My day started with a fantastic tour on HMS Dauntless at the PSP Southampton boat show 2010.
Charlotte, the HMS Dauntless weapons officer, Charlotte or Ma'am, met us and escorted us onboard. HMS Dauntless is the second ship of the Type 45 class of air defence destroyer (AAW) built for the Royal Navy (also known as the Daring or 'D' class).

She is an amazing, modern ship with the latest technology and is only a year old now. All her crew are very proud to be serving onboard her.
The whole ship is constructed around her 5 ton golf ball radar, which rotates when at sea. This globe is one of the new types of radar, it never takes its eyes off you!
She is the most modern, highly equipped destroyer in the Navy with spare empty rooms ready to take new technology that hasn’t even been designed yet!

HMS Dauntless has several action stations, just in case one goes down, the next can be used complete with shock absorber floors a crew proud and dedicated to serve her. She cost approximately 1.2 billion and a massive 75% of that is weapon technology.

Her stealth features are so impressive that when you see her on radar she’ll look the size of a fishing boat and you’ll never know what’s out there until it’s too late.
Walking around the ship whilst she was preparing to leave for sea in a few hours it was hugely evident that all her crew were working away, efficiently and quietly.

Later that day just before Boatshed’s famous fizz@five drinks party, Geoff Holt came to the Boatshed.com stand BO53 to encourage people to come to a movie that his friend had made. The 80 minute film was a documentary of Jeremy Gilley (an old school friend of Geoffs and film maker) He has been campaigning for a 24 hours of peace in one day.

For the last 10 years Jeremy Gilley had been working in his mums spare room, setting up his campaigns with world leaders for this one day of peace. It’s an epic rollercoaster of relentless struggle to achieve Peace for one day world wide always on the 21st of September. It has taken years to get off the ground, and peace one day is building momentum. In 2009 a cease fire meant that over 1.5 million children could be vaccinated against Polio and other diseases.

In 1999, preoccupied with questions about the fundamental nature of humanity and the most pressing issues of our time, filmmaker Jeremy Gilley launched Peace One Day and set out to find a starting point for peace. He had a mission: to document his efforts to establish the first ever annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence with a fixed calendar date.

Remarkably, two years on, he achieved his primary objective when the 192 member states of the United Nations unanimously adopted 21 September as an annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence on the UN International Day of Peace. We call that day Peace Day.

The UN International Day of Peace on 21 September every year is not only about creating peace between nations, it’s about non-violence in our homes, communities and schools. Therefore Peace Day is relevant to every human being on the planet.

Now the next major objective is to introduce 3 billion people to Peace Day by 2012. To do it, we need the help of all people regardless of age, race, nationality, religion or gender; people who are willing to stand up for peace.

Peace One day Mission

Peace One Day looks to engage all sectors of society, including governments, organisations of the United Nations system, regional and non-governmental organisations and individuals in observance of 21 September, through the practical manifestation of non-violence and ceasefire in accordance with UN GA Resolution 55/282, and encourage action on Peace Day that creates a united and sustainable world.

What will you be doing on this day and how can you help?