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	HMS Ganges Association History Royal Navy
		HMS Ganges sailed to Devonport for keel to be scraped.
		Photograph believed to be of HMS Ganges II (Known by the boys as the "Twicer").
		The photograph was taken by Brian Samuels the HMS Ganges Association, Queensland Representative.
	www.hmsgangesassoc.org /frigate.html (1400 words)

	HMS Ganges Museum History Page
		The name HMS Ganges came into service in 1779 when 3 vessels were presented to the navy by the Honourable East India company.
		After various commissions HMS Ganges was commissioned as the flag-ship of Rear Admiral R L Bayes on the Pacific Station and left for the Pacific in September 1857.
		HMS Ganges remained in Harwich harbour as a boys' training ship and in 1905 the boys moved ashore for their training, which continued at Shotley until 1976.
	www.hmsgangesmuseum.org.uk /history.htm (317 words)

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		H.M.S. Ganges, the ship, which had sailed around the coast from the harbour of Falmouth where it had been for many years, was anchored in Harwich Harbour from 1895 to 1905.
		In that latter year the boys came ashore to establish H.M.S. Ganges the 'concrete frigate,' and the teak-built training-ship, the last wooden-hulled vessel to carry an Admiral to act as Flagship, was taken to Chatham, renamed and used as a tender to R.N. Barracks.
		Ganges, or what remains of it, is now a Police Training College; it may be gone from sight but not from the memory of hundreds of thousands of boys and men who spent several months training as Boys, or Instructors or as members of the staff.
	www.rjerrard.co.uk /royalnavy/rnbooks/gangest.htm (3530 words)

	Ganges on Salt Spring Island BC
		The first HMS Ganges was built in England and launched in 1782, and finally broken up in 1816.
		The HMS Ganges was in the Pacific region from 1857 to 1861.
		The Ganges Museum is located in the Bittancourt House on the grounds of the Farmers' Institute at 351 Rainbow Road.
	www.saltspringisland.org /ganges/ganges.htm (655 words)

	HMS Firedrake Page 8
		Earlier that year Dennis was on board HMS Cornwall when it was bombed and sunk on April 5th 1942, he was rescued after 36 hours in the sea (see attached telegram reporting him missing and the cable from Dennis saying he was OK after his rescue).
		So I was drafted to HMS Harrier (Fleet Mine sweeper) her duties were mine sweeping on Russian Convoys to Murmansk and Archangel and sweeping invasion troops ashore on D-day after the invasion we were kept busy clearing mines from around channel ports.
		I then joined HMS Calder for three months on Atlantic patrols in that time we contacted and sunk one U-boat, by this time we had got on top of the U-boat threat and were winning the war in the Atlantic.
	www.hmsfiredrake.co.uk /firedrake8.htm (1021 words)

	HMS Ganges
		The present H.M.S. GANGES was built on the Shotley peninsula as a shore training establishment for boy entrants into the Royal Navy in 1905.
		GANGES closed officially on October 28th, 1976 when the white Ensign was hauled down for the very last time and now hangs in the chapel of the Royal Hospital School, Holbrook.
		H.M.S. Ganges was possessed of a reputation in the Fleet that brought to the Shotley peninsula a depth of infamy, as a geographical hell hole, touched on only lightly by Devils Island and the Gulag Archipelago.
	www.rjerrard.co.uk /royalnavy/rnbooks/ganges.htm (951 words)

	HMS Ganges (1821) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Ganges was an 84-gun 2nd rate of the Royal Navy launched on November 10, 1821 at Bombay Dockyard.
		She is notable for being the last sailing ship of the Navy to serve as a flagship, and was the second ship to have borne the name.
		In 1906, she was renamed HMS Tenedos III, then moved to Devonport to become part of the HMS Indus training establishment; on August 13th, 1910, she was renamed HMS Indus V.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Ganges_(1821) (432 words)

