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The Remo Four

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The Remo Four
Remo Four publicity photograph, circa 1964
Background information
Origin
Liverpool, England
Genre(s)
Beat, Rock 'n' Roll, British Invasion
Years active
1959-1970
Label(s)
Pye Records, Piccadilly Records, Star-Club Records
Associated acts
Johnny Sandon, Tommy Quickly, George Harrison, Ashton, Gardner & Dyke
Members
Colin ManleyPhilip RogersDon AndrewRoy DykeWayne BickertonTony WaddingtonTony AshtonKeith Stokes
The Remo Four were a 1950s-1960s rock band from Liverpool, England. They were contemporaries of The Beatles, and later had the same manager, Brian Epstein. Its members were Colin Manley (born 16 April 1942, in Liverpool, Lancashire died 9 April 1999) (lead guitar/vocals), Philip Rogers (rhythm guitar/bass guitar/vocals), Don Andrew (born Donald Andrew, in 1942, in Liverpool) (bass guitar/vocals), and Roy Dyke (drums) (born 13 February 1945, in Liverpool). Andrew and Manley were in the same class at school (Liverpool Institute for Boys) as Paul McCartney.
Manley and Andrew formed the Remo Quartet in 1958, with singer/guitarist Keith Stokes and drummer Harry Prytherch. They progressed from playing local parties and contests to regular hall appearances, and turned professional, changing their name to the Remo Four in summer 1959. They played a mix of vocal harmony material ( la The Everly Brothers), and instrumental numbers in the manner of The Shadows, The Ventures, and Chet Atkins.
The Remo Four were voted Number Three Group in a 1961 Mersey Beat poll, and among their fans were The Beatles, fresh from a season in Hamburg, Germany. Both groups were among the regulars at the Cavern Club during 1961 and 1962, and both shared the bill with Gerry & The Pacemakers, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, and Ted "Kingsize" Taylor and the Dominoes, at the 1961 "Operation Big Beat", a festival at New Brighton's Tower Ballroom. While The Beatles travelled back and forth to Hamburg, the Remo Four began playing American Air Force bases in France, building their stage and musical experience. A highlight of their early career was sharing the stage with the Shadows, in the latter's only Cavern Club appearance. Johnny Sandon joined the band as vocalist in 1962, and stayed for two years.

Johnny Sandon & The Remo Four publicity photo, circa 1963
In early 1963, Prytherch decided to get married and find a regular job, and Roy Dyke took his place in the band. That year the band signed up with Epstein's NEMS Enterprises and acquired a new lead singer, Tommy Quickly, and a recording contract with Piccadilly Records, backing Quickly on "Tip of My Tongue" and other songs. The band also released instrumentals, including a driving rendition of Henry Mancini's Peter Gunn theme.
Different members came and went, including songwriters Wayne Bickerton and Tony Waddington (who later joined Pete Best in a group, that moved to America), and Tony Ashton (keyboards/vocals), who replaced Don Andrew, with Rogers moving to bass. Another NEMS artist, Billy J. Kramer, became a frontman for the band, which adopted the name "The New Dakotas" while backing him. Despite their talent and track record, the band's success in the record market was limited, and most of their work came as backing musicians, or as the house band in German clubs, including the Star-Club in Hamburg. They released an album, Smile!, on the Star-Club's own label in 1967, featuring elements of rock and jazz.
Late in 1967, Beatle George Harrison hired the Remo Four as his backing band for part of his first solo project, the soundtrack album to the movie Wonderwall. While the songs were mostly instrumentals, they did record one lyrical song, "In The First Place", with Harrison, which was left in the can until the 1990s. They also became Billy Fury's backing band, in the late 1960s.
Disbanding in 1970, Ashton and Dyke joined guitarist Kim Gardner, formerly of The Creation and The Birds (not to be confused with California rock band The Byrds), to form Ashton, Gardner & Dyke, who later recorded a song called "Ballad of the Remo Four". Ashton later formed Paice, Ashton & Lord with members of Deep Purple. Manley became an accompanist for singers including Engelbert Humperdinck, and later joined The Swinging Blue Jeans. Don Andrew and Colin Manley appeared with Gerry Marsden (of Gerry & The Pacemakers fame) performing on stage in an episode of the UK TV soap "Brookside" in the 1990s. Manley died of cancer on 9 April 1999, and a memorial concert was held for him that June, with some of his former bandmates performing. Ashton also died of cancer, on 28 May 2001.
Discography
Lies/On the Horizon (with Johnny Sandon) (7 inch single)Pye 7N 15542 (July 1963)
Magic Potion/Yes (with Johnny Sandon) (7 inch single)Pye 7N 15559 (July/August 1963)
Tip of My Tongue/Heaven Only Knows (with...(and so on)

