HERBERT LOTT's GRAVE. Please read HERBERT LOTT APPEAL Re-written and updated on 24th August 2006

An invitation to attend Lord Nelson's funeral in January 1806. See the Ceremonial Funeral of Lord Mountbatten for more details.
 
 

HELLO AND A VERY WARM WELCOME TO MY SITE. THERE IS MUCH TO SEE!

                                                         my naval take home pay in July 1976 as a FCPO {WO}  was £293-01  
    more reliable than

A fully independent site designed and  created by Godfrey Dykes © Powered by electricity!  FOR NAVY THINGS FOR NON NAVY THINGS This is my HOME page so have a good look before going off to view the main pages. Here you will find  links to other sites, a bit about the author, feature articles on NAVAL SUBJECTS, the BBC interface panel and much more. This site is best viewed with a screen set to 1024 x 768 pixels, then TIP - Select View on the menu bar and then FULL SCREEN. To get back, simply click on the double square symbol top right.  Oh! Just in case, it would be prudent to read this first. It is to do with 508 Standards. CLICK HERE. 

You've heard of him but do you know who he is? If you do, you know something few others do! His name is HERBERT LOTT, a man ALL OF US should know. Now, for the first time, his story has been researched and recorded. Go to 'navy things', smaller features, and scroll to the Herbert Lott Naval Trust Fund.                    text out of synch with picture? Click your refresh button.

 

To views these movies you must have a Flash Player. Go here

  

I am proud to tell you that this site has been accepted to host a BBC package function so you can listen to BBC radio, read the News [ UK and International] view video clips and follow trends in technology too, without leaving the site.  Look below my photograph to the right. Look also at the MOD ORACLE for current details of Armed Service matters including current pay levels. Top of range RN WO in nuclear submarines with all allowances = £50,000.00 pa!\

 

As you will know, photographs take up a great deal of space, and therefore I keep mine on a separate site.  The link below will take you to two separate albums, one NAVAL and one FAMILY/House and Garden.  Please browse there at your leisure. However, I do show some very old NAVY photographs in an album which can be found here SciFi Themeset Currently 155 pictures.

Now has 353 photographs

Don your life-jacket and climb [Click] onboard my private yacht and I will take you there. When you get there, click on PICTURES in the menu bar.

DO YOU BELONG TO A NAVAL {Mercantile or Royal} "TON-UP" FAMILY where collectively, the members have at least 100 years service? CLICK Here OTHER SAILORS IN THE FAMILY  to see our  132¾ years of service. 


 Countries and Places I have visited since 1953


SUBMARINER VC HOLDERS.
[A SAD STORY!]

At this time of uncertainty, a little poem for you to read

Sending emails?  Why not use this Royal Navy device? Click the picture for details.

postcard.jpg (44803 bytes)

BROADBAND USER? ARE YOU PAYING FOR SLOWER SPEEDS THAN YOU THOUGHT YOU WOULD GET?  USB versus ETHERNET!

Above  you will see a  calendar!  IT IS A MULTI-YEAR LONGCAST PLANNER, and therefore many yearly calendars rolled into one.

If you don't see it you need to ENABLE your internet options. The object is created using a ACTIVE X CONTROL.
From your desktop click on your Internet Explorer icon, choose TOOLS then Internet Options. Choose SECURITY,     check on Internet Zone and on Customer Level.  Under Active X Controls and plug-ins, choose "Run active x controls and plug-ins" ENABLE - Under "Script active x controls marked safe for scripting"  ENABLE. Click OK and EXIT.

over 7150 files in many tens of pages with over 6300  jpg's and totalling 1 GB in site size - enormous by any standard !!


 go on!  Have a peep: not here on the submarine captain but at the website as a whole.

Click on Ensign for
RN web site.

 Friends of the Royal Navy 
Net Ring Hosted by Godfrey [Jeff] Dykes		 Click on submarine
for 'Sub Museum
web site.
Previous | List | Random | Join | Statistics | Next    
 

 

In business and in private I am known as Godfrey.  To my ex navy colleagues I am known as Jeff or Geoff. Click here to find out about the picture. This is a picture of my better-half who has experienced most of my naval life with me Dsc00512.jpg (61901 bytes) As you navigate through, you will find a little bit  about my family, and a great deal about the Royal Navy.
Occasionally, I will add articles of interest on the Royal family which will be published in Navy Things - Bits and Pieces.

Access can be gained to two photograph albums -1 Navy and 1 Private - which I will up date periodically

 

   
WELCOME to my BBC Page . You can get news, sport, weather, on this day [try entering 5 September GO] and Radio [BBC online news]. When you click on the BBC dialogue box it opens a new window - to get my site to the fore - simply click the 'x' on the BBC page. Remember you only have one sound player so you  MIGHT  have to do manual change overs although it should be automatic - follow prompts - and use your refresh button when necessary.  Look also to the Task Bar [on the bottom of your screen] for icons relating to sound, my pages and BBC pages - use them as necessary. It all works very well especially when you use the minimise and maximise button also.

One of my chief interests is in Astronomy and I am a member of NASA. I track [by software] all aspects of the Space Programme, and heavenly bodies. I also design and build micro miniature radio frequency devices. Using many sophisticated radio spectrum analyzers I also monitor the radio frequency environment of satellites and near space.      If you are interested in ASTRONOMY or anything to do with SATELLITES per se, click here for JTD.  Go to the right hand box and enter in today's date [yyyy-mm-dd] and press convert. http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/Tools/DateConv/dateconv.pl

Click Ensign to see RN web sites/links to British small wars Click Union Jack for the Royal Family web site  Click on Nelson's famous signal
at Trafalgar
for the
National
Maritime Museum

                  Why not visit the BBC web site.  In particular have a look at http://www.bbc.co.uk/onthisday. Enter the date 5 September then click on GO.   Once there, click on WITNESS and read the associated text - by the way, not my typing because it has mistakes.  Then click on "On this day - 5th September 1979 {to the right of my two pictures}  and then 'Play Video'. The BBC regrets the quality of the video which has been compressed so that 56k modems can view it as well as broadband users.   The site covers every major news story over the past 50 years and will eventually be broadband in quality!

DO YOU KNOW ALL THE WORDS TO RULE BRITANNIA?
JUST IN CASE YOU NEED THEM HAVE A LOOK  AT THIS  SITE
 http://ingeb.org/songs/rulebrit.html

Is you computer clock showing the correct time.  Use the following facility DIRECT from Greenwich to do a TIME/DATE STAMP which will highlight any error you have.

GMT timestamp