THE ROYAL NAVY CLUB

DINNER CARD FOR 2022/2023

 

Date Dinner Venue Meetings
Friday
1 September 2022

In Person and Zoom
Annual General Meeting

Reed Hall, Exeter University

1730 Drinks and Buffet on completion

Thursday
20 October 2022
Guest Night
To commemorate the Battle of Trafalgar
HMS WARRIOR 1860

1430 Committee

Royal Maritime Club**

Thursday *
2 February 2023
To celebrate Founders’ Day
and to entertain the Admiralty Board
Army & Navy Club
London
(No Members’ Guests)
1430 Committee
Army & Navy Club
London
Friday
2 June 2023

Guest Night
To celebrate HM The King’s Coronation and commemorate the Gulf War 2003

HMS BELFAST, London

1430 Committee 

Location TBC

Thursday
26 October or 19 October 2023
Guest Night
To commemorate the Battle of Trafalgar

BRNC DARTMOUTH, Devon

1430 Committee
Britannia Room, BRNC
Thursday *
1 February 2024
To celebrate Founders’ Day
and to entertain the Admiralty Board
HQS WELLINGTON
London
(No Members’ Guests)
1430 Committee
HQS WELLINGTON
London

NB: Spouses and partners are warmly welcome as guests at June dinners.
* Not a Guest Night. Club dines the Admiralty Board. All other dinners are guest nights.
** Royal Maritime Club, Queen Street, Portsmouth PO1 3HS (previously the “Sailors’ Home Club”)

Dinner NOTES

  • 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 £80, Guests £90; Elsewhere: Members £65, Guests £75

Members intending to dine are requested to:

  • 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

2022       1 Sept 2022, 1730 in Reed Hall, Exeter University

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
10 June 2022 RY Britannia tbc Captain Gavin Pritchard Cdr Charles Wylie
3 February 2022 HQS Wellington tbc 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

Dinners (archive) >