	Ganges, British Columbia, Canada
		Ganges was named after HMS Ganges, the flagship of the Royal Navy's Pacific Station between 1857 and 1860.
		Location: Ganges is located in the geographical centre of Saltspring Island, in the sheltered waters of the Southern Gulf Islands of British Columbia.
		Ganges, the largest bustling seaside village in the Gulf Islands, is located 7.5 miles (12 km) north of Fulford Harbour.
	www.vancouverisland.com /Regions/towns/index.asp?townID=4067 (879 words)

	HMS Ganges Museum News Page
		The Trustees of the museum are pleased to announce that the Figurehead of the old HMS Ganges has been donated to the HMS Ganges Museum by the Trustees of the Royal Hospital, Greenwich.
		Between 1905 and 1976, when HMS Ganges closed as a boys training establishment, the Figurehead was located at various locations within HMS Ganges.
		In 1976 when HMS Ganges closed the Figurehead was presented to the Royal Hospital School at Holbrook, Suffolk and was displayed at the front of the school.
	www.hmsgangesmuseum.org.uk /news.htm (338 words)

	HMS Ganges - photographs of HMS GANGES
		H.M.S. GANGES was the shore training establishment for boy entrants into the Royal Navy from 1905 until 1976.
		During the following year H.M.S. GANGES quickly made them into men with a sound foundation and knowledge of their future profession; and the men made H.M.S. GANGES have the reputation for the highest standards.
		The mast lit up (1955) to commemorate the 50th anniversary of when H.M.S. GANGES was transferred to the new shore establishment.
	www.axfordsabode.org.uk /ganges.htm (706 words)

	HMS Argonaut Association - Links
		HMS Ambuscade Association - The HMS Ambuscade Associations site that gives you information on the Type 21 Frigate and her crew.
		HMS Ganges Association - The HMS Ganges Associations site that gives you information about the Training Establishment and the many thousands of crew.
		HMS Sirius Association - The HMS Sirius Associations site that gives you information on the Type Leander Frigate and her crew.
	www.hmsargonaut.co.uk /links.php (353 words)

	Navy News - Jack to Jack - Over To You - G to I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		HMS Intrepid: Curious to know more about a ‘Fisgig’ (a form of harpoon), which is mounted on a polished wooded plinth and was presented to HMS Intrepid by HM Dockyard Portsmouth ‘to commemorate a successful combined op.
		He was at HMS Ganges as a boy sailor some time in the 1930s, and later was at the 2nd Battle of Narvik and the Bismarck hunt (possibly in HMS Foxhound).
		HMS Grove: Robert Palmers uncle, Douglas James Holdaway, was killed in action whilst serving on HMS Grove, sunk by a german U-Boat on June 12th 1942.
	www.navynews.co.uk /oty/otygtoi.asp (2969 words)

	Gulf Islands Online - Feature story
		The 84-gun frigate HMS Ganges was originally built from 2,000 tons of Malabar teak at Bombay in 1821.
		After a fairly quiet beginning, the HMS Ganges served as flagship of the Pacific Squadron under Rear Admiral Sir Robert Lambert Baynes (of Baynes Peak fame) from 1857-61.
		The HMS Ganges was broken up in 1930, the last sailing ship to be a sea-going flagship.
	www.gulfislands.net /features.asp?ID=386 (716 words)

	HMS FIFE, and 5 years in the Royal Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		I tried putting HMS Fife in to some of the search engines, but they came up a blank, so this is my effort to remedy that.
		We were amongst the last to join at HMS Ganges (a shore base at Shotley Gate, near Ipswich).
		My first ship was HMS Kent (another County class destroyer), I have fewer photos from HMS Kent, but given a bit more time I will put some of those on this site.After I left the Kent I had a while up in Scotland, before going on to join the Fife.
	www.angelfire.com /nb/hmsfife/now.htm (298 words)

	HMS Ganges (1782) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Ganges was an 74-gun 3rd rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy launched on March 30, 1782 on the Thames.
		She was commissioned as a prison ship on December 12th 1811, for holding prisoners of war, transferred to the Board of Transport in 1814, and broken up at Plymouth in 1816.
		The HMS Ganges Association Website has a timeline of the activities of the Ganges.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Ganges_(1782) (233 words)

