HMS Ganges was Britain's largest Royal Naval training establishment from 1905 until it closed in 1975 A former soldier has started a campaign to save an old Royal Navy swimming pool described as ...

HMS Ganges by Market Harborough Royal British Legion. ... and then back to the annexe where we had to sew our name tags on every bit of kit. Five weeks of sewing, squad drill, ...

A historic Grade II listed former Royal Navy training mast has been taken down ahead of restoration work. HMS Ganges in Shotley Gate, Suffolk, was a land-based training centre for recruits between ...

The servicemen joined the navy on August 24th 1964, at the age of 15, spending the first year of their naval careers at the Shotley base. During its history, HMS Ganges saw more than 160,000 ...

HMS Ganges was the boys’ Training Ship on the Suffolk coast, a harsh place to be when you are only 15, and have never been away from home before. It seemed to be alive with RPOs (Crushers as ...

Five royal navy veterans will return to HMS Ganges six decades after starting their training at the base. The servicemen joined the navy on August 24th 1964, at the age of 15, spending the first ...