IT'S time to go back to Brian Knight's quest to find out more about a local Fleet Review in honour of the king, which he remembered from a very early age.

A newspaper article from Friday July 8 1932 previewed the special event in Weymouth Bay.

The Western Gazette report says: "Sixty ships under the command of Admiral Sir John Kelly will assemble in Weymouth Bay.

"They will include Nelson and Rodney the most powerful battleships afloat, battlecruisers headed by Hood and Renown, light cruisers, destroyers, submarines and aircraft carriers.

"It will be a remarkable sight. The town had planned a big programme of gala events.

"On Monday and Tuesday nights the ships will give searchlight displays and this should affect a striking combination with the belt of coloured lamps that stretches right across the wide sweep of the Esplanade.

"There are five flag officers and one Commodore in the Home Fleet and the complete personnel totals about 17,000 officers and men."

There was some element of confusion about exactly which review was which, because there were many local fleet reviews in the 1930s.

We were delighted to hear from C.K. House of Preston, Weymouth, who remembers a review of the fleet in Weymouth Bay as a five-year-old.

C.H. House wrote: "l recalled that l had seen a column of cars proceeding through Hope Square in Weymouth, probably conveying the King. "At the age of 84, l can still picture the scene."

It would seem as though a diagram we published in Looking Back on April 11 was most helpful as it jogged the memory of C.K. House.

"From the information published, it would now seem that the review l saw, was the latter one, because the line-up of the ships in the diagram, dated August 9 1939, s just as l remember it. "

"So, hopefully, Mr Brian Knight has solved his puzzle."

Brian Knight visited the Echo office to say how grateful he was for all the information from Looking Back readers.

He said: "It's been helpful to have all this information. I never expected this much of a reaction to my request."

*Thanks also go to Edna Gilbert of Weymouth for bringing in a copy of the Coronation Souvenir 1937 book, from which we can see this photo of King Edward boarding the submarine Narwhal in Portland Harbour in 1936.

In the King's speech, he said: "I have a great feeling for Portland because I left the Navy here as a midshipman and I haven't actually been aboard a ship moored in Portland Harbour since that time. Today, my times as a midshipman, when I served as an active officer, came back vividly to me."