Four of our volunteers were honoured to be invited to the annual HMS Cleopatra Old Shipmates Association Reunion Dinner as part of their Reunion Weekend in Harrogate this month.

The dinner raised funds for the Old Shipmates Association and was held at the Cedar Court Hotel.

Our Unit is TS Cleopatra, named after HMS Cleopatra. 'TS' stands for 'Training Ship', harking back to the days when young sailors would join up as cadets before they were able to join the Navy as adults. 

PO Freer who attended the event said:

"It was an honour to meet the sailors that served aboard the various HMS Cleopatra's. It was a fabulous evening."

The last HMS Cleopatra (F28) was a Leander-class frigate. She launched on 21 March 1964, commissioned on 1 March 1966 and was decommissioned on 31 January 1992. She was the sixth HMS Cleopatra of the Royal Navy, the first was a 32-gun Amazon-class fifth-rate frigate built in 1778 and launched in November 1779.

Pictured: PO Freer and Mike Langford, Area Chair Eastern, District Chair NEY and Unit Chair Harrogate