HMS Sultan (establishment)
- HMS Sultan (establishment)
HMS "Sultan" is a shore base of the Royal Navy in Gosport, Hampshire, UK.
Formerly Royal Naval Air Station HMS Siskin, HMS Sultan is now the head quarters of the Defence College of Electro-Mechanical Engineering (DCEME) and has overall control of teaching engineering to all three branches of the UK Armed Forces. It is also the home of the Royal Naval School of Marine Engineering (RNSME) and the Royal Naval Air Engineering and Survival School (RNAESS) whose primary function is to supply the Fleet with engineering Officers and Ratings of the highest quality. Spare training capacity is sold on to foreign Navies and British industry in the form of courses and apprenticeships.
Also housed at HMS "Sultan" are the Admiralty Interview Board, the instrument of Officer selection for the Royal Navy and Royal Marines; the Central Air and Admiralty Medical Board (CAAMB); the Naval Aircrew Advisory Board (NAAB) and Centurion Building belonging to the Service Personnel & Veterans Agency (SPVA). HMS "Sultan" also provides the RN's survival, ship husbandry and environmental training.
ee also
* List of Royal Navy shore establishments
External links
* [http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.3499 HMS Sultan history]
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