Sally James, 16, who lives in Tenby, the daughter of Richard James and the late Lindsay James, recently travelled to London to receive the 2017 Peregrine Trophy for winning a Sea Cadets photo competition.

AC Sally from Tenby Unit, the Sea Cadet amateur open category award winner, said: “I took the winning photo when I was away in October on board TS Royalist. I was out on the dinghy and my job was to sort out the jib sheet, but we got told to wait for a bit. Our bosun took her GoPro out and started taking pictures, so I decided to join her and wrapped my camera around my wrist and started taking shots. I then put my camera back in my pocket without looking at the pictures and carried on working on the jib sheet.

“When we came off the bowsprit and moored later that evening, I checked my camera and that was the only picture that wasn’t blurry, so I was really happy with that! I honestly would never have thought that I would win this amazing award, especially out of all the sea cadets throughout the UK. It’s an honour.”

Sally won a paid trip to London for the awards ceremony and an offshore voyage!