early night.
Sunday, whilst the cadets were marching to breakfast, the heavens opened during LOTS of the white cold stuff. It was decided to cancel the competition as other units and some of the judges could not attend as some of the major roads were block getting into Portsmouth.
SO , It's round 2 and we are going back down this Sunday for another crack at it.
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PRESENTATION EVENING
District Officer Allan Robbins, Town Mayor , representatives from Dover Coastguard & Lifeboat and other VIP’s attended the annual presentation evening held at the Unit on 28th March 2008.
All watched the ceremony of evening colours including the armed guard, then the guests & parents were settled down and shown a slide show of the cadets working ( having fun ) in various activities undertaken during the past training year which was skilfully narrated by 4 cadets, this followed by the newly qualified Cook / stewards waiting on the VIP’s their selection and hand-made buffet delights on silver platters and refreshments and the Parents were served by other members of the Unit.
Then came trophy time presented to the cadets by the DO & Town Mayor.
Cadet of the Year.....................A/C Evenden
Best Division...........................Broke
Best dressed Male cadet..........Cdt Nye
Best dressed female cadet........Cdt Grey
Most Improved cadet................O/C Selley M
Most improved Boatwork...........O/C Terry
Wakefield Turner sailing............A/C Webster
General Boatwork.....................L/C Dyer
Seamanship.............................A/C Edwards
Cook Steward...........................A/C Selley P
Sportsperson of the Year............L/C Dyer
Best Junior Cadet......................L/J Mitchell-Davies
Most improved Junior..................L/J Geoghegan
Class 3 cook stewards badge.........A/C Selley P
2 good conduct stripes..................PO Grey.
Speech by the Deputy Mayor
“I would like to thank the sea cadets for all their help they have given the town of Dover at various functions.
Your presence and smartness is always welcome. we have been pleased to see you at the regatta and the mayor of Dover’s ball, so I will look forward to selecting my cadet, and I look back with fond memories on the support that I have received from my cadet on previous occasions when I was the mayor of Dover.
Your involvement on remembrance Sunday, they have always been special. Concerning remembrance Sunday, you will have noticed the work that the town council is doing, having purchased our war memorial. We are now looking after it, very well and working closely with the British Legion for the poppy collection.
I understand that your band is under development and once completed it will be lovely to see them performing at these events.
Being a cinque port town with a long sea faring tradition, it’s nice to have a navel connection via the sea cadets to remind people how big Dover is in the sea industry.
I would like to say a special thank you to your officers and helpers. Such volunteers are vital to enable you, the young people and our next generation to enjoy and benefit your excellent hobby.
Once again I would like to give my thanks to you do for this town and its people.
Thank you for inviting me. “
Mr Bill Butler, Deal & Dover Area Youth & Community Officer presented the Unit with a cheque of £ 400 to assist in financial support to send three cadets for a week onboard the TS Royalist.
Evening raffle raised £ 55
The evening closed with evening colours and a good evening was had by all.
And Finally, special thanks to Mrs Edwards and her merry gang for all their support in running the galley during the evening.
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AREA COMPETITION
The armed GUARD , have been working hard this past few weeks adding little perfections to the routine.
A busy weekend from the 4th / 5th April getting them prepared ready for the competition on the 6th at Portsmouth.
We wish them well & hoping that all the hard work pays off.
COME ON DOVER!
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TS LYNX & RM Band Portsmouth
The Central Theatre is a beautiful 960-seat venue in Chatham.
Chatham Marine Cadet Unit is proud to present The Band of HM Royal Marines (Portsmouth) with a selection of military, classical, Big Band and popular music.The concert is in support of the 1951 Cadet Memorial Fund,
which funds overseas exchange visits for cadets.
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Thanks go to PO Phil Hacket who took up 4 selected cadets to see the performance.
Cdts Love , Webster , Nye & Evenden.
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RIOT NIGHT
The juniors had a visit from Kent Police, and shown some of the equipment used by the modern day police.
Dressing up in the heavy clothing, swinging baton's around and bracing with the shield was all to exciting.
Ever since the visit, the stand easy queue is less frantic to get to them hot dogs.
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DISTRICT DRILL COMP WINNERS
On a very cold day , It was well worth it to get FIRST place in the ARMED DRILL DISPLAY & PIPING.
3rd place for the colour party display.
M Selley runner up for best dressed cadet.
DRILL COMP WINNERS
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