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HMS Seahawk . .RNAS Culdrose celebrates Cornish honour in the sun

June 22, 2013, 11:05 pm
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Culdrose celebrates Cornish honour in the sun
21 June 2013
200 sailors and airmen from RNAS Culdrose celebrated the freedom of Helston by marching through the heart of the Cornish market town.
The air station, which lies just south of the town on the Lizard Peninsula, has enjoyed the borough’s highest honour for more than 50 years – and marks it with an annual freedom parade.

Senior ratings salute Cllr Jonathan Radford-Gaby and Capt Mark Garratt, Culdrose’s CO. Pictures: LA(Phot) Abbie Herron, RNAS Culdrose
THE Cornish market town of Helston was brought to a standstill as 200 sailors and airmen from nearby RNAS Culdrose celebrated their freedom.
It’s an honour the air station – also known as HMS Seahawk – has enjoyed since 1958 and one its men and women enjoy annually by exercising their right to march through the Borough of Helston (pop. circa 10,000) with “swords drawn, bayonets fixed, bands playing and colours flying”.
Crowds bathed in Cornish sunshine and enthusiastically lined the processional route, cheering and waving Union Flags as Seahawk’s band marched at the head of a parade including platoons of officers, ratings and a Colours Party parading the Queens Colour flanked by sailors guarding the Ensign.
The Honour Guard marches down Meneage Street
Culdrose personnel had earlier been inspected by the Mayor of Helston, Cllr Jonathan Radford-Gaby, who was impressed by their smart appearance and bearing.
“HMS Seahawk has always played a big part in our community – and it’s always a great pleasure to see the Freedom Parade. It is now part of the history of Helston,” he told the gathered personnel.
Taking the salute on Coinagehall Street with the mayor was HMS Seahawk’s Commanding Officer Capt Mark Garratt and members of the town council.
The air station, which lies about a mile south of the market town, has served the Royal Navy since the late 1940s. It’s presently home to the Fleet Air Arm’s entire fleet of Merlin helicopters, plus ‘eye-in-the-sky’ Sea Kings, the rescue Sea Kings of 771 NAS, fast jets of the Fleet Requirements Air Direction Unit, the school of Flight Deck Operations and Observer training (via 750 NAS) among other units and squadrons.
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