	HMS Ganges to Terror - Index
		The continued life of HMS BERMUDA from the Spring of 1959 to the end of 1960.
		A short reminisce in Sheerness in the year 2000 and a tale or two of the yard and HMS WILDFIRE in the 1950's with pictures.
		A trainee policeman in 1987 treads in the footsteps of his Uncle at GANGES in 1922.
	www.zyworld.com /HMSECHO/Contents.htm (1145 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - The Hall Family Of Kegworth
		Roy finished his nine-month training and went to Portsmouth to join HMS Hawkins, this however was having a refit, and he was then redrafted to join HMS Royal Oak.
		Whilst at HMS Ganges his main interest was on the shooting range.
		When Roy was drafted from HMS Ganges he was sent to Portsmouth in November 1938 to join HMS Hawkins.
	www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/stories/16/a5804516.shtml (1032 words)

	History of Shotley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It was at Shotley Point, that the wooden ship HMS Ganges, was berthed from 1899, and used as a cadet training ship for the Royal Navy.
		When the Ganges vessel was finally retired (and towed away to Chatham), the training facility, still named HMS Ganges, moved ashore (in 1905).
		The mast of the HMS Ganges still stands on the now-derelict site, which is proposed to be developed in the near future.
	www.onesuffolk.co.uk /ShotleyPC/History (619 words)

	HMS Fearless & Intrepid Association.
		The ‘HMS Fearless and Intrepid Association’ does not represent or warrant that the information accessible via the website is accurate, complete or correct and accepts no liability whatsoever in respect of any use which an individual makes of such information.
		The information provided on this website has not been written to meet individual requirements and it is the responsibility of the individual to satisfy themselves prior to using the information in any way that is suitable for that purpose.
		Whilst the ‘HMS Fearless and Intrepid Association’ makes all reasonable attempts to exclude viruses from the website it cannot ensure such exclusion and no liability is accepted for viruses.
	www.hmsfearless.org.uk (498 words)

	HMS GANGES ASSOCIATION VISIT TO RAF MARHAM 3 August 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The function of the Association is to keep the 'Spirit' of Ganges alive through the re-uniting of class and shipmates at the Annual Reunion and at other Divisional and local events.
		Membership of the Association is open to all personnel who were carried on the books of HMS Ganges, HMS St. George and HMS Bruce.
		The HMS Ganges Museum on the Shotley foreshore displays artefacts and memorabilia of life at HMS Ganges from its inception to its closure in 1976.
	www.rafmarham.co.uk /relations/visits-2005/3aug05-ganges/index.htm (821 words)

	Wikinfo \| Ted Briggs
		Albert Edward Pryke Briggs, MBE, (born 1 March 1923), is a British seaman and the last survivor of the tragic destruction of the battlecruiser HMS Hood during combat against the German battlecruiser Bismarck.
		After loss of Hood he was assigned to HMS Mercury and also paricipated in teh inquiry into the loss of Hood.
		In 1975 Briggs joined the HMS Hood Association as one of its youngest members and was elected as its first President.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.phtml?title=Ted_Briggs (817 words)

	HMSGanges
		This look at 'Ganges' takes a stroll round what is left at Shotley in 2000 but has its roots in my entering the Royal Navy there in February 1954.
		I have a theory that 'Ganges Boys' drinking abilities were learned in that swimming bath.
		'H.M.S., housed at the Marina, really is a must whether or not you were in 'Ganges' as it conveys, superbly, the feeling and atmosphere of the establishment that played such an important and fundamental role in training for the Royal Navy through most of the 20th Century from 1905 to 1976.
	www.burrill12.freeserve.co.uk /shotley/hmsganges.htm (2016 words)

	HMS Ganges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		HMS Ganges is situated about 10 miles east of ipswich, I'd left my parents looking very worried on Chesterfield railway station about 5 hours earlier, and arrived in Ipswich with
		There was a mast at Ganges, 147' high.
		All together I did 10 months at HMS Ganges, 6 months training and 4 months ships company.
	www.davesnavy.co.uk /ganges.html (569 words)

