A NEWLY qualified naval airman has just set sail for the first time on HMS Price of Wales. Able Rate Cameron Fallows, from Grangetown, Middlesbrough is a former student at Eston Park School and Middlesbrough College. The 21-year-old said: I wanted to join the Royal Navy to travel the world and meet the people who will be my friends for life. The job will see them joining the £3.2bn aircraft carrier on an intense period of operational training, which will see the vast warship operating with the new F-35B stealth jet as well as helicopters from the Army and RAF.
A ROYAL Navy recruit from Cardigan has set sail on HMS Prince of Wales for the very first time. The 65,000-tonne leviathan is the second of the Royal Navy’s two Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers and the largest, most capable and powerful surface warship ever built for the Royal Navy. Explaining his reasons for signing up, Able Rate Evan Williams, a 20-year-old former student at Ysgol Uwchradd Aberteifi, said: “I wanted to travel the world and meet the people who will be my friends for life.” He joins the £3.2bn, 65,000-tonne aircraft carrier in an intense period of operational training, which will see the vast warship operating with the new F-35B stealth jet as well as helicopters from the Army and RAF.
Grangetown sailor joins UKâs biggest warship, HMS Prince of Wales
Cameron Fallows, 21, sets sail on the Royal Navyâs largest state-of-the-art aircraft carrier
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A local sailor has set sail on the UKâs largest warship.
21-year-old Cameron Fallows, Grangetown, has joined HMS Prince of Wales for his first time at sea.
Helston aircraft handlers have qualified from RNAS Culdrose and are now heading straight into service. A class of newly qualified aircraft handlers have walked straight from the training ground to the deck of HMS Queen Elizabeth – as the aircraft carrier prepares for her maiden deployment to the Far East. The 20 sailors celebrated the completion of their training at the Royal Naval School of Flight Deck Operations at RNAS Culdrose, Helston, on Wednesday, April 28. Six of these new aircraft handlers will immediately join the ship’s company of the carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth as she prepares to head off on her deployment to the Far East.
A ROYAL Navy sailor from Llandudno has completed his training to serve on warships and support ships around the world. Able Rate Ewan Williams qualified as a naval airman, an old job title which nowadays includes both men and women, and joined the navy’s Aircraft Handlers’ Branch. Naval airmen work on the flight decks of warships and support ships to allow flying operations and are specially training in firefighting and rescue.
A special ceremony was held at the Royal Naval School of Flight Deck Operations at RNAS Culdrose to mark the completion of training for 19 new sailors. Picture: Royal Navy