Narooma Division

of the Royal Volunteer Coastal Patrol                    JUNE 2007    

DIARY  Training at the base  -   on a wet Saturday 16 June 2007

Wednesday 20 June  2007    Main Street Raffle  Ian Scott

Wednesday 27 June  2007    Main Street Raffle  Brian and Shirley Gunter

Wednesday 4 July  2007    Base Meeting at 1300 hours

Wednesday 4 July  2007    Main Street Raffle  Dick Rosewarne & Veronica McQueen

Wednesday 11 July  2007    Main Street Raffle  Dick Rosewarne & Veronica McQueen

Wednesday 18 July  2007    Main Street Raffle  Bob Cox & Carol Kelly

Wednesday 25 July  2007    Main Street Raffle  Ian Scott

Esmeralda  is a steel-hulled four-masted barquentine tall ship of the Chilean Navy and currently the second tallest and longest sailing ship in the world.   The ship is the sixth to carry the name Esmeralda. 

The first was frigate Esmeralda captured from the Spanish by Admiral Cochrane of the Chilean Navy. 

Admiral Cochrane had been a great British naval hero but got involved in stock exchange fraud conspiracy in the UK and left in disgrace in 1818, responding to a request from Chile to command the Chilean Navy in it's war of independence against Spain.

Cochrane was later reinstated as Admiral in the Royal Navy and the British are held in high regard in Chile. 

  Here be historic pictures       `

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