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Steam Gun Boat

yanglulu48 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:33:13 +0200

Class overview
Name:
Steam Gun Boat (SGB)
In service:
Nov 1941
Completed:
7
Active:
none
Lost:
1
General characteristics
Displacement:
175 tons (standard), 255 tons (deep load)
Length:
44.3 m (145 ft 8 in) overall
Beam:
7.1 m (20 ft)
Draught:
1.68 m (5.5ft)
Propulsion:
twin Metrovick geared steam turbines, 1 boiler delivering 5965 kW (8,000 shp) to two shafts
Speed:
35 kts maximum
Range:
200 n.miles at full speed; 900 n.miles @ 12 knots
Complement:
27 initially (3 officers and 24 men), later rising to 34 as a result of changes in armament.
Armament:
(final arrangement) one 76.2-mm (3-in) gun, two single 6-pdr guns, two twin 20-mm cannon, and two 21-in torpedo tubes
The Steam Gun Boat (SGB) was a class of steam gun boats built during 1940 - 1942 for the Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy.
They were developed in parallel with the Fairmile D motor torpedo boats
("Dog boats"), specifically as a response to the need to hunt down
German E-boats and also as a response to the scarcity of suitable
diesel engines. While sixty were planned only an initial batch of nine
were ordered on 8 November 1940, of which seven were completed.
Contents
1 Design
2 Service
3 Boats
4 Notes and references
5 See also
6 External links
//

