MVS Weymouth and Portland

The Weymouth and Portland Unit of the MVS meets on a Monday evening outside the Portland MCA Centre along the Weymouth Harbourside at 19.00 hrs for a 19.30 start.
 

For further information please contact:

Head of Unit, Rob on
07818 898023 or robkarly2008@aol.com

We currently have 14 members (August 2011) and examples of the activities of the Unit are as follows:

• assisting the Weymouth and Portland national Sailing Academy with safety boat drivers and crew during national and world sailing events
• supporting the Weymouth Harbour Master with various duties such as manning the local slipway, helping out in the harbour office, harbour and bay patrols in the RIBs and assisting with various maintenance jobs in & around the harbour.

Some of our members can be seen in this photo

and here the Head of Unit with a petition in support of the MCA and the potential location of the super-centre in the Weymouth and Portland area.

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For many years Dave Heap from the Weymouth and Portland unit has participated in the wreath laying service at the site of the sinking of HMS Foylebank on 4th July 1940 in Portland Harbour. Annually, together with Ginger Reynolds (seen in photo below) now aged 92 (and the last living survivor of the sinking)  and his family,  a wreath has been laid at the site. The wreath is then recovered and taken to the Royal Naval Cemetery on Portland for a short memorial service