Some 100 boy-sailors were in the canteen, chewing and chattering; clattering knives forks and spoons against plates and bowls. He was sitting on a stool and told me to stand in front of him and begin. 11.00 to 17.00 Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays between Easter and the end of October. The HMS Ganges training base, which opened in 1905, closed in 1976 and has remained derelict. . Jim Gitsham, chairman of the Shotley branch of the HMS Ganges Association, said: "Members will be delighted that he's going down. It was easy to spot those who had been here the longest. Report . One not only suffered the punishment such as doubling up and down the steps of laundry hill with a 303 rifle held high. contact IPSO here, 2001-2023. Im here as my Son (15) wants to join the RN - Wellbeck route AIB soon. As a matter of interest how many of you did your 22 and beyond not many I suspect therefore you look back with nostalgia, fcuking hated the place and made certain I never treated any of my guys the same as the youngsters were treated there. So as I have said already, we kept our heads down aiming for that final day when wed be drafted to a ship. The HMS Ganges site was initially opened in 1904 acted as a boys training facility for the Royal Navy. STANDING on a wooden disc about a foot in diameter, and saluting, does not sound too much of a challenge, unless it is 143feet above the ground and you only have a lightning conductor to grip between your knees. Were you at HMS Ganges? Royal Navy 238217 Ordinary Seaman HMS Niobe . HMS Ganges was the name given to several Royal Navy ships since from 1779, but in 1905 it was chosen as title for a new training base at Shotley Gate, near Ipswich where about 500 boy recruits were stationed. the reason i remember the date is that it was my 15th birthday, We got shipped out to Suez in October 1956 cutting short our training by a couple of months. Rather than do the two as a pongo I signed on the dotted line for a dozen , best thing I ever did and I regret not staying in for the full time . In the first week of January it was snowed even harder and it snowed until March. I came across a clip on youtube that really saddened me and it tells its own story about the UK as it is now and the real fact that such things as pride, standards etc have long been lost and decay and neglect are the order of the day, I do not need to walk very far from my home to see with my own eyes the evidence all around me. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience the local community. To get to the platform you would climb out over the Devil's Elbow, legs dangling in the air, only your grip keeping you from certain death. Read about our approach to external linking. Review of a book of anecdotes about legendary UK boys' naval establishment HMS Ganges, which at any one time housed as many as 2,000 trainee sailors in their middle teens. It. It may not display this or other websites correctly. Well this seems a good time to see if this site works properly. Realizing his mistake he fought back and with no way out he had no choice but to work his ticket. If you have a complaint about the editorial content which relates to The lower portion of the mast is steel, extending 18 feet (5.5 m) below ground and 30 feet (9.1 m) above ground. Martin Foster, 54, of Haig Road, Uxbridge, had already admitted two charges of fraud by abuse of position. An appeal by Woolverstone Parish Council was turned down two years later. Maybe we were unlucky with Instructors as one was Court Marshalled, discharged and sent to prison for so called abuse. During Ganges's time in Cornwall allegations of harsh and brutal treatment were reported to the Admiralty.One wardroom steward shot himself over the matter, and the reports aroused indignation in the local community. . Harry and Meghan told to 'vacate' Frogmore Cottage, Explosive found in check-in luggage at US airport, Fungus case forces Jack Daniels to halt construction, Rare Jurassic-era bug found at Arkansas Walmart, China and Belarus call for peace in Ukraine. Read about our approach to external linking. A historic Grade II listed former Royal Navy training mast has been taken down ahead of restoration work. Through the year the training was intense, probably a good thing, it gave us little time to regret joining the navy. . Dec 30, 2016. Roe told me "I don't like you." Mr Davis added: They have had the last conditions, including the fire hydrants agreed. Charles Dickens might have penned it the best of times and the worst of times. Maurice was nothing to do with HMS Ganges, in fact he had been a crew member of HMS Hambledon. Mr Youngman, who joined the navy aged 15 in 1965, said he had previously climbed up to the top of