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News and Events
See the Calendar of current events, and below some of the activities we have been up to.
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Cadet 150
Leading Cadet Walling and PO Fry took part in the Cadet 150 parade in London.
The Naval Cadet Forces formed at HMS Excellent Naval Training Base in Portsmouth.
Cadets and Junior Rates messed on HMS Bristol Training Ship.
Practice comprised two days of drill and parade training with Sea Cadets and CCF (RN) from across the country and Ireland.
Bands from the Sea Cadets and Combined Cadet Forces (RN) prepared on HMS Excellent drill square. The Band commander commented that the bands were some of the best he had ever experienced.
In London 6 July the parade formed on Horse Guards Parade, meeting with the Army and Air Force Cadte forces.
Cadets, Bands and Staff marched up the mall, giving Eyes Right to Prince Charles.
The parade reformed in Wellington Barracks before entry into Bucking PalaceGardens for presentation to the Prince.
Thank you for a most enjoyable and fullingfulling experience, both in London and at HMS Excellent.
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Ware Carnival 2010
Hertford and Ware SCC took part in Ware Carnival, 3 July 2010, with the unit Viking in the Boat Parade and some fancy farmyard festivities.
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District Seamanship Winners
Team lead by LC Walling J, with LC Witty A, LC Witty J and OC Corlett T won the competition in March 2010.
The team demonstrated 12 knots, throwing a heaving line, creating a three-legged tripod called a Gyn, a general knowledge test, splicing and whipping, and a two-fold purchase.
The competition was held at Hitchin unit.
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Mr Brooks' Dining Out
Mr Brooks' Dining Out retirement dinner was held at the T.S. Dreadnought HQ on Saturday 27 March 2010.
The meal was attended by several Cadets in No. 1 Dress uniform, together with staff and members of the committee.
Thanks to the Panting family for their super efforts catering.
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New Junior Cadets, Fridays.
In February the unit was given permission for Junior Cadets aged 10 to 12 to attend.
Running closely with the older Sea Cadets, there will be many opportunity to have fun together.
The Junior Cadets will meet Friday evenings and will include Sailing with the rest of the unit each week during the Summer.
The Junior Section will be lead by CI Eleanor Bourne.
Junior Cadets
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Two Leading Cadets
The brothers Witty, A and Witty J from Hertford both attained their Leading Cadet Rates following their Advancement Board Assessments.
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Lord Mayor's Cadet
Leading Cadet Jack Walling was recently awarded the honour of Lord Mayor's Cadet for Hertford for his commitment and diligence, maturity.
Leading Cadet Walling J was named Lord Mayor's Cadet by Hertford Mayor Cllr Poole. The Mayor said that Jack Walling has been chosen to represent the Cadet forces due to his commitment and achievement within the Sea Cadets. Jack Walling is also a valued assistant at ESSA Sailing base, where he is qualified to sail and support Safety Boat crews. The Sea Cadets use ESSA sailing base regularly during the summer.
LC Walling has been a member of the unit for several years.
He is shown with his winning certificate as Team Leader of the District Expedition Training competition in 2009.
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District Piping Competition
This year the District Piping competition was held at the Hertford and Ware unit, and was won by the team from T. S. Andromeda. The Cadets demonstrated the smart uniforms, marks of respect and diligence to practice that is required to pipe the various calls used to communicate within the Ship's Company.
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New national website
As many of you will be aware, SCC Headquarters have been undertaking a major revamp of the national web presence. The new site has finally gone live today.
Headquarters Statement Reads
As The Marine Society & Sea Cadets is now almost 2½ years old, we felt that it was high time we brought our various ‘shop window’ websites (www.ms-sc.org, www.marine-society.org and www.sea-cadets.org) together into one large website at www.ms-sc.org. The four main areas of activity have differently colour-coded page headers and we have set up re-directs from the old websites. As well as strengthening our brand, this should ensure that everyone associated with the organisation is made fully aware of the breadth of our activities and the services available.
I hope you enjoy looking at the new site. There will inevitably be some teething problems, but please bear with us.
Change to Unit website URLs
This also means that your own URL is changing. From now on it will be:
http://units.ms-sc.org/hertfordware
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Unit Event Calendar
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