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Meet the Unit Staff
Commanding Officer CPO (SCC) Mike Jackson
Joined the SCC In 1984 as a Civilian Instructor at T.S Talisman Altrincham. He became a PO some 4 years later after gaining instructor qualifications in Seamanship, Engineering and Instructional Method's.
He then went on to join Stretford and Urmston Sea Cadet's in 1992 after progressing to CPO and became 1st Lieutenant shortly afterwards.
He successfully took over the helm in 2003 becoming Officer In Charge officially in April the same year. Confirmed as Commanding Officer November 2007.
Qualifications Held
Seamanship Assessor.
Advanced Marine Engineering Instructor
RYA Advanced Power Boat Instructor
Pulling Coach
Chartwork Examiner
1st Lt CPO(SCC)Stuart Jackson
PO Bekki Hollingsworth
PO Natalie Hoather
Chaplain - Philip Brown
PO Graham Hope
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History of the Unit
The Stretford & Urmston Sea Cadets were formed in July 1942, under the name of TS Winston Churchill. At that time the unit was located on Cromwell Road which is around three quarters of a mile away from our present location of Bradshaw Lane.
The move to Bradshaw Lane happened around 1960.
In the 65 years that the unit has been in existence the unit has seen many changes of name. The unit took the name of TS De Trafford after the move to Bradshaw Lane. The De Trafford Family were major land owners around the Stretford & Urmston area of Manchester. The family seat was at Longford Park, some 5 minutes from the present unit location.
The next change of name came after a debate between the Units Chairperson Mr Iain Currie, the units CO and staff. It was decided that we should approach the MOD (Ministry of Defence) and ask if we could take the name of a serving ship; at the time the unit chairman working on a project which involved the Royal Navy’s 4th Trident class submarines HMS Vengeance. After many letters were written we were finally allowed to use the Name TS Vengeance from 1998, with an affiliation to HMS Vengeance and the HMS Vengeance association.
Staff and cadets attended the “rolling out” ceremony and the Submarines commissioning at Barrow in Furness, the unit received the commissioning ribbons from the Submarine shortly after the event. The OIC -CPO (SCC) Mike Jackson has been invited and attended the reunion dinners both on the Sub with the officers and crew and with the Vengeance association at their annual reunion. The unit’s staff and cadets have had a visit to the Submarine at Faslane spending a weekend as guests of the crew.
In 2000 the unit received a National Lottery Grant which allowed the unit to acquire a fully fitted out accommodation building which has been a massive benefit to the unit, district and area as a whole as we have been able to provide facilities for cadets attending courses at the unit. We also had a new security fence and tarmac laid to allow the unit to have its own off road parking area
In 2006 we received a grant from the community foundation for the refurbishment of the unit’s galley, this has been another great success allowing the unit to hold cook/steward courses and enabling us to feed cadets and staff attending courses.
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