the mast but "couldn't wait to get back down". She was based alternately in Falmouth, Harwich and Shotley . (LogOut/ It would not be an exaggeration to say not one of us had the slightest idea of what lay in store for the next year. Every letter of our names had to be perfectly in line. Who would have believed us, this was 1955 words like pedophile and sexual abuse were unheard of. Picture: CLAGUE ARCHITECTS, The Duke of Edinburgh visiting HMS Ganges in June 1973 Picture: ARCHANT. Ganges training establishment. H.M.S. Allegations of Abuse. HMS Ganges 'He had the misfortune to be placed under the care of two particularly brutal and drunken instructors whose continual bullying and abuse proved too much for this emerging free spirit ' His early life was hard by any standards. HMS Ganges was also known as Shotley Training Establishment . The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. [1] (LogOut/ First the older of the two, Maurice WRIGHT JX 657902. The mast has been a local landmark since it was. HMS Ganges is situated on the Shotley Peninsula in Suffolk. From the top of the mast, its a long way to come ! HP10 9TY. Its really difficult to give a definitive time scale but once things get going I would imagine that progress will be very visible whereas a lot of the work going on over the past two or three years hasnt necessarily been seen by the public.. Editors' Code of Practice. "They had a hard life, but they were fed and looked after. Richard Dunn. they said. She was established as a boys' training establishment in 1865, and was based aboard a number of hulks before moving ashore. If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can However, in the meantime we were still at the mercy of our instructors. There was a seamanship officer at the boat sheds. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Joined Ganges Feb '61..went through the same as everyone else. He was quite good too. Ganges will for ever be the legacy of every young boy who passed through those distant gates to emerge as a sailor and a man. This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. LRO (G) Served from 1975 - 1998 Served in HMS Ganges. The one chippy bugger who thought it good fun to make you spar with him in the wash room (Annexe) I met up with in the Far Flung and gave him more than he gave me. It closed in 1998 or something. (LogOut/ Justin I saw the mast fully manned three times and it was a wonderful sight to see as it was so well choreographed and I was always amazed how the button boy could even get onto the button, when there was a breeze the mast moved a few good feet at the top of it and as I said all he had to hold onto was a knee high lighting conductor. Change). HMS Ganges was a training ship and later stone frigate of the Royal Navy. However lessons, culminating in a test, were much more difficult. 4 reviews When Peter Broadbent entered HMS Ganges, the toughest training establishment for young recruits to the Royal Navy, he was a naive 15-year-old Yorkshire schoolboy, entranced with the idea of seeing the world, proud of his drainpipe trousers and DA hairstyle, and eager to meet girls. He had the misfortune to be placed under the care of two particularly brutal and drunken instructors whose continual bullying and abuse proved too much for this emerging free spirit . They were both Ordinary Seamen, one aged 17 and the other aged 18. ", HMS Ganges as a warship (Image: HMS Ganges Museum). When I say there was sexual abuse Im speaking from personal experience. HMS Ganges was the name given to several Royal Navy ships since from 1779, but in 1905 it was chosen as title for a new training base at Shotley Gate, near Ipswich where about 500 boy recruits. Picture: CLAGUE ARCHITECTS (Image: CLAGUE ARCHITECTS). attempted to climb to the top of the mast, Harry and Meghan told to 'vacate' Frogmore Cottage, Explosive found in check-in luggage at US airport, Fungus case forces Jack Daniels to halt construction, Aboriginal spears taken in 1770 to return to Sydney, China and Belarus call for peace in Ukraine, Rare Jurassic-era bug found at Arkansas Walmart. Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services. At 14 he ran away to join the Royal Navy and 'signed on' for 12 years. yes I was there in 92 .Essex, Nolfolk , Herts Suffolk and Cambs police all used it. Other things we had to do included, clean a toilet with a toothbrush, polish a hundred square feet of block-wood flooring with a boot brush every night before going to bed, paint the inside of a dustbin white before putting your rubbish into it. "A lot of the boys came from foster homes, or Barnardos. According to the HMS Ganges Museum, her timbers were used to make objects including a grand staircase on an estate, and a cocktail bar in a small hotel, both in Devon. His early life was hard by any standards. Please Login or Register. Recruits used to climb the 143ft (44m)-high mast in formation, with the "button boy" standing on a small, circular platform at the very top, hands-free, but with his legs resting against a metal supporting bar. Sad to see such an establishment close as it was so full of history and meant so much to so many. