Ship's Log 2007 click here for previous years' Ship's Logs
 

9th December - District Drill & Piping Competition
Leicester unit hosted this years District Drill & Piping competition and welcomed teams from TS Amazon (Hinckley), TS Pytchley (Kettering), TS Tiger (Leicester), TS Venomous (Loughborough) & TS Laforey (Northampton).

The winners were

• Colour Party - TS Amazon
• Armed Guard - TS Laforey
• Team Piping - TS Laforey
• Individual Piping - TS Laforey with the runner up TS Tiger

All of the above now go onto the Area competition. Congratulations & well done to all who took part and a special well done to AC Liam Scott from TS Tiger .

4th December - Unit Advancements
OC Crutchley - 1st Year Good Conduct Stripe
AC Scott - 3rd Year Good Conduct Stripe
JSC2 Tomlinson - Activities Badge
JSC2 Rushin - Activities Badge
JSC2 Lloyd-McLear - Activities Badge
***Congratulations & Well Done***

2nd December - Area 5-a-side football at St Ives
The Senior Girls football team travelled to St Ives in Cambridgeshire for the Area 5 A Side Competition.

The team was made up of Leading Cadet Ruth Rollings (Team Captain), Leading Cadet Lindsey Fitzpatrick, Cadet Sam Clayton, Cadet Jodie Randall, New Entry Ferys Warren and New Entry Jazmyn Crewe.

The girls made their way through their heats winning all their games only conceding a single goal.  Then it was onto the semi final where a chink in their defence appeared when Lowestoft & Norwich scored the first goal.  Leicester then picked themselves up and scored twice to win the game.  The only downside was Leading Cadet Fitzpatrick sustaining a dislocated thumb.(ouch!)

It was then onto the final where they met Hull and Filey of North & East Yorkshire, a team they had beaten 2 – 0 in the heats. 
This game saw Leicester go up a gear with a winning score of 5 – 1!

With this victory the girls won the Area Competition, having scored 16 goals and conceding 3.  They are now through to the National Competition which is due to be held on 22-24 February 2008 at HMS Collingwood, Portsmouth.

GO TIGERRRRRRR!

Linz said after the match

" It was a really good day, we had put so much time and effort into training and by doing this we came out very successful winning all of our matches and winning the final 5-1".

Well done to all the team and many thanks to the coach (and chauffeur) PO Allan Stoneman.

20th November - Presentation Evening
TS Tiger opened it's doors to welcome friends, supporters and invited guests to an evening of awards and presentations.

The evening started with Colours Ceremony and an inspection of the Cadets by Cdr S Watt RN along with The Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire, The Lady Gretton JP who was accompanied by the District Officer Lt Cdr (SCC) Paul Perry RNR. A presentation about the activities the Cadets can take part in was given by Cdt C Stoneman and Leading Junior Cdt O Flower had put together a film of photographs showing what the juniors can do and some of the places they have visited this year. This was followed by the yearly presentation of awards & trophies.

Congratulations go to the following cadets who were awarded trophies:

• Best Overall Cadet - LC Fitzpatrick
• Best Male Cadet - OC Crutchley
• Best Female Cadet - A joint award this year to LC Fitzpatrick and LC Rollings.R
• Best Junior Cadet - Another joint award this year to LJC Flower and JSC Western
• Personal Achievement Award - Cdt Prior
• Best Dressed Cadet - AC Scott.L

LC Rollings was also given a gift by the UMC in appreciation of her contribution towards fundraising.

This year saw the inauguration of a new award, The TS Tiger Chairman's Award. This will be presented by the chairman to any person connected with the unit who has shown a dedication beyond that which is normally expected.

This year the award went to PO Barry Robinson in recognition of the many weekends of work he has put into the boats this past year. In particular the refurbishment of Fearless in time for our 70th anniversary celebrations but also for his ongoing work with the other boats so that we can get more Cadets on the water.

Pictures courtesy of & © K Hall, 'e' school portraits click to visit the website

11th November - Remembrance Day Parades
Cadets and Staff attended the Remembrance Day Parades in Wigston during the morning and then in Oadby during the afternoon.

