The Association was formed in September 1996, after two founder members, Vic Chanter and Ken Kent, who served aboard the cruiser Phoebe in 1941, advertised for former shipmates to meet them in a hotel in Nottingham, just to ‘swing the lamp’.
To their amazement, forty shipmates turned up, not all from the 1941 era; many from later years, and the latter day frigate. Between them it was decided that an association should be formed and, as it was believed that an HMS Phoebe Association was already in existence, it was decided to call the new group the HMS Phoebe Cruiser Association.
Enquiries revealed that there had been an HMS Phoebe Association set up by shipmates of the latter day frigate, but which had very few members. When the organiser ‘crossed the bar’ no one took over and the association was disbanded.
Once this was confirmed, the association was renamed, and by the first AGM/Reunion it had grown to 150 members. Numbers grow as more hear of the association, and the purpose of this web site is to spread knowledge of
