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Class photographs have been broken down into three sections to reflect the three designations used to identify classes of boy arts during the life of HMS Caledonia. They are as shown below. Just click on a hot spot and follow the link.
Pre-Series Courses - The First Generation (1930-September 1947)
The first generation of boy arts who attended HMS Caledonia from 1930-1947. The men who manned the ships that fought the Second World War and on to Korea and beyond. Black caps and Edwardian swagger in abundance!
The Series Courses - S1 to S64 (September 1947 - September 1968)
The post-war years and perhaps the biggest wedge of boy arts being processed for Naval Service. From an austere start in black-buttoned rough serge to the swinging 60’s and a transformation into white caps with diagonal serge.
When rum, bum and baccy gave way to junk, jive and jelly-babies.
AACs - The Last Generation (January 1969 - September 1983)
The baby boomers. Fledged in the fifties and sixties, the boy arts for whom repair by replacement became an increasing existential threat. And yet the ability to re-create and re-build thousands of miles from home, from Falklands to Iraq, was still the one sure way of maintaining FLOAT-MOVE-FIGHT!
