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The worshipful Company of Horner’s welcomes HMS Agamemnon.

“Representatives from HMS AGAMEMNON including the CO, Cdr Crosby travelled to London to celebrate the new affiliation with the Worshipful Company of Horner’s at their annual Banquet. The event was held in at Mansion House in central London, where AGMN ships company met guild members and other affiliations including ships staff from HMS Puncher. As part of the event Cdr Crosby signed the Memorandum of Understanding with the Horners, which marks the start of an affiliation for the life of

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Possible Norwegian discovery of HMS Thistle

At 170 metres deep, Norwegian researchers stumbled over a historic find Kyrre Heldal Kartveit is a researcher at the Institute of Marine Research. He is working hard to map the seabed. He can spend hours looking at seabeds, mud and shrimp.                                                                               

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The Worshipful Company of Loriners Affiliation with HMS Agamemnon

Following on from yesterday’s report the Master Colin Gurley, and the IPM Chris Walton arrived safely in Barrow-in-Furness to visit the home of BAE Systems where three of the Royal Navy’s latest nuclear submarines are currently in varying stages of being built. We are pleased to announce that the Loriners has agreed an affiliation with the first of these – HMS AGAMEMNON – a nuclear strike submarine, which is due to launch early next year. A very warm welcome was

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BAE Submarines Academy Apprenticeships

With over 48 schemes and 700+ roles available in 2024, it’s time to take a look at our state of the art Submarines Academy for Skills and Knowledge in Barrow-in-Furness. We are OPEN 1st and 2nd November 2023, to talk all things Early Careers. From Caulker to Commercial, Fitter to Finance, Data Analyst to Designer, the options at BAE Systems may surprise you… Not a school leaver? Don’t worry, our apprenticeships are for any age. And we cover those with GCSEs up

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Kings Award designs revealed

Awards with His Majesty The King’s image in use from the beginning of October. The new designs are presented on almost 50 different awards. Images bear the inscription Charles the Third, by the Grace of God, King, Defender of the Faith. The images – known as effigies – will be used for almost 50 awards, including The King’s Gallantry Medal, the Royal Red Cross and a range of long service awards. The new images will replace previous designs which featured

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Thousands of veterans cards to be rolled

Thousands more veterans will receive HM Armed Forces Veteran Cards by the end of the year thanks to a £3 million injection to expand the roll-out to veterans who left service before 2018. Veterans’ Minister Johnny Mercer has visited a MOD printing facility at HMS Sultan in Gosport Government has invested £3m to scale up production of HM Armed Forces Veteran Cards to 50,000 cards a month Thousands of veterans will be able to apply for an ID card this

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