A big thank you to Terry Burton of Wigston Royal British Legion for the photos.

10th November - Leicester City Remembrance Day Match

Cadets took part in the annual Veterans Parade around the city ground at half time at the special Remembrance Day Football Fixture which is now in its fifth season. This year the Club will also be giving to the Poppy Appeal fund themselves by committing to a £2 donation for every match ticket sold to Senior Citizens and any acting or ex servicemen and women attending the match.

The Championship clash against Burnley also saw both sides wearing specially modified 'poppy shirts'.

8th November - Unit Advancements
Cdt Clayton.S - Musician, Grade 4 Clarinet
* * * Congratulations & Well Done * * *

4th November - LOROS Fireworks Display at Mallory Park.

Cadets from TS Tiger were asked to assist with marshalling at this years' event.

This is the first time the Cadets have been car park marshalls and so, resplendent in their new reflective jackets, they all gave it their best.

Following the evenings entertainment members of the public passed some very positive comments as they left so well done to all.

3rd November - Festival of Remembrance
Staff and Cadets attended De Montfort Hall to take part in the Festival of Remembrance. This is the Royal British Legion's annual Festival to remember those who have made the supreme sacrifice for their country and those who are fighting for peace in the world today. They were this year entertained by The Syd Lawrence Orchestra.
PO Derbyshire was said to be especially looking forward to this year's entertainments.

30th October - Lord-Lieutenant's Cadet Investiture
Leading Cadet L.Smith attended the investiture ceremony which was held at County Hall in Leicester where LC Smith was thanked for his support during the past year by The Lord Lieutenant, Lady Gretton JP and was presented with a certificate.

The picture shows him with The Lord Lieutenant and the incoming Cadet from Hinckley SCC, TS Amazon.

27th October - Halloween Quiz Night
A brilliant Halloween themed Family Quiz night saw some very strange people wandering around!

Congratulations to The Wiggo Mob, our winning adult's team and to Spooky Duo our winning Junior's Quiz team.

A big thank you to all who came, glad you could make it / find us

20th October - Royal Naval Assoc Trafalgar Dinner
The Commanding Officer of TS Tiger, Lt(SCC) D.Derbyshire RNR and his wife PO(SCC) K.Derbyshire along with the Vice Chairman Mr A.Hadland & his wife Jill were invited to the annual RNA Trafalgar Dinner.

The picture on the left shows Able Cadet Liam Scott delivering the Queens Letter to the President of the Wigston RNA, Vice Admiral Sir David Dobson KBE.

And below with the Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire, The Lady Gretton JP.

14th - 19th October - Cadets' Raleigh training week
14 Cadets along with 4 members of staff went on their annual training week to the National Sea Cadet Training Centre at HMS Raleigh.

Tom Crutchley
"Raleigh was cool and guess what?
we got another ships visit!
my second and last year as a cadet !
it was goooooooood"!

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14th October - A Very Busy Sunday.
Whilst the majority of the cadets and 4 staff were sitting comfortably in their minibus on the way to HMS Raleigh and with the Lord Lieutenant's cadet singing away in church at a community service of faith & diversity in Loughborough, the new entrys and juniors along with staff, parents and umc were preparing the water stations for the runners in this year's Leicester Marathon.

Meanwhile further along the marathon course
PO Robinson along with his assistants were ready on the water providing safety boat cover. It turned out to be a glorious sunny day with around 2000 runners passing through the water stations.

Well done to all the first timers and hope you will join us next year.

Clearing up the cups, why do they carry them so far?

9th October - Unit Advancements
AC Rollings.Ruth - Advancement to Leading Cadet (LC)
* * * Congratulations & Well Done * * *

30th September District 5-A-Side Football

Two teams from TS Tiger travelled to Bramcote Barracks to take part in the district 5-A-Side football. Well done to both teams and congratulations to the girls who go through to the Area 5-A-Side which is in December.