	My Shotley & Erwarton - HMS Ganges
		Update meetings on the Ganges No campaign The Peninsula Parishes Alliance will be showing a film on traffic problems on the area's roads and there will also be a chance to ask questions.
		It's announced that the Public Inquiry into Haylink's application for HMS Ganges is set for 14 February 2006, for an initial period of 12 sitting days, at Babergh District Council's offices in Hadleigh.
		Residents are being invited to make their views known regarding the proposed development of the former HMS Ganges
	www.myshotley.com /ganges.html (1324 words)

	Ordinary Seaman - Eric Webb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Eric had a passion for drawing and his role was to extend the business to include sign writing.
		In July 1941 Eric was called up for service in the Royal Navy and spent his 21st birthday at HMS Ganges, the Royal Navy training base for ratings.
		Eric wrote to his parents in April 1942 from Egypt, firstly from HMS Saunders (a shore base) then from HMS Conopus (another shore base).
	www.hms-arethusa.co.uk /obits/webb_e.html (192 words)

	Looking for HMS Daedalus veterans
		Joined at HMS Raleigh in May 89 and served at HMS Daedalus (Artificer training), HMS Birmingham for WIGS 90 and at RNAS Portland 702 Squadron.
		He served on HMS Cambrian (63-64), at Daedalus (64-66), HMS St Angelo (68-68), on HMS Hermes at HMS Cochrane and on HMS Dido (to 1973).
		After training at HMS Ganges and HMS Raleigh I went onto HMS Bulwark in '61 as a baby stoker.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /Daedalus/whom.htm (1611 words)

	Drake 320/321 Classes, HMS Ganges, 1968
		Joined HMS SCOTT (Survey Vessel) from March 1960 to March 1961 surveying the east coast of UK from Dover to Grimsby.
		Joined HMS AISNE for refit in Chatham March1961 and we then toured the Med and East African Coast until until Jan, 1964.
		Finally drafted to HMS Ganges as an instructor until I left the service in 1970.
	www-users.york.ac.uk /~jn105/thennow.htm (368 words)

	www.bravenet.com - A Bravenet.com Sitering
		HMS Juno 1970-72 commission of the Communications Branch - 29 Mess - JOKES and a Locker Door Pin-uo.
		New Zealand Division of the HMS Ganges boys training school (1906 - 1976), listing its ex-pat members and information regarding the association's activities within New Zealand.
		A basic photo-gallery of life in HMS Terror in the 1960's.
	pub32.bravenet.com /sitering/nav.php?usernum=2682940990&action=list&siteid=33923 (459 words)

	Drake 320/321 Classes, HMS Ganges, 1968
		Below is a collection of photographs and the text of two reports we wrote for the HMS GANGES Gazette, which is produced by the HMS GANGES Association.
		Through contacts made via the HMS Ganges Association website, and an advertisement in the Navy News, five members and one class instructor of 320/321 classes, Drake Division, 1968/9, met up at Shotley on the 10 August.
		Some of us left photos of our time at Ganges, which Ron gratefully received on behalf of the museum as they added to the exhibits for the 1960s.
	www-users.york.ac.uk /~jn105/reunions.htm (557 words)

	HMS Ganges - The Royal Navy Ships of Victor Johns
		HMS Ganges - The Royal Navy Ships of Victor Johns
		Dad entered HMS Ganges on the 10th August 1937 aged 16 years 8 months.
		He left on the 15th July 1938 to complete his training on the cruiser HMS Dragon.
	home.swipnet.se /ew-11578/hms_ganges.htm (138 words)

	Memorial to Petty Officer Jack Elford Moon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Biographical Information: Jack was the son of George and Margaret Moon of Hastings, Sussex, and brother to Bill Moon (who joined the Army at the outbreak of war) and younger sister Rose Moon (who joined the Wrens).
		Jack joined HMS Ganges as a boy, served aboard HMS London during her voyages to Malta, Cyprus, Egypt, Italy, Yugoslavia, Crete and Turkey, before joining H.M.S. Hood in 1940.
		On November16, 1939 he married his 17 year old bride Ivy (Sue) Potter of Portsmouth, their son John was born in Winchester 11 December 1940.
	www.hmshood.com /crew/memorial/m/MoonJE.html (177 words)

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