Find out about our forthcoming events here. Meetings are normally held at the Royal Maritime Club, Queen Street, Portsmouth, PO1 3HS, at 2.00 PM on the second Saturday of the month (January to May and October to December). Lunch is available in the bar from 12.30.
Additionally, the society organises day trips and a multi-day excursion during the summer break.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 14 February | Cheryl Jewitt: The Triangle Girls and Derek Nudd: Pirates (Peter Webberley memorial) |
| 14 March | Admiral Sir Jonathon Band GCB DL : First Sea Lording and Mark Brady: The Losses of HMS Eden (1916) and HMS Curacoa (1942) |
| 11 April (Doreen Hobbs Memorial) | Brian Lavery: The View from the Gunroom – Midshipmen’s Journals in Two World Wars and Matthew Heaslip: Strategic Leisure – Sun, Sea, Sand and Spies |
| 9 May | Paul Chamberlain: Villeneuve: The Inconvenient Admiral and Richard Blake: The impact of Admiral Lord Barham |
| 20-21 May | Overnight trip to Chatham in association with the Society of Model Shipwrights |
| 13 June | Mark Barton: Fanning the Coals and Forging the Weapons: A History of the Engineering Branch of the Royal Navy since its establishment in 1837 and Douglas Denny: HTP Submarines |
| 9 July | ‘Social Lunch’ – we get together for a meal and a chat |
| August | Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Trust tour (date TBC) |
| 29 September-1 October | Trip to Poole and Fleet Air Arm Museum (details to be confirmed) |
| 10 October | David Verghese: X-Craft midget submarines and Nick Hawkins: The German Navies 1945 -1956 |
| 14 November | AGM and Richard Blake: Sugar, slavery, sacrifice – and oblivion: the Royal Navy and the Slave Trade |
| 12 December | Mary Montagu-Scott: HMS Agamemnon – Navigating the Legend and David Verghese: “Marmalade & Bishop” – the Royal Naval victorious Op. of 25 August 1941 |
| 2027 | Programme under development |
Time permitting, the main event is followed by a short talk by one of our members on a subject close to their heart. We have a number of fascinating snippets lined up for the coming months. Alternatively, if there is a topic you would like explored, why not put it on the agenda?
See the News page on this site for a record of recent meetings.