Naval Leadership in the Age of Sail (1750–1840)
Friday 2nd December 2011 – Saturday 3rd December 2011

The 1805 Club is a partner and sponsor of a three-year programme of naval historical conferences, which started this December in Portsmouth, UK. The conferences are about Naval Leadership in the Age of Sail and are truly international in terms of their speakers. The conferences also inaugurated the annual Colin White Memorial Lecture. The sponsors are: The Society for Nautical Research, The 1805 Club, the National Museum of the Royal Navy (with its link to the Friends of the Royal Naval Museum), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and Cosejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain, and The Gunroom–HMS Surprise.

The Introductory Lecture by Peter Warwick, Chair of The 1805 Club is now available on-line.

The other conference papers will be available on-line in due course.

Trafalgar Dinner
Saturday 22nd October 2011

The 1805 Club’s Trafalgar Dinner at Newhouse, Redlynch, nr Salisbury, Wiltshire. The evening included a talk by Dr Sam Willis on ‘The Fighting Temeraire’, firework display, candlelit dinner and the Immortal Memory given by Admiral Sir Jonathon Band, GCB DL.

Wreath Laying
Friday 21st October 2011

First Sea Lord’s wreath laying at Nelson’s tomb, St Paul’s Cathedral.

The Victory Medal Weekend
Saturday 6th August 2011 – Sunday 7th August 2011

This was a joint event with The Society for Nautical Research and The 1805 Club to visit HMS Trincomalee in Hartlepool and the Captain Cook Memorial Museum in Whitby.

AGM, Members’ Day and Cecil Isaacson Memorial Lecture
Saturday 7th May 2011

The AGM, Members’ Day and Cecil Isaacson Memorial Lecture this year were held at the University of Greenwich Old Royal Naval College.

Launch of the Nile and Copenhagen Captains’ Memorial
Thursday 17th March 2011

The reception at Kensington Town Hall on Thursday, 17th March 2011 launched the fundraising campaign for the Nile and Copenhagen Captains’ Memorial. It was made possible by the very kind permission of the Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, by DBR (London) Limited, the award winning company providing a full range of masonry conservation and repair services for historic buildings, including Nelson’s Column, Trafalgar Square and the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich; and by Past Pleasures whose play-let on the Battle of the Nile was performed free of charge. The 1805 Club would like to thank them for their wonderful support. We should also like to thank the Marine Society and Sea Cadets for its enthusiastic participation. The evening raised over £3,000.