The Girls Team, seen above in action and to the left receiving the Trophy and winners medals from the District Officer Lt Cdr Perry

9th September - Fun Day at ARH
The Cornerstone Church sponsored a free fun day held at Alderman Richard Hallam primary school. Leicester Sea Cadets were invited along to recruit and inform people in the local community about the activities available at TS Tiger.

8th September - Formal Mess Dinner
In celebration of 70 years of Leicester Sea Cadets a Mess Dinner was organised by our Mess President Kim Marshal-Nichols.
Among the guests were old friends of the unit along with officers and friends from other units in our district. Our guest speaker for the evening was Commander Stuart Watt RN accompanied by his wife.
A raffle was held during the evening with prizes donated by local businesses.

Also at the dinner was PO Lorraine Stoneman who was celebrating her **th birthday. Lorraine was presented with a bottle of bubbly whilst we all sang a wonderful rendition of Happy Birthday.

8th September - Anstey Gala
Cadets were invited to perform their musical arms display for the final time this year. Committee took the fund raising and recruiting marquee and a good day was had by all.

4th September Unit Advancements
Cdt Clayton - Competent Crew
New Entry Rees - Advancement to Cadet (Cdt)

4th September - TS Tiger Annual General Meeting
The Annual General Meeting was held in the ward room, committee elected for the coming year:
Chairman/Secretary - Mrs M. Smith
Vice Chair - Mr A. Hadland
Treasurer - Mrs K Beynon

2nd September - Knighton Park Fun Day
Cadets from TS Tiger were invited along to the fun day organised by Leicester City Council
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12th August - The Cancer Research Race For Life
Cadets and Staff were once again happy to assist with marshalling duties at Race For Life. which took place on Western Park in Leicester. Fortunately the weather stayed nice to allow the races to go ahead after twice being postponed due to a waterlogged course.

Our Marshals for the day

Ray and Kev from Leicester Sound managed to get in a mention or two for us and our fluorescent 'Captain'

Below, Cadets in action on the course.

11th August - Lutterworth Carnival
Cadets from TS Tiger were invited to perform a musical arms display. Whilst there the UMC took along the fund raising & recruitment tent. The day started off with an excellent parade of floats themed around children's classic stories.

Thanks to all those who came along to chat with us
and congratulations to the 5 lucky winners in our
Play Your Cards Right game.

7th August - Unit Advancements
LC Fitzpatrick - 3rd Year Good Conduct Stripe
LC Trigg - 3rd Year Good Conduct Stripe
MC Western - Basic Shooting
OC Stoneman.K - 2nd year good conduct
Cdt Hall - 1st Year Good Conduct Stripe
New Entry Prior - Advancement to Cadet (Cdt)
* * * Congratulations & Well Done * * *

2nd August - Visit from PO J. Osborne ANC
Petty Officer John Osborne from the Australian Navy Cadets, TS Coral Sea, Queensland came along with his wife to visit TS Tiger during their stay in England. John and his wife were shown round the unit and they were thoroughly impressed with the cadets and staff.

For more information about the Australian Navy Cadets and TS Coral visit their website

3rd July - Unit Advancements
LC Fitzpatrick - BCU 2 Star
Cdt Stoneman.K - Basic Campcraft
Cdt Stoneman.N - Basic Campcraft
* * * Congratulations & Well Done * * *

16th June - 70th Anniversary Open Day Celebration
The Unit held an open day for ex-cadets, staff, parents and anyone else who wanted to come along. The day started with Colours and the official opening by one of our current cadets, AC Ruth Rollings and Mr Michael Mayes (an ex cadet from 1945-48). This was followed by a Musical Arms display after which the juniors performed a semaphore display welcoming everyone to TS Tiger.



There were on going displays and activities by the Marine Cadet Detachment and the rest of the Ship's Company.
There was also a display of old pictures for guests to look at and see if they could remember faces and rekindle old memories.

Just before the first of many torrential downpours our pulling boat 'Fearless' (which was originally used by the GNTC) was relaunched by Leading Cadet L. Fitzpatrick

After the day's events a disco was held to complete the day.

