At today’s AGM, Lt Cdr Toni Cioma was confirmed as President for 2023 with Cdr Cedric Loughran as Vice President.

The President thanked the outgoing President Lt Cdr Frank Hogan for his sterling work during a trying time!

Papers for the AGM are now in the Members Area

It is with great sadness that we have to announce that Lt Cdr Steve Bleasdale RNR, our President in 2011, crossed the Bar on 25 January after a long illness. Our thoughts are with his wife Jo and family at this time.

The January 2023 Newsletter is now in the Members’ area.

An invitation was received to attend the unveiling of a memorial to HMS VIMIERA at Sandbach Town Hall.

The ship was adopted by Sandbach and was unfortunately sunk with the loss of many lives. See the V and W Association full report:

Warships Week in Sandbach, Cheshire (vandwdestroyerassociation.org.uk)

From L to R Lt Cdr John Glover, Cdr Tom Cunningham and Lt Nic Fellowes attended the event on 8 January 2023.

We very much regret to announce that Lt Cdr Thomas Conway, a long-standing member has crossed the bar.

Tom had the privilege of being the Commanding Officer of three ships during his time with Mersey Division: HM Ships ISIS, MERSEY and BRERETON.

Our thoughts are with his family at this time.

We very much regret to announce that Captain John Cosker MN, a long-standing member and our first non-service President in 2000 has crossed the bar.

Our thoughts are with his family at this time.

It is with great sorrow that I (John Glover) have to report the sudden passing of Dan.

Members will not know Dan, but they will be aware of his work for the Club. Dan was the Head of Design at the Neuro Muscular Centre (NMC) and I have worked with him for many years, designing Christleton High School’s award-winning magazine and latterly with the Club.

Dan was responsible for the Design of “Hold Fast”, having the ability to transform my basic ideas and turn them into reality into the brilliant book. He also worked on all the Centenary projects last year and his final job for us was to design the cover for “From Cape Horn to Simla”.

THE JOURNALS OF CAPTAIN HENRY JOHNSTONE TEMPERLEY GREY RD RNR

Henry Temperley Grey was born in Weston-Super-Mare on 20th February 1875, the son of a Congregational Minister. He went to sea at the age of 15 and as you will read, had a wonderful career all over the world and of course, was one of the founders and President of the Royal Naval Reserve Officers’ Club, Liverpool in 1925.
His Grandson, Chris Tilley, kindly lent John Glover the original journals and also the typed carbon copy, so that he might transcribe them and add reader’s notes and photos/scans to enhance the book. He has tried to incorporate as many of Captain Temperley Grey’s original photos as possible.
With grateful thanks to Chris for not only the opportunity to edit these journals but to be privy to his personal papers and enjoy a fantastic read! He wrote his story in the mid-1940s and apart from having his notes over the years, he has added descriptions of the places visited and also historical information about them – all in the days before search engines! He had a wonderful way of telling us about the people, places, fauna and flora.
The language is of the time and readers should be aware of this as nothing has been changed in order to preserve authenticity.

The book is now on our website. Go to the Centenary Book Tab and scroll down to the bottom and then click on the image of the book cover to open and read it.