Paul Butterworth

#headhunter. Partner at Odgers. Board & senior roles in the #Maritime & #Shipping sector. #Chair of @Seafarers_KGFS. Former RN. Shipwrights Livery. TH YB

[Paul Butterworth @ShippingButters]

@AlistairCarns The last occasion was on Plymouth Hoe, I attended as Flags to CINCFLEET. The issue that got greatest attention in the months beforehand was finding sufficient numbers of white helmets!!!

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@IBallantyn @MKarlDawes @Hantsprints @WarshipsIFR I have one of the 250 prints of Mandy Shepherd’s commemorative pictures. This ‘gathering’ was held to lay the ground for the T200 International Fleet Review, two years later. Happy days.

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@AWenham1 @NavyLookout @WarshipCam @WarshipsIFR @seawaves_mag @UKDefJournal @UKForcesTracker Capt F6 25yrs ago, where has the time gone?! 😔

[AthleteGlow @link_1234_]

She didn’t even try to be the center of attention. 😮‍💨

[Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 @DefenceHQ]

HMS Medway has arrived off Tristan da Cunha, ready to deliver six civilian medics and critical supplies to the island.

She will remain in the area for several days and will retrieve the team who parachuted on to the island earlier this month 🇬🇧

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@Knocker07047718 @AWenham1 @NavyLookout @WarshipCam @WarshipsIFR @seawaves_mag @UKDefJournal @UKForcesTracker @HMNBPortsmouth @RoyalNavy And to you also! 🫡

[Paul Butterworth @ShippingButters]

@AWenham1 @Knocker07047718 @NavyLookout @WarshipCam @WarshipsIFR @seawaves_mag @UKDefJournal @UKForcesTracker @HMNBPortsmouth @RoyalNavy 🤭🤭🤭😁 only thing I abs know, is that the Union Flag is never flown at sea, unless it’s as a jack in an RN warship’s bows, or a Court Martial is being held onboard or an Admiral of the Fleet has flag shifted afloat.

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@Knocker07047718 @AWenham1 @NavyLookout @WarshipCam @WarshipsIFR @seawaves_mag @UKDefJournal @UKForcesTracker @HMNBPortsmouth @RoyalNavy Here’s a pic from @AWenham1 back in 2024 of the USS GUNSTON HALL correctly dressed.

[Paul Butterworth @ShippingButters]

@Knocker07047718 @AWenham1 @NavyLookout @WarshipCam @WarshipsIFR @seawaves_mag @UKDefJournal @UKForcesTracker @HMNBPortsmouth @RoyalNavy I see so many incorrect 🇬🇧 in the Solent going to Soton and not flying the Red Duster. I can’t find QRs on the subject just now, but this is from AI.

[Paul Butterworth @ShippingButters]

@CSOC_MOD @DefenceHQ Admiralty House, Northwood? Former residence of @RoyalNavy CINCFLEET. Same view in 1980/81.
📸Tim Lewin.

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@WILLIAM53847954 @earplifting @jackjonestv @metpoliceuk 😮‍💨 officers of His Majesty’s @RoyalMarines are part of the Naval Service, but they are not Naval officers.

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@earplifting @WILLIAM53847954 @jackjonestv @metpoliceuk There wasn’t a second Naval officer; 1 x RM; 1 x RN; 1 x Army. Gen Sir Rob McGowan; Adm Sir Keith Blount; Gen Dame Sharon Nesmith.

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@AkasakaAomori @jeromestarkey Ah, I was referring to Op BARRAS in 2000.

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@AkasakaAomori @jeromestarkey Did not parachute then but flew into Lunghi Airport.

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Love this! 😀

[Governor's Office - St Helena, Ascension & Tristan @GO_ASHT]

Dear David Attenborough,

Congratulations on reaching your 100th lap around the sun, young man!

Thank you for sharing the wonders of our world with such care and curiosity.

Here’s to many more years, slow and steady wins the race!

With admiration,
Jonathan the Tortoise

[Paul Butterworth @ShippingButters]

@Thighboots2 @NickStanley3 26….and naming them all was a good Middle Watch quiz!

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@Franksquarerig Hmm, didn’t Adm Sir Peter Abbott, too? 🤔