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James Carine, (14 September 1934 – 27 January 2024) was a senior

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officer who served as

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to Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command (1989–1991).

Early life

James Carine was born in

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, on September 14 1934, the eldest of three children to Mr. & Mrs. Amos Carine. His father was a sailor, seeing service in the Merchant Navy with the

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as well as during the

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in which he was engaged in the

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. In addition his father served on the maiden voyage of the

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''Mauretania''. Carine lived his early years in Queen Street, Castletown, with the family later moving to King William's Road on the Janet's Corner Estate. Attending Victoria Road Infants School, he subsequently passed his High School Entrance Exam and attended

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before, in September 1945, he won a Henry Bloom Noble Scholarship to attend

King William's College King William's College () is a co-educational Private schools in the United Kingdom, private school for pupils aged 3 to 18 near Castletown, Isle of Man, Castletown on the Isle of Man. It is a member of the International Baccalaureate and Hea ...

as a day boy.Isle of Man Examiner, Friday, November 24, 1950; Section: Front page, Page: 1 Sitting the theoretical part of his naval entrance examination in June 1949, Carine subsequently attended the Interview Panel in October 1950. Out of 238 applicants for the 27 vacancies available, he was one of 24 accepted.

Naval career

Carine attended the

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. During his time at Dartmouth he was chosen as one of the cadets to represent the college at the

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on June 2, 1953, being posted on the route in

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.Castletown Gazette, Saturday, June 13, 1953; Page: 6 Following the Coronation, he was invited to dine with the

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. Carine served on the

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HMS ''Devonshire'' before joining the

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HMS ''Enard Bay''. Further postings saw him serve onboard the Submarine Depot Ships HMS ''Forth'' and HMS ''Ausonia''; the ''Minotaur'' Class Cruiser HMS ''Superb''; the Beachy Head Class Repair Ship HMS ''Girdle Ness''; the

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HMS ''Scarborough''; and the

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HMS ''Glamorgan. along with shore postings including

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HMS Ganges (shore establishment) HMS ''Ganges'' was a training ship and later stone frigate of the Royal Navy. She was established as a boys' training establishment in 1865, and was based aboard a number of hulks before moving ashore. She was based alternately in Falmouth, Cor ...

and

RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron) Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton, commonly referred to as WAFU central, (HMS ''Heron'') is an airbase of the Royal Navy, sited a few miles north of Yeovil, in the English county of Somerset. It is one of two active Fleet Air Arm bases, the ot ...

. Senior shore postings saw him serve as

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Executive Assistant to

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Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic based in

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, and as

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in Command

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at the time of the 400th anniversary of the

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at which he hosted a dinner for

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and His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. During her visit, Her Majesty the Queen also added a stitch to the

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, as did Carine and many other Naval personnel. Promoted to the rank of

Carine served as Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command at

HMNB Portsmouth His Majesty's Naval Base, Portsmouth (HMNB Portsmouth) is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Devonport). Portsmouth Naval Base is part of the city of Portsmouth; it is loc ...

. Carine retired from the Royal Navy in 1992.

Post-Naval career

Following his retirement from the Royal Navy he joined the British Arab Horse Society as Manager and Registrar and was appointed Chairman of the International Stud Book Committee for the

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Breed. Contributing to the

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and acting as Independent Chairman of the WAHO Stud Book Advisory Sub-committee and Independent Co-Chairman of the World Registrars Meeting, attending a number of conferences including in

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(1998),

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(2000),

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(2002),

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

(2004) and

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(2007). In 1988 he joined the

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as a Liveryman, he was elected to be Master of the

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in 1997/98. As part of his duties that year he led the company as part of the procession for the

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that year and hosted a dinner for the members onboard

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. Furthermore, also in 1988, Carine was awarded the

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. Retiring from the Arab Horse Society in 2000, he joined the Wiltshire Ambulance Service as Chairman, before its merger with Bath and Gloucestershire services to form

Great Western Ambulance Service The Great Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust (GWAS) was a National Health Service (NHS) trust which provided emergency and non-emergency patient transport services to Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, Gloucestershire, North Somerset, Swin ...

. Carine then joined the management team of

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in 2006, Bath as Chairman. He also served as a Member of the National

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; a Trustee of the

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Charity and a local welfare representative for BLESMA. He was also a Fellow of the

Chartered Governance Institute The Chartered Governance Institute, previously known as the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA), is a qualifying and membership body for Company Secretary, company secretaries and governance professionals operating in sev ...

. From 1997 to 2003 he was a member of the Board of Governors at

Leweston School Leweston School is a co-educational independent day and boarding school near Sherborne in Dorset. The School consists of a Nursery (3 months - 4years), Prep School (4–11 years), Senior School (11–16 years) and Sixth Form (16–18 years). Le ...

. In 2012, Carine published a memoir titled 'Newspaper Round to Rear Admiral, Odyssey of a Castletown Boy', copies of which are available in Castletown Library and the

Manx Museum The Manx Museum () in Douglas, Isle of Man is the national museum of the Isle of Man. It is run by Manx National Heritage. The museum covers 10,000 years the history of the Isle of Man from the Stone Age to the modern era. The museum serves as h ...

Personal life and death

In 1961 he married Sally. The marriage produced four children; one daughter and three sons. In his retirement Carine was active in his hobbies of dingy racing and

horse racing Horse racing is an equestrian performance activity, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition. It is one of the most ancient of all sports, as its bas ...

. He was created a Knight of the

Order of St. Gregory the Great The Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great (; ) was established on 1 September 1831, by Pope Gregory XVI, seven months after his election as Pope. The order is one of the five Papal order of knighthood, orders of knighthood of th ...

by the then

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II (born Karol Józef Wojtyła; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 16 October 1978 until Death and funeral of Pope John Paul II, his death in 2005. In his you ...

. Carine died on 27 January 2024, at the age of 89. A private funeral was held on 15 February 2024 in

Chippenham Chippenham is a market town in north-west Wiltshire, England. It lies north-east of Bath, Somerset, Bath, west of London and is near the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The town was established on a crossing of the River Avon, ...

at St. Mary's Catholic Church.

References

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