Date | Dinner | Venue | Meetings |
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Thursday 27 October 2024 |
Guest Night *** To commemorate the Battle of Trafalgar |
HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH**, Portsmouth |
1430 Committee RN Warfighting Centre |
Tuesday 11 February 2025 |
No Members’ Guests* To celebrate Founders’ Day and to entertain the Admiralty Board |
Victory Services Club* London |
1430 Committee Victory Services Club London |
Friday 6 June 2025 |
Guest Night (Spouses and Partners Welcome)*** |
HMS BELFAST****, London |
1430 Committee HMS BELFAST |
Thursday 30 October 2025 |
Guest Night*** To commemorate the Battle of Trafalgar |
HMS NELSON Portsmouth |
1430 Committee Royal Maritime Club, Queen Street, Portsmouth |
Thursday 5 February 2026 |
No Members’ Guests* To celebrate Founders’ Day and to entertain the Admiralty Board |
Pewterers’ Hall London |
1430 Committee Army & Navy Club London |
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* Not a Guest Night. Club dines the Admiralty Board. All other dinners are guest nights.
** Venue confirmed as HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH
*** All guests warmely welcome
**** Back up venue Pewterers’ Hall, London
Dinner NOTES
- Time: 6.15 for 7.00 p.m. for all London dinners (6.45 for 7.30pm dinners elsewhere)
- Dress: Dinner Jacket without Decorations or Medals
- Cost: London: Members £90, Guests £100; Elsewhere: Members £75, Guests £85
Members intending to dine are requested to consult the relevant webpage update:
- If possible, give at least seven days notice to the Secretary of The Royal Navy Club at the address below.
- If invitation card to guest(s) is wished for, notify Secretary with the names, addresses & post nominals of guest(s)
- Make payment of the appropriate dinner charge in advance of the dinner – payment on arrival is undesirable and stands the risk of being mislaid during a good dinner!
See printed dinner card for payment online procedure.
Pre-dinner drinks reception start times have been advance by 15 mins to give more time for fellowship.
There will be a seating plan for all dinners. Members should make known any seating preferences on notifying the Secretary of their intention to dine, and include any need for pre-dinner changing facilities.
payments
Members are encouraged to pay on line direct to the Royal Navy Club account at Holt’s Military Banking and are requested to inform the Secretary in advance of their intention. Surname, initials and month of dinner should be used as the reference.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
7 Sept 23 – Royal Maritime Club, Queen Street, Portsmouth Guest Speaker: Cdr Teilo Elliot-Smith, CO HMS TAMAR
5 Sept 24 – HMS Collingwood, Portsmouth
Accommodation
The Army & Navy Club (the “Rag”) and the Naval & Military Club (the “In & Out”) offer temporary honorary membership to those dining with the Royal Navy Club in London for the night of the dinner. For reservations telephone 0207 827 8029
NOTICES OF DINNERS
Notices, with the names of Presidents and Principal Guests, are posted in Service Clubs and shore Wardroom Messes.
You can also sign up (in the footer, below) to receive Notices by email.
Reports of dinners which have taken place are published by The Daily Telegraph.
A list of more recent dinners can be found below and in the archive.
Update Your Details
Any change to your email address, postal address, style or title should be sent to the secretary@royalnavyclub.org
Or by post to :
The Secretary
The Royal Navy Club
Trafalgar
2 Elston Meadow
Crediton
Devon EX17 3SZ
Or by phone: 01363 773421
Or mobile: 07749 380332
Recent dinners
Date | Venue | No. Dining | President | Club Guests |
17 October 2024 | HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH | 108 | Capt Will King | Mr Stephen Prince, Cdr Ed Moss-Ward |
14 June 2024 | RY Britannia | 85 | Cdre Mike Beardall | Dr Tim Benbow |
1 February 2024 | Army & Navy Club | 68 | Adm Sir Philip Jones | Earl of Minto, Adm Sir Ben Key, Admiralty Board |
26 October 2023 | BRNC Dartmouth | 63 | Capt Sarah Oakley | Cdre Simon Kelly, Cdr Russell Clark |
2 June 2023 | HMS BELFAST | 58 | Capt Richie Hewitt | VAdm Sir Alan Massey |
2 February 2023 | Army & Navy Club | 70 | Adm Philip Jones | Rt Hon James Heappey MP, Adm Sir Ben Key, VAdm Martin Connell, RAdm Anthony Rimington, Mrs Sara Davies, Lt Cdr Tom Loxton |
10 June 2022 | RY Britannia | 95 | Captain Gavin Pritchard | Cdr Charles Wylie |
3 February 2022 | HQS Wellington | 63 | VAdm Sir Charles Montgomery | Minister for Defence Procurement, Jeremy Quin MP Adm Sir Ben Key VAdm Andrew Burns VAdm Martin Connell RAdm Iain Lower |
28 October 2021 | HMS Nelson | 78 | VAdm Andrew Burns | No guest speaker |
4 June 2021 | Cancelled due to pandemic | N/A | N/A | N/A |
4 February 2021 | Zoom Conference | 110 | VAdm Sir Charles Montgomery | Rt Hon Ben Wallace MP Admiral Tony Radakin Rear Admiral Iain Lower |
29 October 2020 | Cancelled due to Pandemic | N/A | N/A | N/A |
6 February 2020 | Naval and Military Club, St James’s |
76 | VAdm Sir Charles Montgomery | Admiral Tony Radakin Vice Admiral Jerry Kyd Vice Admiral Nick Hine Lt Cdr Mark White |
24 October 2019 | HMS Victory | 104 | Cdre Rob Vitali | Dr Nicholas Rodger |
14 June 2019 | RY Britannia | 96 | RAdm Neil Rankin | RAdm John Weale |
7 February 2019 | The Naval Club, Mayfair | 73 | Adm Sir Mark Stanhope | Rt Hon Earl Howe PC Admiral Sir Philip Jones Vice Admiral Ben Key Vice Admiral Tony Radakin Maj Gen Gwyn Jenkins RM Maj Gen Charlie Stickland RM Lt Cdr James Wallington-Smith Mr George Hutchinson |
25 October 2018 | The Wardroom, HMS NELSON | 85 | Cdr Paul Ottewell | Prof Julian Lindley-French (speaker), Lt Cdr Hugh Harris RN (Prize winner) |
7 June 2018 | HMS EAGLET, Liverpool | 54 | VAdm Michael Gretton | Mr Jonathan Dimbleby (speaker) Cdre Philip Waterhouse Surg Cdr Harry Rourke RNR Dr Laura Smith Lt Cdr Roy Miller RNR |