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The P&I Club provides freight, demurrage and defence insurance (FD&D) that protects members’ interests and assets by supporting them to recover any proper claims for uninsured losses and/or to defend and resist any actions improperly brought against them, that fall within the remit of the club's rules.
In the dining room of the Singapore Club on 21 May 1946, to reinstate the Tanglin Club, an institution founded seventy-five years earlier as a premier establishment. The club reopened on 1 September 1946, with 182 Ordinary Members, including 127 pre-war registered members, 23 lady members and provision for up to 300 service members.
The Nordisk Defence Club (Norwegian: Nordisk Skibsrederforening) is the world’s largest independent FD&D club, and is operating worldwide. It was established in Copenhagen in 1889 and moved to Oslo in 1891. The invitation to Nordisk's founding meeting in Copenhagen said the purpose of the association would be “to work in the interest of the ...
A year later, in 1956, women were admitted as members for the first time. At a meeting on 11 February 1963, club president Sir George Oehlers proposed to open full membership to people of all communities in Singapore. This was agreed by a majority of members. As such the vision that SRC "will be an inter-racial club in Singapore" was fulfilled.
In February 1888, the corps was revived as the Singapore Volunteer Artillery, their motto being In Oriente Primus (First in the Far East), which is kept by the Singapore Artillery. It was the first unit in the British Empire, regular or auxiliary, to field the Maxim Gun , a fully-automatic machine-gun.
The Singapore Football League, commonly known as the SFL, is an FAS sanctioned football competition for clubs that are affiliated to the Football Association of Singapore. [1] It makes up the second and third tier of football in Singapore after the SPL and before the Singapore Island Wide League.
After the Japanese occupation of Singapore, the club's anti-Japanese agenda became redundant and it reverted being a club for social and business interaction once again. Its members were later active in the struggle for citizenship, voters' registration campaign and other philanthropic activities.
The unit was tasked with preparing 106 Fd Bty to relieve 108 Fd Bty in Singapore. 106 Fd Bty departed on 3 December 1971 and 108 Fd Bty returned to Australia on 14 December. Significantly, Tropical Cyclone Althea struck Townsville on Christmas Eve 1971, requiring over 100 soldiers to be recalled from leave to assist in the clean up.