Take a trip through life at the HMS Conway training school as Old Conways share memories.
your comments
Phil Ford, Exeter
I`m sure I can remember the hulk aground in the Straits even after she caught alight. When we used to visit Nain's for our summer holiday we`d see it as you came across Menai Bridge. Can anyone put me right? I`m thinking about 1956+.
Mon Aug 17 12:03:47 2009
Glynne Parry (Perth W.Aust)
As a boy, I passed the Conway each day going to the Grammar School at Beaumaris. When she was moved to Plas Newydd, my father used to pass her quite often in our small rowing boat. In my teens, I boxed on the Conway and got my nose broken for my pains. In the early 50s a good friend of mine, Trevor Strange, was given a scholarship to go to the Conway. Shortly after he left, he was sadly killed on a Clan Line tanker in Glasgow. I was in the RAF for my National Service when I was told that the grand old lady had ended up with a broken back on the shore of the Menai Strait. A tragic end. I later joined the Royal Navy, and visited the Victory, a sister ship of the Conway, which brought back many memories.
Mon Aug 10 09:42:26 2009
Graham Vine - Woking
When HMS Conway arrived in the Menai Strait, she remained at her mooring for the whole period of the Second World War at a point near the Anglesey shore between the Gazelle Hotel and the Bishop's Palace at Glyn-y-Garth, opposite the sea bathing pool on the Bangor shore. I recall her being right in front of my bedroom window on the top floor of 14 Menai View Terrace with all the moored Catalina flying boats in line astern from her towards Beaumaris. So when was she moved from here to Plas Newydd?
Mon Jun 22 10:53:29 2009
Brian Lloyd, Saskatoon, Canada
I was a cadet aboard HMS Conway in 1951 and 1952. During that time, I think probably in 52, the BBC were doing a TV programme on North Wales and included a visit to the ship. As part of the programme cadets were sent aloft on the main mast. Pictures appeared of these young men climbing the rigging which probably impressed the viewers. What impressed most of us was the BBC cameraman, who was invisible to the viewers, also climbing around the mast and rigging and, at the same time carrying and using a large TV camera.
Tue Apr 14 09:40:07 2009
