Ian Martin, the founder of Vimart, served on HMS Hermes with 800 squadron during the Falklands conflict in 1982 and made tape recordings of the Tannoy announcements. Ian was recently interviewed by the Daily Telegraph as part of their Falklands 25th Anniversary coverage, you can listen to the interview by clicking on the Telegraph link to the right.

The original tannoy recording are now available by clicking the Tapes link above. More sound clips will be made available on Vimart over the next few weeks so keep checking back!

Welcome to Vimart - the place where you can search for those long lost Royal Navy, Army or Royal Air Force mates. The Vimart website contains many thousands of easily searched entries and is designed to work with a minimum of information, you can find those elusive friends even if you never knew their proper names!

For the past 6 years Vimart has been totally free and Vimart remains free to register, free to add your entries and free if someone contacts you. Compare this with other sites that charge both parties a fee of up to £7.50 and make you pay before you know who wants to contact you! We have introduced a small fee for searches but you will be able to contact people for 20p or less! With Vimart there are no membership fees, no standing orders and no other costs!

With Vimart there are no cluttered screens, no adverts, just people from your past waiting to be found. Your email address will not be revealed to anyone unless you choose to disclose it yourself.

For further details on Vimart or how the site works please see Info and F.A.Q. To experience the wonder that is Vimart click the logon - it's free!

Ian Martin Royal Navy 1964 - 1989

Established May 2000