HMS Inskip
- Thread starter Hawkeye
- Start date
Kinky_Pillick
Midshipman
Inskip is still there. I regularly ride the roads past it. 3 main masts can be seen for miles at night.
I work with an ex inskip chief who turns 60 soon - initials JMPTC.
I also recently met a distant relative who served there in the 80's and still works there as a civ. Bob Emmington I think he's called.
KP
I work with an ex inskip chief who turns 60 soon - initials JMPTC.
I also recently met a distant relative who served there in the 80's and still works there as a civ. Bob Emmington I think he's called.
KP
SpliceTheMainbrace
Lantern Swinger
Been to HMS Inskip once, just remember lots of ariels sticking up from the ground.
Always_a_Civvy
ADC
SpliceTheMainbrace said:
No STB, you're getting confused with HMS Hedgehog! :twisted:
:lol:Potential_Officer
War Hero
Still there, though there is a golf course along some of it.
Did a cadet course there once, and it feels as though you are in the middle of nowhere!
Did a cadet course there once, and it feels as though you are in the middle of nowhere!
SpliceTheMainbrace
Lantern Swinger
Always_a_Civvy said:SpliceTheMainbrace said:
No STB, you're getting confused with HMS Hedgehog! :twisted:
Imagine that as a ship HMS Hedgehog. How the enemy would laugh.
HMS Duncan the new Type 45s though, doesn't sound as good at Dauntless and Daring now does it?
alacrity174
War Hero
HMS Inskip was my last draft in the Andrew and was a great place, was there 90-91 and remember Bob Emmington, not sure who JMPTC is though.
As I remember we were the only Ship/Establishment to have a JR's bar, bloody marvelous it was. :crash:
As I remember we were the only Ship/Establishment to have a JR's bar, bloody marvelous it was. :crash:
JamesH
Lantern Swinger
An article about HMS Nightjar appeared in the October 2005 edition of Vanguard - the magazine of RNA 10 Area.
Download a copy (1.1Mb .pdf)
Back copies may be available to download, please contact me or contact the Area Secretary for print copies. [email protected]
James
Download a copy (1.1Mb .pdf)
Back copies may be available to download, please contact me or contact the Area Secretary for print copies. [email protected]
James
Capn_Pugwash
War Hero
Inskip is now DCSA, run by VT.
It was an FAA airfield in WW2, and is now home to the Sea Cadet Training Centre INSKIP, (TS Nightjar) and a rather flat 9 hole golf course which floods every winter. Bloody difficult getting a good swing wearing a life jacket.
Its still like being on another planet.
A lot of the old and bold Chiefs who were there in 95 when it changed over to civvy stayed on to work for SERCO. They had an Ex Royal Sigs major as the RO2 Manager and an ex 2 1/2 eng as the Serco manager.
The last man to serve there on watch in the Control Room as RN now works for VT IN Cyprus. It took him months to get out of the habit of wearing his No8s to work, but he probably just did it to annoy the Hobbit.
It was an FAA airfield in WW2, and is now home to the Sea Cadet Training Centre INSKIP, (TS Nightjar) and a rather flat 9 hole golf course which floods every winter. Bloody difficult getting a good swing wearing a life jacket.
Its still like being on another planet.
A lot of the old and bold Chiefs who were there in 95 when it changed over to civvy stayed on to work for SERCO. They had an Ex Royal Sigs major as the RO2 Manager and an ex 2 1/2 eng as the Serco manager.
The last man to serve there on watch in the Control Room as RN now works for VT IN Cyprus. It took him months to get out of the habit of wearing his No8s to work, but he probably just did it to annoy the Hobbit.
