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

                                                         my naval take home pay in July 1980 as a FCPO {WO}  was £320-01  
 

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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.  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.                   

 

Look 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 plus!

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

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

over 7150 files in many tens of pages with over 6300  jpg's and totalling 3.5 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. A site which Flies The Flag for the Royal Navy Click on submarine for 'Sub Museum web site. Specialising in the telling of  stories not  found   on other Naval websites.

In business and in private I am known as Godfrey.  To my ex navy colleagues I am known as Jeff or Geoff. Click on this thumbnail

 to find out about the picture. This is a picture of my better-half who has experienced most of my naval life with me

 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.

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.

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

                  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