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New Year's Newsletter

The New Year's Newsletter is out now.

See link below to download it.

Need a boat and berth? Just ask !

When our AVO-North, Chris Todd, had to secure a small boat for the North East area at short notice and without having an immediate berth for it, three organisations rallied round to make things happen.

The nearest MVS Unit – Humber under the leadership of Nicholas Spencer offered to speak to their local Sea Cadets. Coming up trumps, CPO Steve Dale, First Lt and currently acting CO Scunthorpe Sea Cadet Corps, offered a place on the hard standing at their canal-side location near Keadby.

Co-operation wins over cards

Chris Todd (our AVO-North) decided that this year in lieu of writing out all those Christmas cards and posting them off to the four corners of the Kingdom, he would do something useful with the money instead.  Having seen at first hand the good work done by the Nurses of Macmillan Cancer Support, Chris decided to donate the postage and card money to that cause.

 

Maritime Media Awards 2011: Unreported Ocean

 

The Maritime Foundation promotes Britain’s interests across the entire maritime sector. Its purpose is to inform and raise public and parliamentary awareness of the importance of Britain’s maritime industries, commerce and defence through education, training and research.

Made by the Maritime Foundation, the short film 'Maritime Media Awards 2011: Unreported Ocean' is a fascinating video documentary that features the Maritime Volunteer Service.

Appleby Weekend 9th - 12th December 2011

 

On the weekend of 9th to 12th December our national training ship, Appleby, proved herself to be to be the ideal training vessel we all know her to be when members of the Portsmouth, Gosport and London units welcomed members of the Christchurch unit for a weekend's training onboard.

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