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Our Cadets Did Us Proud!

A really good turn out from our cadets taking part in the Southend Armed Forces Day Parade.

The Captain of the Sea Cadets, Captain Mark Windsor, presented Marine Cadet Hughes with the Indefatigable 1906 Shield at the London Area Conferance. This is a National Award for the Marine Cadet who has amounted the most Offshore Sailing points from all units nationwide.

Presentations at the units Annual Inspection

Tom Pocock receives his Petty Officer Cadet award at the Units Annual Inspection.

This is the highest rank a cadet can achieve within the Sea Cadets. Well Done Tom!

Able Cadet John Ah-Kye presented with his B Tec in public services.

Cadets helping out at the London Boat Show

Cadets From the Rebel Race Squad, including one from Southend unit, helped at the London Boat Show and met the First Sea Lord, the CEO of the Sea Cadets and a host of Olympic Sailors.

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Three Southend Sea Cadets from TS Implacable have just completed their RYA Day Skipper Practical Motor Cruising qualification. An impressive achievement on it’s own, but this qualification adds to the RYA Day Skipper Practical Sailing and RYA Day Skipper Theory qualifications they already hold.

The three demanding courses required the cadets to demonstrate skills in practical navigation, close quarters manoeuvring, and a variety of other tasks including blind pilotage, emergency steering and use of radar.

The RYA Day Skipper qualification is the first step towards offshore command and is usually a qualification gained by adult boaters.

TS Implacable Commanding Officer, Lieutenant (SCC) Les Hawkins RNR said “for a 15 or 16 year old cadets to achieve any one of the RYA Day Skipper qualifications is an excellent achievement. For the cadets to complete all three is nothing short of outstanding. Having one cadet with these qualifications within a Sea Cadet unit is really something to be proud of, but to have three cadets within a single Sea Cadet Unit is probably unique. I am extremely proud of their hard work and efforts, they really are a credit to themselves, TS Implacable and the Sea Cadet Corps as a whole. The cadets are now working on the RYA Yachtmaster qualification which I have no doubt they will achieve in the not too distant future”