HMS Quorn

Military experience

Lieutenant Commander Simon Rogers grew up and was educated in Sussex. He graduated from the University of Wales with an Honours Degree in History prior to joining Britannia Royal Naval College in April 1997 as a Warfare Officer. Initial training appointments included HMS Brave, HMS Quorn and a BOST and APT(N) deployment in HMS Sheffield.

Selected as a small ship navigator, he joined HMS Cromer in 1999 conducting two MCMFOR(N) deployments including a transit of the Norwegian inner leads north of the Arctic circle before taking the Ship to disposal. Further watchkeeping followed in HMS Chatham as Senior Officer Of the Watch and Communications Officer. During this time he completed a Gulf deployment and OP TELIC in 2003 where HMS Chatham conducted NGS in support of the Al Faw landings. This was followed by a short Intelligence appointment at FOSNNI before an OPTOUR in Iraq as the Operations Officer of the RN Team responsible for training the Inland Waterways Police.

After further sea time in HMS Grafton, attendance at the Initial Command and Staff Course and successfully completing the Principal Warfare Officers’ (PWO) Course, he joined HMS Ocean as the PWO(CEW) in 2006. His short time on board included OP VELA, an amphibious deployment to West Africa and another APT(N) deployment during which he acted as the Operations Officer.

He then joined HMS Cumberland as the Operations Officer in 2007 bringing her out of refit, through BOST and on to a deployment as part of SNMG2. This included a large scale NATO certification exercise in the Mediterranean and NATO’s first Counter Piracy deployment East of Suez.

Appointed to FOST(S) in early 2009 as SWO(CEW) he was responsible for delivering warfare training to Command teams across a wide variety of RN and foreign platforms. For the second of his two years at FOST(S) he assumed the role of SWO(CMST) with responsibility for coordinating mobile sea training on CMST’s behalf.

He took Command of MCM 2 Crew 4 in HMS Hurworth in August 2011, and has now taken Command of HMS Quorn currently based in Bahrain.