 Click here to see more pictures from the day. 

We are now looking to continue our celebrations with our formal Mess Dinner which takes place on September 8th 2007.

9th June - Juniors Unit Weekend
TS Rugrats, the junior division of TS Tiger went to Northampton Unit for a weekend of training & fun,

9th June - Unit Maintenance Day
A huge Thank You goes out to the parents, cadets and staff who came along to help out at our unit maintenance day. Together we achieved so much to help keep the unit shipshape.

Do you want to tell them or shall I?

5th June - Unit Advancements
New Entry Stoneman.N - Advancement to Cadet (Cdt) and 3rd Class Communications
New Entry Ledger - Advancement to Cadet (Cdt)
AC Fitzpatrick - Advancement to Leading Cadet (LC) and 3rd Class Communications
AC Trigg - Advancement to Leading Cadet (LC),
3rd Class Communications
and 3rd Class Marine Engineering
AC Rollings.Roy - Power Level 2
AC Rollings.Ruth - Power Level 1
OC Crutchley - Power Level 1
Cdt Stoneman.K - Power Level 1
Cdt Clayton - Offshore Power Hand Grade 1 and Level 2 Sailing
MNE Clayton - Offshore Power Hand Grade 1 and Level 2 Sailing
MNE Stoneman - Piping Proficiency
* * * Congratulations & Well Done * * *

2nd & 3rd June - Leicester Riverside Festival
Once again The Cadets & Staff of TS Tiger were on hand to provide safety boat cover for this event which is now in it's 10th year. At the event TS Tiger was presented with the Brewster Trophy in recognition of the service provided to the event by Leicester Sea cadets.

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Here the Cadets proudly show off the Trophy along with Anneka Brewster who presented the trophy

31st May -Informal Inspection
TS Tiger welcomed Commander C. Smith the newly appointed Eastern Area Commander as he undertook the annual inspection which this year took the form of an informal visit.

24th-25th May - HMS Quorn visit
Lt (SCC) D.Derbyshire RNR along with PO (SCC) B.Robinson and 8 cadets went down to Poole on Thursday evening ready to board HMS Quorn on Friday morning for the passage from Poole across to Portsmouth. All present had an enjoyable day, witnessing the different sections and information and of course the perfect weather conditions, which made it a day to remember.

Thanks go Quorn’s Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Commander Taylor and also to
S/Lt McGlone the liaison and escort officer, and of course, not forgetting the Officers and Crew, who presented the different departmental tasks, both practically and verbally. Also thanks to the remainder of the Crew for making those who attended very welcome on the day.

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20th May - District Pulling Regatta - 2007
Teams from Leicester (TS Tiger), Loughborough (TS Venomous) and Northampton (TS Laforey) took part in the District Pulling Regatta which took place at Northampton Unit.
Congratulations to Northampton's pulling teams who swept the board and now move on to the Area competition and well done to Leicester's male & female pulling teams for a good effort.

 This pic shows Leicester (in the darker boat) versus Northampton

Here we see Leicester's female pulling team (again in the darker boat )versus Loughborough

 TS Tiger's Pulling teams and their (very noisy) supporters

17th May - Mayor Making Ceremony
PO Derbyshire along with 4 Cadets from TS Tiger attended the ceremony to welcome in the new Mayor of Leicester, The Right Worshipful the Lord Mayor Councilor Gary Hunt. TS Tiger would like to wish him every success for the forthcoming year.
Also at the event (and much to PO's delight ) was Leicester's own Englebert Humperdink.

12th May - Family Quiz Night
Well done to the Cheeky Monkeys and to Ratboy who were the winners of the adult's and the under 18's quiz.

Commiserations to the rest of my team who were pipped by one, yes one, point (I said it was the unfinished symphony but would they listen oooh noo!)

A good evening was had by all.
A big thank-you goes out to the staff for helping to keep the quiz nights going and particularly to Kim in the Galley for her excellent food and Barry for keeping the liquid refreshments flowing.