Design
The Steam Gun Boats were conceived to answer the seeming need for a
craft which was large enough to put to sea in rough weather and which
could operate both as a 'super-gunboat' and a torpedo carrier,
combining the functions of the MGB (Motor Gun Boat) and MTB (Motor
Torpedo Boat) in the same fashion as did the German S-boats. They were
the largest of the Coastal forces vessels, and were the only ones to be
built of steel (all other Coastal Forces craft were of wood). They
resembled a miniature destroyer, and were perhaps the most graceful of
all the craft produced during WW2. However their comparatively large
silhouette was a drawback, making them too easy a target for the faster
German craft.
They were 145 feet 8 inches long and had a displacement of 172 tons
(202 tons fully fueled). They were powered by two 4,000hp steam
turbines using special flash boilers. These boilers proved to be
particularly vulnerable to attack and - once the vessel had broken down
- it required a major effort to repair it. Steam had the advantage of
quietness but demanded a large hull. Large wooden hulls were not
feasible for mass production so steel was used. This meant hulls and
machinery were beyond the scope of the small yards engaged in the rapid
expansion of the coastal forces, and the SGB thus competed for berths
in yards hard put to produce urgently required convoy escorts. Also
they competed in the demand for mild steel and steam power plants
against the more urgently demanded destroyers; accordingly the planned
51 further vessels were never ordered, while the two units ordered from
Thornycroft were never begun due to enemy action. The seven vessels
actually completed were built by Yarrow, Hawthorn Leslie, J. Samuel
White and William Denny and Brothers, entering service by the middle of
1942.
Fuel consumption was heavy with the added disadvantage that, where a
petrol boat could start from cold and get away immediately, the SGB had
to remain in steam. Over time the addition of 18mm (0.7 in) protective
plate over the sides of the boiler and engine rooms, together with the
extra armament and crew, increased the displacement to 260 tons and
their service speed was consequentially reduced to 30 kts.
Veritable battleships of the coastal forces, the Steam Gun Boats were
heavily-armed and could maintain high speed in a seaway. In action
E-boat commanders respected the SGBs almost as much as destroyers.
Service
The nine boats ordered initially received the designation SGB 1 to 9
(of which numbers 1 and 2 were cancelled). The 1st SGB Flotilla was
formed at Portsmouth by mid-June 1942, under the command of Lt-Cmdr.
Peter Scott, son of the Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Scott and
later a noted ornithologist, conservationist and broadcaster. Their
first fleet action took place in the Baie de Seine (the Seine Estuary)
shortly after midnight on 19 June, when two vessels - SGB 7 and 8,
under the joint command of Lt. J. D. Ritchie, in company with the Hunt
class destroyer HMS Albrighton encountered several E-boats escorting
two German merchantmen. SGB 7 was sunk in this action; as a consequence
the Admiralty noted their vulnerability and refitted them with the
additional armour over their engine and boiler rooms, as mentioned
above. At the same time the six survivors were renamed after wildlife
in the form "SGB Grey...." .
Boats
Nine vessels below were all ordered on 8 November 1940.
Ship
Builder
Laid down
Launched
Commissioned
Fate
SGB1
Thornycroft, Woolston
Cancelled
SGB2
Thornycroft, Woolston
Cancelled
SGB3/Grey Seal
Yarrow, Scotstoun
24 January 1941
29 August 1941
21 February 1942
For sale 20 August 1949
SGB4/Grey Fox
Yarrow, Scotstoun
24 January 1941
25 September 1941
15 March 1942
For sale October 1947
SGB5/Grey Owl
Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn
17 April 1941
27 August 1941
1 April 1942
Sold to British Iron & Steel and scrapped 15 December 1949
SGB6/Grey Shark
Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn
28 March 1941
17 November 1941
30 April 1942
Sold 13 October 1947. Houseboat in 1949
SGB7
Denny, Dunbarton
3 February 1941
25 September 1941
11 March 1942
Sunk by gunfire from German surface vessels in the Seine Estuary 19 June 1942
SGB8/Grey Wolf
Denny, Dunbarton
3 February 1941
3 November 1941
17 April 1942
Sold 3 February 1948
SGB9/Grey Goose
J. Samuel White, Cowes
23 January 1941
14 February 1942
4 July 1942
Sold about 1957
These boats formed the 1st SGB Flotilla which was initially formed at
Portsmouth, but later based at HMS Aggressive, Newhaven, Sussex on the
south coast of England.
SGB 5 was damaged in the Dieppe raid after meeting a German convoy of R boats.
In 1944 the six survivors were all converted to fast minesweepers and
all (except SGB9/Grey Goose) were sold off in the years after the war.
SGB9 remained in service as a trials vessel from 1952 to 1956, and was
sold off subsequently, becoming a mercantile repair hulk from 1958,
being renamed Anserava.
Notes and references
^ BBC WW2 Peoples War accessed 11th December 2007
The Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II by Chris Bishop, 2002 ISBN 978-1586637620
Coastal Forces SGBs at unithistories.com accessed 11th December 2007
David K. Brown, The Design and Construction of British Warships 1939-1945, Volume 3, Conway Maritime Press, ISBN 0-85177-674-4.
George L Moore, The Steam Gunboats - in Warship 1999-2000, Conways Maritime Press, ISBN 0 85177 7244.
See also
Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy
External links
Picture of a steam gun boat
Categories: Boat types | Ships of the Royal Navy | Steam boats(and so on)
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