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's HP10 9TY. MT2 Served from 1965 - 2021 Served in HMS Ganges. Im quite sure few if any boys receiving cuts ever thought to run away again. Data returned from the Piano 'meterActive/meterExpired' callback event. GANGES was the shore training establishment for boy entrants into the Royal Navy from 1905 until 1976. But, because of the lockdown nothing has really moved and I think, even though construction workers havent leagally been told theyre not allowed to do anything, the owners are a bit reluctant to move. John Garrett. The Royal Naval Training Establishment Shotley (known within the Royal Navy as HMS Ganges) was established in southern Suffolk in 1905. "It's very high - you get a good view though.". H.M.S. We had no one to confide in, our instructors would more than likely told us not to tell tales. George Blake joined the Navy in 1935 and served up to 1950. There were stories of many similar violations but none ever reported. Mr W Im sure the surprise and very welcome CD that popped through my letter box today was from you dear sir, so thanks very much and Im looking forward to listening to it very soon. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. We were ordered to turn around and bend over, if the instructor was satisfied we were clean, we were allowed out. It was hoped that Developers Haylink Ltd would start work early this year, but their plans were scuppered by the Covid-19 pandemic. Restoration of the historic HMS Ganges Mast is well under way at Barrelmans Point in Shotley. I joined up in 1968,three years after my brother, he hated it I was one off the sad ones that loved it, even the kit musters on the mast! Babergh District councillor Ganges, Derek Davis, said: From my own personal perspective I have seen how closely our officers and our planning team have worked with the owners of the site and I can imagine that once the lockdown is over and the guys get started, progress will be made very quickly. Registered in England & Wales | 01676637 |. For breakfast porridge was on offer, that salt-coated gruel I'd been forced to eat every morning of my schoolboy days. Statistics for the 1930s indicate some 200 official canings per year in HMS Ganges alone, an average of four per week. The only thing I can remember of that awesome night, apart from collecting a kit bag and filling it to capacity with kit, was sobbing myself to sleep and that I ate the biggest meal I'd ever eaten in my entire 15 years of life. HMS GANGES 6th May 2009 - YouTube. The cold water often caused some boys to duck in and out of the water quickly or sometimes not at all. The training was tough, brutal at times, yet many of those who came through remember HMS Ganges, at Shotley Gate, with a certain fondness. 1937. They say you never forget the place and I agree. last entry 16.30 We are also please to welcome visitors at any other time by prior appointment - please telephone 01473 788315 or 01473 788723 to arrange this. Artist's impression showing the view across a residential street at the redeveloped HMS Ganges site in Shotley Gate. Saw your message. My heart sank and my elation evaporated as I desperately tried to quash all fears of my body falling from the Devil's Elbow. inaccuracy or intrusion, then please He deserted on numerous occasions and willfully disobeyed orders . Graduating from Ganges held the promise of better times ahead, we would be real sailors, excited at the prospect of visiting far off and exotic lands. Heard so much about HMS Ganges though and it sounded very good for developing 'real sailors ' but as much as I hate to admit it I suspect it would have been too much for me . As Rudyard Kipping wrote in his famous poem IF the you will be a man my son. Martin Foster was treasurer for veterans who served at HMS Ganges training base in Sufffolk. HMS Ganges as a training ship in the 1900s (Image: HMS Ganges Museum). Engineer commander had been on Amethyst up the Yangtse and was quite sympathetic when he was OOD. Even by naval training standards life there was controlled by a very strict regime. 1906. For spite I think, because it wasn't compulsory. Maybe we boxed each other in the Shotley annexe! Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. At 14 he ran away to join the Royal Navy and signed on for 12 years. To get out of the showers we had to stand before our instructor legs apart arms raised for inspection. The next six years passed with regular naval detentions, ( Royal Naval Detention Quarters RNDQs Portsmouth) exhausting punishments, solitary confinements, ending with a twelve month sentence in the infamous HMP Corradino, Malta. . 2023 BBC. While I probably believed the stories, I was still determined to quality for my chain. It had to be a joke! Crowned on June 2, 1953, at the age of 25, Elizabeth II went on to have the longest reign for a British queen. Standing at 143ft, the mast is made up of three main parts; the main 75ft mast came from HMS Cordelia, a steam corvette built in Portsmouth, the top mast of 47.5 ft wooden ruffle box from HMS Agincourt, which was renamed HMS Boscawen, and then Ganges II. HMS Ganges Museum is dedicated to the 160,000 boys who went through the gates as boys and marched out as men, from its inception as a Royal Navy Training Establishment in 1905 to its closure in 1976. Ronald Carr. The Admiralty decided that the shore base should bear the name of the original training ship, HMS Ganges. contact the editor here. You are using an out of date browser. We had just finished PT before going to supper, so I was in shorts. The Cattlemarket area of Ipswich would be busy at weekends with boys in full naval uniform. Royal Navy 238217 Boy 2nd Class HMS Ganges II. Such a tragedy that this historical place has been left to rot. The mast was erected in 1907 for boy entrant training purposes using the lower foremast (steel) from HMS Cordelia (1881) with other sections from the mizzen mast of HMS Agincourt (1865). They looked like what we didn't, sailors. Did my intro to Pusser at HMS Raleigh in ' 52 . NO FLOWERS FOR GEORDIE, HE'S NOT HERE TODAYTHE SEA HAS CLAIMED MY GEORDIE BOYPLEASE NO FLOWERS TODAYFIFTEEN YEARS OF LEARNING, HE'LL NOT GO DOWN THE MINESO WE TOOK HIM NEAR TO IPSWICH TOWNFAR FROM THE SEAMS OF THE TYNEIN A PLACE THEY STILL CALL 'GANGES' WITH TWO THOUSAND OTHER BOYSHE LEARNED TO SPLICE AND SAIL A BOATTALL ORDERS WERE HIS TOYSTHE 'BULLY BOYS' CAME NIGHTLY, DID THINGS A BOY COUNDN'T TELLBUT THEY MADE HIM WRITE IN HIS LETTERS HOME MAMMA YOU'R BOY'S DOIN WELLTHEN NEWS CAME OF SOME FIGHTING IN A FAR OFF DISTANT LANDWE NEED THOSE BOYS THUS SPAKE FOUR RINGSIN OUR BIG SHIPS THEY CAN RIDEIT'S WRITTEN ON HIS PAPERS, TWAS NOT THE DEED OF A MAN BUT A WAVE THAT TOOK MY GEORDIE BOYFIVE MILES OFF PLYMOUTH SOUNDSO NO FLOWERS FOR GEORDIE HE'S NOT HERE TODAY THE SEA HAS CLAIMED MY GEORDIE BOYPLEASE NO FLOWERS TODAY. Life at Ganges was recalled recently in The Evening Star when a book about the base by Alan Peck was published. Outbreak of World War One. He would lay on the number of cuts prescribed, each cut raised a welt on the boys buttocks. CHARGE CHIEF PETTY OFFICER (WEA) Served from 1974 - 1997 Served in HMS Ganges. Each evening after we had cleaned the mess, we took everything out of the locker rolled each item into a nine-inch sausage, tied white tape around both ends, and then placed every item on a blanket. Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History 13 March 1653 - Death of Simon de Vlieger (c. 1601, Rotterdam - buried 13 March 1653, Weesp) Simon de Vlieger (c. 1601, Rotterdam - buried 13 March 1653, Weesp) was a Dutch designer, draughtsman, and painter, most famous for. Welcome Guest. It had to be neatly folded and stacked, each item one above the other, with each item measuring exactly nine inches wide and one inch flat. Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Yes, I got it wrong! in the RN with the nickname Doc. A question of Religion?Maybe MaybeNot???? I did climb that mast. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. The inquiry was carried out by Hampshire Police after debit card transactions of 4,200 and cash machine withdrawals totalling 74,000 were made from the association's bank accounts between August 2010 and June 2012. Discussions between developers and Babergh District Council planning officers have been concluded five years after plans for the huge project were given outline planning permission in December 2015. Doesnt sound too bad does it. The water was freezing cold, we never had hot water. This page is dedicated to the memory of Tony whose commitment to the Royal Navy and especially HMS Ganges was unlimited. These were all regular happenings at Ganges. The site was closed in 1976 and was used as a maaried quarter estate by the RAF. Some boys failed the initial inspection which only lengthen their time in the freezing conditions. Martin Foster, 54, of Haig Road, Uxbridge, had already admitted two charges of fraud by abuse of position. This punishment was something I never witnessed and can only describe from what other boys told me. Sadists most of them and that's from a 15 year old who was in a council care home before he joined, streetwise to fcuk and kept my head down. Ken Smith, who now lives in Brighton, sent me memories of arriving at HMS Ganges in the severe winter of 1963 and his fear of the dreaded mast. A Gannett Company. A Gannett Company. Early in 1940 Admiralty decided to close Ganges as a Boys Training Establishment and in April it became a Hostilities Only Training Establishment. Nevertheless, as bad and as cruel as I have describe Ganges, I remain proud to call myself a Ganges Boy. Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services. As a subscriber, you are shown 80% less display advertising when reading our articles. Helpful Report abuse Kindle Customer Sorting The Wheat From The Chaff Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2014 1927. He was an Electricians Mate Class 1 and served in, 12/03/35-09/01/36 HMS Ganges. Crowds of boys from HMS Ganges would visit Ipswich when they were given a day off from the harsh naval discipline at Shotley. HMS Ganges - part of front gate Having completed the New Entry training over at the Annex (I think it took six weeks), we then marched over to Drake 39 mess over in the Main Establishment. Find out more about HMS Ganges at www.hmsgangesmuseum.com, or visit the museum, located at the end of King Edward VII Drive, in Shotley, IP9 1QJ. She remained in service at RNTE Shotley until October 1976. The previous evening I'd arrived at HMS Ganges training annexe, with an assortment of other would-be-sailors, and was placed in the capable hands of a spotty-faced junior instructor and a bullet-proof gunnery instructor who wore crossed guns on both lapels. View of the iconic mast at the former HMS Ganges site in Shotley Gate. Read about our approach to external linking. I had already taught myself to swim. CEM1 Served from 1972 - 1978 Served in HMS Ganges. On the parade ground the order went something like On the command fix! The left hand went behind the cheek of your left buttock and twisted the bayonet and scabbard upward. Click here to remove banner ads from this forum. If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can Jon Sparks. "I remember another of the Ganges boys, they were talking to a visitor at the museum, and she said 'it was quite brutal, wasn't it? Thanks again, D. R. WALTON the only O.E.M. One person found this helpful. The latest development means that construction work could start immediately, however, due to the coronavirus outbreak, progress has been delayed. I knew a gentleman who said when he was at Ganges in 1947 he had his first taste of hot food. It had been HO (Hostilities-only) traing during the war. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience the local community. The showers usually took place at the crack of dawn, summer or winter we ran from the barrack towel around our waist to the showers. The 142-foot high (43 m) mast was erected in 1907. Shotly Jan 7 1967 , 4 weeks in the annex, 11months in the main establishment,left the RN after 26 years, as C.C.MEA(P) and you could tell Ganges trained men a mile off, Regrets not a bit.Sorry for the lad in my class that drank a pint of pussers disinfectant (The black stuff that turned white when you added water) I believe he got his Discharge. She was established as a boys' training establishment in 1865, and was based aboard a number of hulks before moving ashore. This was the job of the button boy at HMS Ganges who had to shin up the last fifteen feet or so to climb on the button during ceremonial parades. HMS Ganges moved moorings from Harwich to Shotley. Learn how your comment data is processed. Real posh supercilious bastard. My instructors were Nobby Clarke and Ted Roe. HMS Ganges was a training ship and later stone frigate of the Royal Navy. Roger Jones, chairman at the HMS Ganges Museum said: "HMS Ganges was originally a ship of the wooden wall, launched in 1821. This portion was taken from the foremast of the corvette Cordelia which was paid off . ", The honours board from the HMS Ganges, showing the victories of all the Royal Navy ships bearing the name (Image: HMS Ganges Museum). In 1907, its famous training mast was erected on the parade ground. Mr Jones also offered reassurance around the historic mast, despite fears about its dilapidated state. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. She was established as a boys' training establishment in 1865, and was based aboard a number of hulks before moving ashore. I was out of there in an instant, but never said a word to anyone, I was just happy it was over and I had qualified. 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