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ASDA BAG-PACKING: Saturday 7th. April 2012

The generous and unselfish clientele of ASDA in Coleraine, helped allow the cadets of TS DUKE OF YORK, Portrush Sea Cadets and adult volunteers raise the staggering amount of £1,206 . 00.

Two very happy helpers; Sea Cadet, OC Carl Kennedy (14) and Unit Management Committee Treasurer, Mrs. Pamela McLean

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SEVENTY YEARS ON - DO YOU RECOGNISE ANY OF...

SEVENTY YEARS ON (2012) - DO YOU RECOGNISE ANY OF THESE FINE PEOPLE? IF SO, PLEASE GET IN TOUCH - LET US KNOW - Telephone 028 708 25 999 E-mail: portrushseacadets@btconnect.com or, write a letter, have YOU any memorabilia of Unit 274? We would love to hear from you.

Photograph taken by Dr. Mant Martin, Christmas 1942, in Portrush Library (the old Portrush Town Hall)

(Left) Standing - In Charge Mr. Sugden

(Left) Seated - Instructor Mr. T. Gillespie

(Right) Standing - Chief Instructor Mr. B. Strathdee

(Right) Seated - Instructor Seated Mr. E. Bingham

Photograph supplied by Gordon Bell and S. Robinson

HMS CHARGER VISITS PORTRUSH FOR EASTER 2012 -...

TS DUKE OF YORK, Portrush Sea Cadets - the cadets and adult volunteers were invited to take a look around a 'real' Royal Navy ship.

HMS CHARGER is based at Brunswick Dock on the site of the new Royal Naval Headquarters, Merseyside. The sixth ship to be named HMS CHARGER, commissioned in June 1988, displacement of 49 tonnes, a length of 68ft and a beam of 19ft.

After service with the Severn Division RNR at Bristol, she was transferred in October 1990 to the Liverpool University Royal Naval Unit, which was formed in October 1971 and is now located within Royal Naval Headquarters (RNHQ) Merseyside. Here the students receive instruction on seamanship, navigation management and leadership. HMS Charger provides the practical navigation and seamanship training at sea.

For more photographs of the visit to HMS CHARGER, please go to - NEWS : PICTURE GALLERY : OFFSHORE : 1 & 2

DIGNITARIES TOUR THE RECENTLY REFURBISHED...

To commence celebrate their seventieth anniversary year, distinguished guests were invited to tour the refurbished Headquarters and two new lecture rooms of TS DUKE OF YORK, Portrush Sea Cadets, in Dunluce Avenue, Portrush on Friday 23rd. March. The move from Portrush Harbour - where the cadets commenced training in 1942, then - over the coal sheds, where Portrush Yacht Club is now situated, to their new building in Dunluce Avenue, it was built by adult volunteers and cadets in 1960. Fifty years later, the well-known Sea Cadet Unit in Portrush, with financial assistance by application to the Youth Capital Grant Scheme by the Department of Education. The Unit Management Committee applied to the Department to upgrade the building, the Application was successful, to the 'tune' of £130,000 . 00, the funding was used to refurbish the entire main building, upgrading facilities for cadets and adult volunteers - new offices, galley, toilets (heads) suitable for people with disabilities, new lighting, central heating, fire and smoke alarm control systems, computer wiring throughout and, a 'Deck' area recently further fitted out with interesting nautical and Royal Navy memorabilia.

To further enhance and give much needed extra space to the Headquarters refurbished facilities, the Registered Charity raised funding on its own, to purchase two new exterior lecture rooms - one for training Sea Cadets (12 - 18 years of age), the other for Portrush Sea Cadets Detachment of Royal Marines Cadets (13 - 18 years of age). These fine buildings are interconnected with the central computer systems and teaching aids.

Attending the day of celebrations: Colonel Joan Christie OBE Lord-Lieutenant of and for the County of Antrim : Colonel Denis F. Desmond CBE Lord-Lieutenant of and for the County of Londonderry : Captain Mark Windsor Royal Navy Captain Sea Cadet Corps : Commander Peter C. D. Campbell LVO OBE DL Royal Navy President: Portrush Sea Cadets T. S. DUKE OF YORK : Commander Ian Allen RD RNR Commanding Officer HMS HIBERNIA : Commander Mark Buchan-Steele Royal Navy Area Officer (North) Sea Cadet Corps : Edward Montgomery Esq Representative: The Honourable The Irish Society : Barry Funston, Director of EMO, DCC Energy Limited - the Unit is honoured by the charitable generosity of the Company and, Wilson Briggs, Chairman and Managing Director of Alfred Briggs (Alwood) Limited - a presentation to Mr. Briggs in recognition of his generosity - a Boatswain's (Bosun's) Call and its history. Mr. Briggs recently donated bespoke fitted-furniture for the Wardroom, there was a special 'illuminated' address : A. F. Ian McCullough Chairman, Portrush Sea Cadets T. S. DUKE OF YORK : Graham W. McLaughlin Vice-Chairman, Portrush Sea Cadets T. S. DUKE OF YORK : Mrs. Pamela A. McLean Treasurer: Portrush Sea Cadets T. S. DUKE OF YORK.

After the tour and presentation, the Chairman, TS DUKE OF YORK, Portrush Sea Cadets - the Chairman entertained his guests in the renowned 55° North Restaurant, with views overlooking the Arcadia, the East strand, Skerries Isles, part of Royal Portrush Golf Club, Isle of Jura and the Causeway Coast, everyone seated to enjoy a seafaring luncheon of gravadlax and special Sea Cadet Fish Pie

Chairman: TS DUKE OF YORK, Portrush Sea Cadets, A. F. Ian McCullough, with WIlson Briggs, Chairman and Managing Director - Alfred Briggs (Alwood) Limited and Captain Sea Cadet Corps, Captain Mark Windsor, Royal Navy - in the newly refurbished Sea Cadet building in Dunluce Avenue, Portrush. Mr. Briggs receiving an 'illuminated' address from the Unit for his generous gift of two fitted furniture shelving units for the Wardroom. (Friday 23rd March 2012) For more photographs, go to: NEWS : PICTURE GALLERY : EVENTS : 5 & 6 .