December 7 is the annual SMEE Competition Day - this year separate from the Christmas party.  It’s a great occasion not only to put your best work into competition but also to display work on the table which you don’t want to enter for competition judging.

Council and the judges are very much hoping for a good collection both of Competition entries and of general Work on the Table, so please bring along both finished and part-built work for fellow members to look at and appreciate. It doesn't have to be perfect - everyone's work is of interest.

Models may be set up from 11:00

Polly competition in the morning if sufficient entries - otherwise combined with main competition

Talk: How the Royal Navy Hit ‘em  - The 20^th Century Battleship and its Guns

Alasdair Milne

For generations the capital ships of the RN were its battleships and from the 1900’s the apogee was the ‘all big gun’ battleship.  Alasdair’s talk will illustrate the engineering of this final generation with their guns, mountings, and control systems and their development into the integrated weapons systems they became by 1945.