What does RNPS stand for?

The Royal Naval Patrol Service played a key part in the war effort.

I was on mine-sweeping trawlers in the Royal Naval Patrol Service, known as Harry Tate's Navy; the only branch of the Royal Navy awarded a special silver badge by the wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill and approved by His Majesty King George VI.

The money means we can help our older neighbours to pass on to the younger generation the pool of knowledge they have about wartime Liverpool VE Day grants pounds 2,550 for the Birkenhead branch of The Cheshire Regiment Association reunion pounds 4,054 for the Royal Marines Association's Liverpool branch to attend a service and parade in London pounds 630 for Merseyside's Royal Naval Patrol Service Association t o attend a reunion in Lowestoft CAPTION(S): REMEMBER: The memorial to the 1940 bombing in Blackstock Gardens, right; HISTORY: Tony McGann

FURTHER to the earlier answer, the Royal Naval Patrol Service, aka Harry Tate's Navy, was a perpetuation of the World War I Dover and Auxiliary Patrols.

Nautical Club, Bishopsgate St: Today 8pm RNA Central Autumn Dance' tomorrow 11am Royal Naval Patrol Service Assn, 8pm Nautical Club dance and tombola' Mon closed' Tues 8pm RNA B'ham Central' Wed 11.

In Belle Vue Park, Lowestoft, there is a tall fluted column holding the names of all those from the Royal Naval Patrol Service who gave their lives for the safety of others.

Makeshift Navy THE Royal Naval Patrol Service (Letters) was crewed by fishermen, reservists and occasional conscripts and many volunteers, of which I was one.