Dartmouth To The Fleet (1988)

British government official film uploaded as "fair use."
'Dartmouth to the Fleet' is a 1988 documentary produced for the Royal Navy by the Central Office of Information (COI 1110). It is a recruitment film that shows the training role of Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC) and the qualities it develops in the officers that it graduates.

[@mohammedalsharif8109]

I’m a commodore now, I graduated from Dartmouth in July 1988 , I was inboard HMS Bristol for DTS , some of the faces at the video are familiar to me , the officer in training in video Sub Lt. Steve Copper was in the same Division I was (St. Vincent ),. Thanks allot with much appreciation for posting this video which brought nice memories to me in this age.

[@fuinaguerra1]

Excellent documentary. I am of the Navy of Brazil and work of Fragata Rademaker which was acquired the former Navy HMS Battleaxe ( F89 ) . Seeing the images of to get a sense of the related activities.

[@UncleBoratagain]

8:00 so great to see such respect, kindness and generosity, I lay a bet that 98% of graduates from this course made great parents.

[@simonsaysjapan]

Thanks for posting this. This was my BRNC class on DTS with HMS Fife and in BRNC itself. I later went to another Type 22 (HMS Battleaxe) for fleet board.

[@townman1]

Good old Dartmouth graduated in 1981 .........best military college in the world.

[@sulaimanalmufargi9705]

WOW graduated from BRNC 1988 I was in Hawlk Division it was nice memories , some faces of this video quite familiar those in HMS Bristol . I would like to visit BRNC again during my next visit to UK late this summer

[@MarketScoop]

Yes, big lol... "This is HQ1. The fire is out, therefore, end of exercise...end of exercise. Return and stow all gear. (phew!) There will be a debrief in the Junior Rates Dinning Hall in one-five minutes time. That is all." Great stuff, permanently etched from the early 90s (Brave)

[@jackfrost2288]

God Bless the Queen, America here. Army OCS 1966 thru 1969

[@hoennnoodle]

"mixed results" looks like your average Naval ROTC here in the US

[@louisgunn]

fire is out, carry on painting and polishing the brightwork

[@backrun1]

Hahahah I passed out of Dartmouth in 1977 nothing changes lolol wonder what its like today!!!!

[@Jeffybonbon]

at least you had a Navy with ships in 1977 Today its much much smaller

[@markgoodship3273]

Recognise some great characters, Lazy Lobb for one

[@888ssss]

high house prices to the fleet.

[@jackmchammocklashing224]

I do not know if I was good or bad I was Rating In Charge of communications on a Major warship I was assigned two middies in the dog watches, I got mine to use the equipment UNCLASSIFIED to take direction finding DUDHUF or watching the teletype broadcast My Oppo (opposite number) used his middies to scrup the office floor and toilet block I never crossed paths again with any of my middies now LT's so have no feed back on how bad OR good I was to them

[@TheCodbutt]

It's a nice day for some white webbing...at 2:00. God how I got fed up of hearing that one when on Charlies.

[@Backrun]

haha i left dartmouth in 76 lol

[@chrisryan4277]

Jammyburger lol

[@Jeffybonbon]

IN the future we will see Tri service officer training

[@Joe-fe4xi]

dislexic landlord No we won’t

[@Jeffybonbon]

You and I may not want it but it will happen because of defence cuts in the coming years

[@Joe-fe4xi]

dislexic landlord Defence cuts aren’t going to go any further; if anything spending is going to increase

[@Jeffybonbon]

I think NHS and other things like HS2 will have the money the MOD will be second at best Have you seen the number of Regimental Bands that have been cut who would have ever thought the PARAs would have no Band every thing is going tri service its just the way of the UK today

[@pauldg837]

That would never work as they require 3 completely different skills, and what you suggest will just never ever happen.