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Ship's Diary  During her time at sea, HMS Endurance will be sending back regular diaries to keep us all up to date with what is happening on this deployment. Use the links below to read extracts from the diary. Back Home Again A Busy Summer for 212 Flight Sept / October 2003 Ships Entertainments Ships Entertainments Photographs Visit to Monte Video Monte Video Photographs Visit to Mare Harbour Grytviken 30 Nov-1 Dec Work Period 1 Continues Christmas and New Year Festivities Work Period 2 Photo Gallery The End of Work Period 2 Back at Sea Again Work Period 3 Photo Gallery A Week in the Weddell Sports News Poles Apart Adios Antarctica Heading North Again Mar Del Plata Tristan da Cunha Photo Gallery Cape Town Visit St Helena Nearly Home Photo Gallery The Rest of the Year End of the Refit Leaving Falmouth The Rest of the Year June-December After a long and at times demanding deployment, and with such distinguished guests as the Commander-in-Chief Fleet, Admiral Sir Jonathan Band, onboard for our arrival back home, HMS ENDURANCE was welcomed back into Portsmouth with style. Our Lynx helicopter, and HMS GLASGOW’s, performed a fly-past as they disembarked to return to Yeovilton. The RM band on the jetty provided a stirring welcome as we entered harbour at Procedure Alpha, with the entire Ship’s Company dressed in their Number 1 uniforms. Approximately 200 friends and families were on the jetty as ENDURANCE manoeuvred herself adeptly alongside (although technically this was done by the CO, not the ship!). Minutes later, the gangway was across and the reunion began. After an emotional welcome the ship emptied quickly as personnel handed over and made their long awaited departure on leave. The ship was left in the capable hands of the lucky few who had flown home from Ascension and had taken their leave early, prior to the ship’s arrival. After a complete break (although not necessarily a relaxing one!), it’s back to work again as the ship enters refit. The ship has been de-stored and is now in Falmouth where her refit is taking place. She will remain there with a small core of personnel until early September, when we hope to take her back from the contractors. From there we will undertake acceptance trials and then operational shakedown. A lot of personnel will have changed over the summer period and we will use this opportunity for the Ship’s Company to practice various scenarios that could, and sometimes do, occur at sea. These will range from a fire or flood, to the crash on deck of a helicopter. By the time we finish our annual Operation Sea Training (OST) in November, everyone will be fully able to perform their roles onboard in any and every situation. We will then return to Portsmouth and have our first Christmas at home with families in 4 years, before deploying early in January 2005 to the Antarctic once again.
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