HMS CARDIGAN BAY's final departure from
Hong Kong,
November 1960.

Welcome to the HMS Cardigan Bay Association
President:- Michael Solomons.
Chairman:- Ron Binmore. Treasurer:- Tony Palmer. Secretary:- Gordon Green. Welfare:- Michael Solomons.

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To ALL SPAMMERS - Our SPAM Policy,
You send us SPAM, we send it to the Trash/Rubbish Bin!

Our Reunion this year will be held in Coventry between 1st and 4th of October. More information will become available from members of the committee as time goes by, but Shipmate Tony Palmer is ready to take your booking and your deposit now. There will be a free coach trip on Sunday the 3rd.

 

There has been a technical hitch with our Signing On Form page but I am pleased to say I have managed to mend it and it now works perfectly.

 


The new RFA Cardigan Bay page

I am pleased to announce that contact has been made with the new Captain of the RFA Cardigan Bay - Captain David Buck (Capt Nigel Jones retired earlier this year) who has sent us the latest information on the work of the ship and some fresh pictures which are very good and enlightening. I am hopeful of receiving more in the future, so watch this space as they say. I am sure you would all want to express thanks for these and the knowledge that the link between our two ships will continue and remain something positive and strong. Whilst there is nothing concrete at the moment, I am led to believe there may be the possibility of a visit to the ship when she returns to the UK in 2011. This is all I can say at the moment but needless to say, as soon as I hear anything positive, you will be the first to know.

Please have a look at our new service as shown on "Lost and Found" Shipmates, perhaps we can help to re unite old friends?

Our Guest Book
Frequently ex Cardigan Bay crew who unfortunately are not members of the Association, but who still wish to remain in contact with their old pals visit our site. To see if any of your old mates have left an entry, be sure to make a regular check of the Guest Book. To those who do use the Guest Book but are not members, why not join the Association, it only costs £5-00 a year, the price of a pint!

The HMS Cardigan Bay Association is non profit making and has been established to promote camaraderie and friendship between all those who served aboard the Royal Naval vessel HMS Cardigan Bay at any time throughout the vessels commissioned service.

Membership of the Association is open to ALL those who served aboard HMS Cardigan Bay at ANY TIME!

Friends of the Association - may be a wife, partner or relative of a subscribing member, or widow, partner, relative or friend of a deceased member, irrespective of whether the deceased member was a subscribing member at the time of his death.

We have 107 members at present and are always pleased to meet up with old shipmates. So if you have served aboard HMS Cardigan Bay at any time and would like to get back in touch with your old pals please email us, we would be pleased to hear from you.....

Shipmates, I am looking for pictures and items of interest to put on our web site. Anything you have showing the activities of the ship, places you visited, shipmates of yesteryear etc etc, I will be more than delighted to "Borrow". I promise you faithfully that you will get them back safe and sound.
Ron Binmore (Chairman)

If you are an ex HMS Cardigan Bay, please use our "Signing On Form" to join the HMS Cardigan Bay Association, we will be delighted to have you among us. There is no commitment except to pay a subscription of £5-00 for the Associations funds. You don't have to attend any regular meetings, do anything, orgnise anything or run anything. For your £5-00, you will get a copy of our regular News Letter which will keep you abreast of events, plus a membership list which shows the names of all the members, their addresses and commissions, something which will enable you to keep in contact with your shipmates. Look forward to hearing from you.

 

Comissioned Service

June 1945 to December 1945 Lt Cdr J.Aitken. DSC
Jan 1946 to October 1946 Cdr C.Maud DSO DSC
November 1946 to July 1948 Capt G.K.Collett DSC
July 1948 to January 1950 Capt R.C.Medley DSO OBE
January 1950 to August 1951 Capt W.M.L.Brown DSO OBE DSC
August 1951 to Feb 1953 Capt H.C.B. Coleridge DSO DSC
February 1953 to October 1954 Capt B.C.Durant DSO DSC
October 1954 to April 1956 Capt E.N.Pumphrey DSO DSC
April 1956 to April 1958 Capt G.O.Roberts
April 1958 to October 1959 Capt P.J.Wyatt CBE DSC
October 1959 to April 1961 Capt A.R.Aldous
5th March 1962 Arrived Troon for breaking up.

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