Royal Marine Cadets

Who we are

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Do you thrive on a challenge?

Pride yourself on your teamwork abilities?

Always striving to improve yourself?

Then -  Portrush Sea Cadets - (we call the Unit a Training Ship) T.S. DUKE OF YORK - Royal Marines Cadets Detachment could be for you!

Fieldcraft, map reading, drill, weapons training are all included in the teaching and instruction.

The Unit offers exciting opportunities to take part in challenging exercises throughout the United Kingdom and abroad.

Portrush Sea Cadets - Royal Marines Cadets take part in canoeing and boat-work, both in-shore and off-shore power and sail. The Corps follows the British Canoe Unit (BCU) and Royal Yachting Association (RYA) training schemes. Waterborne activity is conducted on rivers (River Bann, Coleraine), lakes (Lough Neagh, Antrim), Portrush Harbour and reservoirs, also - around the coastline of the United Kingdom.

Royal Marines Cadets (RMC) of Portrush Sea Cadets, T.S. DUKE OF YORK, is part of the Sea Cadet Corps.

Operating as a Detachment based in Portrush, there are 116 other RMC detachments throughout the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, Malta and the Falkland Islands.

To join our Detachment, you need to be 13, you can stay till you reach 18, at which point you can think about whether you might want to become a adult volunteer. You can then teach what you have learnt, to the cadtes coming up through the ranks.

The Unit fosters teamwork, nurtures talent, enhancing leadership capability and acting with pace, pride and passion YOU will become a teamperson, wishing and wanting to achieve more

Find out more about our history

Find out more about what we do

The operational head of the RMC is the Staff Royal Marines Officer (SRMO), who is a serving Colour Sergeant on secondment to the Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) from the Royal Marines. He is responsible for overseeing the running of the RMC and reporting to Captain Sea Cadets (CSC). He is also responsible for conducting the annual SRMO field assessment which all detachments must participate in.

The SRMO is assisted by the Royal Marines Cadets Staff Officer (RMCSO) and Corps Regimental Sergeant Major (Corps RSM), who is the senior WO1 in the Corps.

The training Portrush Royal Marines Cadets offer, is transferable to your place of work or education.

 

It’s about discipline, about taking with you - our ethos and Corps values, applying them to everyday life with courage, determination and humility.

 

Doing everything with a sense of humour and a smile or two along the way!

 

DO COME AND JOIN US:

ROYAL MARINES CADETS  (13 to 18 years)

The Detachment meets every

MONDAY and THURSDAY

Commencing:      1900       Finishing:      2130

The Unit building is situated between Portrush Medical Centre & The Royal British Legion - Portrush Branch

16 DUNLUCE AVENUE

PORTRUSH

COUNTY  ANTRIM

NORTHERN IRELAND  

BT56 8DW

Should you wish more information before coming along

TELEPHONE:

028  708  25  999

If there is no one in attendance when you call, there is an automatic answering facility, leave a clear message - with your name, age and return telephone number - please speak clearly and slowly, someone will return your call as soon as possible.

E-MAIL:

Forward your details by e-mail, to:

portrushseacadets@btconnect.com

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