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Unit Staff
Lt(SCC) J Allam, RNR - Officer in Charge
PO(SCC) A Paul - First Lieutenant
Sgt (SCC) P Chapman - Training Officer
PO(SCC) C Ditton - OiC Junior Section
CPO (SCC) K Farnes - Boats Officer
Lt(SCC) K Milligan RNR - Acting Logistics Officer
UA A Potter - Admin Officer
Staff
Maj(SCC) M Weobley RMR
Lt(SCC) J Stoner RNR
PO(SCC) C Fairall
PPO(SCC) J Allam
Unit President - Commander Jonatham Powis RN
Mr Richard H Walter - Unit Chairman Mr Jeremy Flaskett - Vice Chairman
Mr John Le Rossignol - Secretary Mr Peter Eyre - Treasurer
Ms Joanna Cole - P&SA
Reverend W E L Souter - Unit Chaplain
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Join - cadets
As a Sea Cadet you will test your talents and stamina and develop new skills to give you a head start in life. You will also get the chance to make new friends and have fun.
You can join us as a cadet if you are 10—18.
Junior Cadets 10—12
Learn about First Aid, semaphore, the environment and build models. Junior Cadets also take part in the usual water activities like sailing, canoeing and sports.
Sea Cadets 12—18
Get to grips with subjects both on water and land as part of basic training, like Parade training, Ship's routine, seamanship and boat work, physical training and First Aid. Courses are available in anything from rock climbing and shooting, through communications and engineering, to music and catering.
Royal Marines Cadets 13—18
Learn fieldcraft skills of camouflage and concealment. Royal Marines Cadets Detachments are highly disciplined so that each "troop" can depend 100% on their team mates. As part of a Sea Cadet Unit you will enjoy all the water-borne activities too.
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Volunteer Positions
There are two types of opportunity for volunteers: uniformed and non-uniformed.
Uniformed instructors serve a probationary period of nine months. Applicants with previous experience in the armed forces or Merchant Navy can apply for direct entry. Many uniformed instructors are ex-cadets, passing on the skills they learned during their time in the ranks. The financial support that we receive from the Royal Navy enables us to offer our uniformed volunteers a number of days' training pay each year.
Non-uniformed volunteers can apply to join Sea Cadets at any age. Many are introduced to the charity when a son or daughter expresses an interest in joining. Quite often, both parent and child will join a Unit, and husband and wife teams are common.
Here is a brief insight into some of the roles available:
Uniformed Instructor
Teach cadets a wide variety of skills and qualifications. Eligible for promotion through the rank structure.
Earn useful skills and qualifications.
Non Uniformed Instructor
Train cadets in a wide variety of skills and qualifications. Earn useful skills and qualification.
Unit Assistant
Carry out a wide variety of tasks to help their local Sea Cadet Unit, for example: mini-bus driver, painter and decorator.
Unit Management Team (UMC)
Each Sea Cadet Unit is an independent charity and members of the UMC are the trustees of the Unit charity.
All volunteers, irrespective of their role undergo a criminal records disclosure check (CRB) when they join the charity.
As a Sea Cadet volunteer you will
—Support young people, enabling them to develop practical life skills
—Get a sense of personal achievement from involvement with a local youth charity
—Invest in the local community as part of a widely respected charity
—Meet new people, make new friends
—Gain relevant and interesting experience which could help you in both your personal life and your career
—Become part of a team which encourages young people between 12 and 18 to participate in structured activity, become part of their community and do new and challenging things
—Give your time and commitment consistent with other demands on your life
—Gain additional skills or a qualification fully supported via our accredited education facility
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HMS CHIDDINGFOLD - Unit Affiliated Ship
The 'Cheery Chid' as she is known throughout the small ship fleet was built by Vosper Thornycroft and was launched by the Ship's Sponsor Lady Anne Kennon in October 1983, formally entering service with the Royal Navy in October 1984.
HMS Chiddingfold's role within the RN
Over a quarter of a million Sea Mines have yet to be accounted for from the Second World War alone. Today mines remain a cheap and plentiful means of denying the use of the Sea; they can be tethered to the seabed or be laid upon it; they can be activate by impact or a variety of other influences. In short, mines continue to present a very real threat to all who use the sea.
The United Kingdom relies on shipments of cargo, food and other resources via the sea. HMS Chiddingfold's primary role as a mine hunter is to keep our sea-lanes open not only for military vessels but also civil vessels. This is accomplished in peacetime by surveying the various sea-lanes and harbours and plotting a detailed map of the seabed, so if the worst should happen we could quickly check that nothing new has appeared within these lanes, and thus quickly allow normal operations to resume. During times of war or conflict we are called on to clear channels for our larger sister units but also allow humanitarian aid into harbours that have been mined.
The process of clearing areas that have been mined is quite a slow process, but with the highly trained team of specialists onboard, areas are cleared as quickly and efficiently as possible. We are able to enter mined areas due to the construction of the ship and also the equipment fitted. The ship is constructed from Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP), with fixtures and fitting made from non-ferrous materials, this keeps our magnetic signature to the bare minimum. Other equipment onboard that produces magnetic fields have degaussing to lower or remove their magnetic field.
Chiddingfold can hunt for mines using its sonar and computer system, if mine like contacts are found then a remote controlled submersible vehicle, called Seafox, is deployed to enable us to view what the contact is. If the contact is a mine an explosive version of Seafox can be used to detonate remotely of the mine. If the mine is required for research then the diving team onboard can be sent away to disarm the mine and recover it onboard.
