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Royal Navy review 1977 (queen's silver jubilee)

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Royal Navy review 1977 (queen's silver jubilee)

Post by andygolfer » Wed Aug 16, 2017 7:56 pm

I've been scanning more of my late fathers slides over the last week or three and found these he took of the Royal Navy ships gathered for the Queen's royal review of the royal navy in June 1977, all part of the celebrations. A bit appropriate to be posting these today as her namesake the new aircraft carrier arrived in Portsmouth today 40 years on from this event. It wouldn't take very long to review the navy nowadays, all those lines of ships are a thing of the past now.
I've no idea of which ships they are apart from the ones with the flat tops are aircraft carriers - note the plural, we had several then!
And I don't know how he managed to be there but he appears to have been on the water, I assume there were boat trips going on once the formal review finished so that the public could view our navy

here we go....
ImageQueens silver jubilee review of Royal Navy june 1977 1 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

ImageQueens silver jubilee review of Royal Navy june 1977 2 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

ImageQueens silver jubilee review of Royal Navy june 1977 3 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

ImageQueens silver jubilee review of Royal Navy june 1977 4 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

ImageQueens silver jubilee review of Royal Navy june 1977 5 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

i only found these 5 but many more boxes to go through - all I need is time! Hopefully I may find some more, I can't imagine these are all he took as he was as keen on photography as I am but didn't have the luxury of digital all those years ago.

hope they are of interest, it's something a bit different!

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Re: Royal Navy review 1977 (queen's silver jubilee)

Post by Nighthawke » Wed Aug 16, 2017 9:05 pm

Great find Andy and very interesting to see after 40 years. I Googled to see what I could find on which ships took part. If you are interested, this gives an indication of what was involved. I can only imagine what it looked like!

http://www.dieselweasel.co.uk/Spithead.html

Other pages are available but this was the first I noticed - plenty of photographs.

Hope you find more. Never really been into ships much due to lack of possible sightings but would have loved to see the Spithead review.

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Re: Royal Navy review 1977 (queen's silver jubilee)

Post by andygolfer » Wed Aug 16, 2017 9:27 pm

that's amazing thanks. I doubt we could raise 1/10th of that number now. could almost row past our navy for an inspection these days.
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Re: Royal Navy review 1977 (queen's silver jubilee)

Post by Nighthawke » Wed Aug 16, 2017 9:37 pm

:lol: - but also - :cry: !

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