The following postings highlight some of the important recent postings to the various website pages. These postings include upcoming events, newsworthy events, the latest books on offer from the Society, photographs by WSS members, volunteer appointments and opportunities, obituaries, upcoming AGM information, branch activities, news about late publication of any of our publications as well as general news items.
Click on the various section titles to the left to access the pages. Or to make it easier to locate the correct page, many postings contain a direct link to the page containing the news. Click on the underlined key words shown below.
Latest Announcement postings
Jan 31, 2012 - PUBLICATIONS - WSS Books Available - Stocks of the new Shaw, Savill and Albion: A Fleet History have now arrived at our Chatham facility for immediate delivery.
Jan 23, 2012 - ANNOUNCEMENTS - Society News - More rooms now available at the RNLI College for those attending the 2012 AGM.
Jan 10, 2012 - ANNOUNCEMENTS - Publications - JANUARY'S MARINE NEWS. The January edition was dispatched from the printers on Tuesday January 10th to all members world-wide
Jan 9, 2012 - ANNOUNCEMENTS - Society News - a link to the Booking Form is now available for 2012 AGM in Poole, Dorset
Jan 4, 2012 - Do you have difficulty reading Marine News?If you have a sight problem that makes it difficult to read Marine News, and you are online with an e-mail address, we can now e-mail each issue to you so that you can download it and then increase the print size to suit yourself. Just send an e-mail to membershipsecretary@worldshipsociety.org including your name and membership number and each month's issue will be sent to you in this way (in addition to your printed copy).
Nov 30, 2011 - PUBLICATIONS - Marine News / WarshipsHighlights of issue 167 of our excellent Warships magazine are now posted
Nov 29, 2011 - ANNOUNCEMENTS - Obituaries - Southampton Branch reports the death of John Havers at the age of 91
Nov 25, 2011 - ANNOUNCEMENTS - Obituaries - We mark the passing of long time member Keith MacArthur of the Merseyside Branch
Nov 14, 2011 - ANNOUNCEMENTS - Society News - An index for Warships issues 101 to 165 is now available
Oct 31, 2011 - ANNOUNCEMENTS - Publications - OCTOBER’S MARINE NEWSUnfortunately there were serious delays in the production and dispatch of October’s issue of Marine News. Production was delayed a week when our printers suffered a major press breakdown. All copies were collected by Royal Mail on 13 October but as at the time of writing (5th December) it appears that many copies have still not been delivered to members. There appears to be no consistent pattern as to the areas concerned. Royal Mail is investigating.
The October issue is available immediately as a PDF file to any member who requests a copy. Send your request to membershipsecretary@worldshipsociety.org If your copy has still not arrived when you receive your December issue, please wait two weeks, then inform the Membership Secretary (John Williams) at the above e-address.
Oct 25, 2011 - ANNOUNCEMENTS - Society News - A date has been set for the 34th Annual Naval Meeting in Bristol
Oct 25, 2011 - BRANCHES - Rest of the World - Fremantle Branch celebrates its 30th Anniversay as a branch
Sep 23, 2011 - ANNOUNCEMENTS - Society News - It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Ian Wells' Mother, Winnie, on Sep 21, 2011
Sep 17, 2011 - PUBLICATIONS - Registers - details of all Starke/Schell registers now available as at September 2011
Sep 15, 2011 - ANNOUNCEMENTS - Publications - Ships of the East India Company, by Rowan Hackman, now available on CD.
Sep 15, 2011 - ANNOUNCEMENTS - Society News - We are now taking orders for the 2012 WSS Classic calendar
Aug 31, 2011 - ANNOUNCEMENTS - Society News - After many years as the Society's Slide Show Co-ordinator, Bryan Tedd steps down.
Aug 31, 2011 - OBITUARIES - We record the passing of long-time Southend Branch member, Len Kay.
Aug 11, 2011 - PUBLICATIONS - Orders now being taken for the 2010/2011 Lloyd's Registers. click here, then scroll to near the bottom of the postings.
Jul 7, 2011 - ANNOUNCEMENTS - Obituaries - reports on the passing of two Merseyside Branch members, Les Howard & Bob Bowden
July 7, 2011 - Changes are coming! - Marine News is to go digital January 2013. Click here for the details. Society News
June 25, 2011 - With immediate effect, the Mutual Interests programme has been temporarily suspended after the death of the Co-ordinator, Fred Kissack on June 23, 2011.
Jan 2, 2011 - IMAGES - Photo Album-JMF-01 - an interesting Photo Album has been created from over 120 images sent to us by Jim McFaul, showing just some of the interesting maritime events he covered in 2010.
Apr 18, 2009 - NAVAL AFFAIRS - Small Craft GroupReinforced Concrete Barges of World War II - A Working Paper. For a photo example of a concrete barge, go to the AGM 2010 section to the left.
Mar 26, 2009 - BRANCHES - Rest of the World - NSW Branch An interesting history of the NSW Branch by Alan Travers. Now we would like to see other branches create a potted history of their branch for posting on the website. Check out the NSW (Australia) Branch entry on the following page: - http://worldshipsociety.org/741.html
The following postings highlight some of the important recent postings to the various website pages. These postings include upcoming events, newsworthy events, the latest books on offer from the Society, photographs by WSS members, volunteer appointments and opportunities, obituaries, upcoming AGM information, branch activities, news about late publication of any of our publications as well as general news items.