The other role HMS Chiddingfold can play during peacetime is as a member of the fishery protection squadron. During the time on Fishery protection duties the ship patrols areas around the UK and the Ship's company board vessels fishing within UK waters. During the boarding operation the vessels logs are checked along with its net size and size of fish held within the hold. This ensures that our fish stocks are not depleted due to undersize fish being caught, it also ensures that the vessel and crew are legally allowed to fish within UK waters.
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HMS CHIDDINGFOLD
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Commanding Officer HMS CHIDDINGFOLD
Lieutenant Commander Adam Northover BSc(Hons) Royal Navy
Adam Northover, though originally from Cambridgeshire, grew up by the sea from a young age in Cornwall and joined the Royal Navy as a Seaman Officer in 1995 after successfully completing a BSc (Hons) degree in Geography at the University of Hull.
Training appointments included being part of NATO task group in the Mediterranean and a period in the Far East in the Hong Kong Squadron serving in the Patrol Craft HMS Peacock. A first complement appointment as an Officer of the Watch in the Frigate HMS Iron Duke took him back to the Mediterranean supporting NATO operations off Kosovo as well as exercises in the West Indies.
Navigation training followed, and he was appointed to the Falkland Islands Patrol Vessel, HMS Dumbarton Castle as Navigating Officer. He joined the Type 42 Destroyer HMS Nottingham as Navigator in 2000. Operations included multinational exercises off the coasts of Scotland and Oman, as well as anti-piracy operations off the Somali coast and Horn of Africa, culminating in a busy deployment to the Far East in support of the Five Powers Defence Agreement.
A shore post followed as Navigation instructor to junior seaman officers where he helped restructure the training syllabus for students as well as assisting in the design of the training required for the introduction of electronic charting systems into the RN.
In 2003 he attended the Initial Staff Course at Joint Services Command and Staff College Shrivenham, before embarking on Warfare Training at training establishments HMS Dryad and HMS Collingwood. He qualified as a Principal Warfare Officer (Underwater) in October 2004 which led to an appointment in the Type 42 Destroyer HMS York where he was involved in further anti-piracy operations off the Horn of Africa and a second deployment to the Far East to conduct multinational exercises.
Selected for Specialist Navigation training in Jan 2006, where he gained a Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Navigation, he joined Flag Officer Sea Training (FOST) in Devonport as a Navigation Staff Officer. A two year appointment as Senior Navigator and Operations Officer of the Royal Navy’s Ice Patrol Ship, HMS Endurance followed, which took him to the final two continents he had not yet visited, South America and Antarctica. This appointment, by far the most diverse he had yet encountered in the RN, included six operating periods in Antarctica, and two in West Africa.
Selected for Command in November 2008, he took Command of MCM 2 Crew 2 in July 2009 embarked in HMS Brocklesby. A busy period bringing the ship back from extended maintenance to the Front Line followed, the programme containing diverse activities from Diving to Mine Counter Measures Training Operations and Exercise Joint Warrior, the UK led multi-national exercise off the Scottish coast.
Lt Cdr Northover proudly assumed Command of HMS Chiddingfold in July 2010 and is very much looking forward to the diverse challenges that this Command will present.
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HMS GLORY
COLOSSUS Class Light Fleet Aircraft Carrier ordered on 14th March 1942 from Harland and Wolff at Belfast and laid down on 28th August that year. The ship was launched on 27th November 1943 as the13th RN ship to carry the name, introduced in 1747 for a French Prize (GLOIRE) and last used for the Russian cruiser ASKOLD seized in 1918 and returned in 1920.Build was completed on 27 November 1944. The record of 'adoptions' held in the Naval Historical Branch, Ministry of Defence shows the ship to have been associated with the Employees War Appeals Fund, but no other details of date are given.
B a t t l e H o n o u r s
GLORIOUS FIRST OF JUNE 1794 - CALDER'S ACTION 1805 - GUADELOUPE 1810 - MARTINIQUE 1809 - CHINA 1900 - DARDANELLES 1915 - KOREA 1950-53*
(*Awarded for service with UN).
H e r a l d i c D a t a
Badge : On a Field Blue, a demi-lion erased Gold
holding between the paws a sun in splendour
also gold.
M o t t o
Per concordiam Glory : 'Glory through unity'.
D e t a i l s o f W a r Service
1 9 4 4
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Previous HMS CHIDDINGFOLD
HMS Chiddingfold (L 31)
Escort destroyer of the Hunt (Type II) class
Navy The Royal Navy
Type Escort destroyer
Class Hunt (Type II)
Pennant L 31
Built by Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. (Greenock, Scotland)
Ordered
Laid down 1 Mar 1940
Launched 10 Mar 1941
Commissioned 16 Oct 1941
End service
Loss position
History Lent to the Royal Indian Navy 18 June 1954 and renamed Ganga.
Sold to the royal Indian Navy in April 1959.
Scrapped in 1975.
Commands listed for HMS Chiddingfold (L 31)
Please note that we're still working on this section.
Commander From To
1 Lt. Lionel William Lendon Argles, RN
12 Aug 1941 Apr 1943
2 Lt. Thomas Mervyn Dorrien-Smith, RN
Apr 1943 31 Aug 1944
3 Lt. Frederick Greville Woods, DSC, RN
31 Aug 1944 Oct 1945 ?
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