Five royal navy veterans will return to HMS Ganges six decades after starting their training at the base. The servicemen joined the navy on August 24th 1964, at the age of 15, spending the first year ...

Restoration work on a historic Grade II listed former Royal Navy training mast should be completed by May, a museum trustee has said. HMS Ganges, in Shotley Gate, Suffolk, was a land-based training ...

For decades, HMS Ganges in Suffolk was the first taste of naval life for generations of Royal Navy recruits. But 40 years ago, on 6 June 1976, it was decided that the training base would close. In the ...

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