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TS SWIFTSURE - UNIT HQ.
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Unit Staff
S/Lt (SCC) L Greenaway RNR - Commanding Officer
CPO(SCC) S Collier - 1st Lt
CPO(SCC) S Cheek
CI B Crewdson - OiC Juniors
TI S Frampton
Unit President
Commander Ken Enticknap QGM Royal Navy
Unit Management Comittee
Mrs Gail Quinn - Unit Chairperson
Mrs Sheila Salter
Mr Brian Cheek
Mrs Sylvia Milligan
Mrs Rita Jelly
Mr George Nevin
Mr David Tasker
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Cadets
Boys and girls join a local Unit for the duration of their career with the Sea Cadets. Here they can interact with their peers and develop their confidence and self-esteem. Whether it’s team-building, adventure training, Unit-based sports and activities or sea-based endeavour on board one of the Sea Cadets’ training ships, the Sea Cadets is geared towards developing individuals’ skills and personalities, with the ethos of teamwork an important factor throughout. As well as making friends with other cadets, each young person will gain valuable communication and interaction skills that will benefit them in later life.
Sports are a very big part of life in the Sea Cadets. There are competitions in every Area in all kinds of sports, including sailing, rowing, canoeing, swimming and 5-a-side football, to name but a few. Sports competitions are a fantastic way of meeting Cadets from every corner of the country.
At our national camps and courses, Cadets from all over the country come together to learn subjects and get involved in activities that can’t be covered at their local Unit. Many of our national events take place on naval bases, where Cadets experience all sorts of activities they never thought possible, from trying the confidence course to working in a naval galley. On our expeditions Cadets might find themselves living in a tent and making breakfast on a tiny stove, while hiking through some wonderful scenery, with only a map and compass for navigation. There are so many different activities available; everyone will find something they can’t wait to try.
Although much of the Sea Cadets’ activity is conducted within individual units, there are also plenty of opportunities for Cadets to travel. From Hong Kong to Belgium to South Africa, Cadets have taken part in exchanges all over the world, through the International Sea Cadet Association.
FARNHAM SEA CADETS 01252 324001
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HMS SWIFTSURE
There has been an HMS SWIFTSURE in the Royal Navy since 1573, including.
1787 - the ship was captured in 1801 by the French but then recaptured at the battle of Trafalgar.
1804 - This was a 74 gun 3rd rate which served at the battle of trafalgar (so there were 2 swiftsures there.
1870 - Swiftsure Class Central Battery Ironclad
1903 - Swiftsure Class Battleship
1943 - Minotaur Class Light Cruiser
1971 - Swiftsure Class Nuclear Attack Submarine
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HMS SWIFTSURE 1971-1992
Swiftsure Class Submarines.
These submarines were launched during the 1970's and the class consists of HMS Swiftsure, HMS Sovereign, HMS Superb, HMS Sceptre, HMS Spartan and HMS Splendid.
The Swiftsure nuclear attack submarines were designed to dive deeper than previous classes. All six submarines of the class were built by VSEL, at barrow with the first HMS Swiftsure being launched on the 7th September 1971
HMS Swiftsure
LAUNCHED: 7TH SEPTEMBER 1971
COMMISIONED :17TH APRIL 1973
DECOMMISIONED: 1992
DISPLACEMENT: 4,900 TONNES (DIVED)
LENGTH :82.9m
BEAM: 9.8m
DRAUGHT: 8.5m
SPEED: 20 KNOTS+ WHEN DIVED POWERED BY NUCLEAR REACTOR
CREW: 116 OFFICERS AND MEN
ARMAMENTS:SPEARFISH TORPEDOES & RN SUB HARPOON MISSILES
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AFFILIATED SHIP - HMS PORTLAND
HMS Portland was launched at the shipyard of the then Marconi Marine at Scotstown on the Clyde on 15 May 1999 by Lady Heather Brigstocke.
The Ship was accepted into service by the Royal Navy on 15 December 2000 and was commissioned on 3 May the following year. The penultimate in a class of fifteen ships, she achieved a top speed of 30.8 knots during contractor's sea trials in the Summer of 2000 and claims this as a record across the entire class. During the Ship's first visit to the Island of Portland in June 2001, the Earl of Portland gave his blessing to the Ship adopting his family motto "Craignez Honte", which translates as "Fear Dishonour". The family crest is also depicted on the flag HMS Portland flies whilst carrying out replenishment at sea operations.
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Commanding Officer - HMS PORTLAND
Commander T M Henry Royal Navy
Timothy Henry was born in 1970 and educated at the French Lycée in London before joining the Royal Navy in 1989. Completing his Fleet training in HM Ships Birmingham and Hurworth, the latter during the early stages of Operation Granby in the Arabian Gulf, his first complement appointment was as the Gunnery and Mine Warfare Officer of HMS Sheraton.
In 1993 he undertook an 18 month exchange appointment with the Belgian Navy, navigating the frigate BNS Wandelaar, including time as part of NATO’s Operation Sharp Guard off the coast of the Former Yugoslavia, before returning to the UK in 1994 as the Navigating Officer of HMS Argyll. In 1996 Tim Henry assumed command of HMS Trumpeter, one of the Gibraltar Squadron patrol boats, returning to the UK to undertake Principal Warfare Officer (PWO) training before joining HMS Westminster in late 1999 as the PWO (Underwater) and Operations Officer.
After a rewarding two years at sea, he joined the Permanent Joint Headquarters as a staff officer in the Operations Division the week after the attacks on the US in September 2001 and spent the following two years at the heart of the UK’s military operational headquarters which included time in Kosovo, Macedonia and Iraq. In late 2003, he returned to Iraq as the Officer Commanding the Royal Navy Training Team, a mixed Royal Navy and Royal Marines detachment providing support and training to the fledgling Iraqi Border Security organisation.
Returning to the UK and HMS Westminster as the Executive Officer in the summer of 2004, Commander Henry was promoted in 2005 and attended the Advanced Command and Staff Course in September of that year. After a year of staff training, he was awarded a Masters Degree in Defence Studies from King’s College London before moving a short distance within the Shrivenham campus and becoming the Military Assistant and Personal Staff Officer to the Director of the Defence Academy. He assumed command of HMS Portland in August 2008.
Tim lives with his family near London. When they are not valiantly trying to keep their 300 year old house standing, they enjoy sailing, skiing and the contents of the sadly not nearly as old wine cellar.
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