NAME         RATE     UNIT           QUALIFICATION
Stoneman N   Cdt      Leicester      3rd class Communications
Trigg  J     AC       Leicester       "    "        "
Fitzpatrick  AC       Leicester       "    "        "
Stoneman C   MNE      Leicester      Piping Proficiency
Rollings Roy  AC       Leicester      RYA LV1 Power
Stoneman K   OC       Leicester       "   "   "
Crutchley T  OC       Leicester       "   "   "
Docherty J   Cdt      Kettering      Piping Profiency
McCartin T   Cdt      Kettering        "        "
Spence S     Cdt      Kettering        "        "
Cassidy S    Cdt      Kettering      3rd Class Marine Eng
Causterson   MNE      Hinckley       3rd Class Seamanship
Davies       MNE      Hinckley       Pulling Experience
Fisher J     AC       Northampton       "         "
Grant Z      OC       Northampton    Pulling Supervised Cox`n
Williams     LC       Northampton       "        "        "

Many thanks to all Instructors that attended and we look forward to seeing you all again soon.
CPO (SCC) K Marshal-Nichols

17th April - Unit Advancements
New Entry Clayton.S - Advancement to Cadet (Cdt)
New Entry Clayton.B - Advancement to Marine Cadet (MC)
* * * Congratulations & Well Done * * *

3rd April - Unit visit by HMS Quorn's Sub Lieutenant.
Many thanks to Sub Lt Fergus McGlone (RN) from HMS Quorn who paid us a visit for our full blues parade night. Whilst he was there he spoke to the Cadets telling them about HMS Quorn and answered many questions he also took time to have a look around the unit.

Unit Advancements
AC Keightley - 3rd Class Marine Engineering
AC Rollings.Ruth - 3rd Year Good Conduct Stripe
AC Timms - 3rd Class Marine Engineering
AC Trigg - 3rd Class Marine Engineering
Cdt Crutchley - 3rd Class Seamanship and advancement to Ordinary Cadet (OC)
Cdt Stoneman.C - 3rd Class Marine Engineering
New Entry Stoneman.N - 3rd Class Seamanship
* * * Congratulations & Well Done * * *

31st March - Family Quiz Night Fundraiser
Many thanks to all those of you who attended this time around. We to raised £200 which will be put towards the costs of keeping TS Tiger afloat.

18th March - Freedom of the Borough Ceremony & Parade.


Cadets from TS Tiger and TS Venomous (Loughborough)
along with Army & Air Force Cadets took part in a parade and ceremony granting HMS Quorn the freedom of entry to the Borough of Melton.

The main picture shows the ship's company HMS Quorn on parade with colours flying, swords drawn and bayonets fixed. The other pictures are of the cadets from TS Tiger and TS Venomous in the parade  click here for more pictures & info 

10th - 11th March - Multi Training Weekend
A weekend of training and activities which the cadets thoroughly enjoyed. Subjects covered were Marine Engineering, Seamanship and Writer Stores, and it looks like every body passed ok. The Junior Cadets were taken on a visit to Snibston Discovery Park Thanks go to CI Howard and PO Derbyshire for that one.

6th March - Unit Advancements
JSC Flower - Advancement to Jnr Cdt 1st Class (J1C)
New Entry Carr - Advancement to Cadet (Cdt)
New Entry Caham - Advancement to Cadet (Cdt)
New Entry Coleman - Advancement to Cadet (Cdt)
Cdt Huzzar - Competent Crew
* * * Congratulations & Well Done * * *

10th February - Quiz Night
Thank you to all our regular supporters who attended our Valentines Quiz night.
This was our second family quiz night unfortunately there were only 2 under 18's teams

6th February - Unit Advancements
OC Scott - Advancement to Able Cadet (AC)
OC Rollings.Roy - Advancement to Able Cadet (AC)
Cdt Crutchley - Competent Crew
JSC Rollings.R - Advancement to Jnr Cdt 1st Class (J1C)
JSC Dean - Advancement to Jnr Cdt 1st Class (J1C)
* * * Congratulations & Well Done * * *