The 1805 Dispatches #20.02 August 2020 2 of 5 This came from Mark Billings late in June. Greetings from Canada! I was in Old Montreal [in late June. Ed.], walking around in the blistering heat (35 degrees Celsius, 40 with humidex) with my family, and we came to the Nelson Column. Please find attached four pictures. In one of the pictures, from left to right, you have my son Darcy, my wife Nancy and my daughter Daphne. This column was erected in 1808 and was the first such memorial to Nelson outside the British Isles. I believe that it is the second-oldest Nelson monument in the world, only surpassed by the Nelson Monument in Glasgow. This is also the oldest monument in the city of Montreal and is the oldest war monument in Canada. Something to be proud of! On A Completely Different Subject Sam Hearn, a member of The 1805 Club, was once on the management team for the Historical Royal Palaces and based at Hampton Court Palace. Over a socially distanced beer [recently, with Bill White], he mentioned the Ketch NONSUCH, and has since sent the following e-mail: “Nonsuch was the ketch that sailed into Hudson Bay in 1668-1669 under Zachariah Gillam, in the first trading voyage for what was to become the Hudson's Bay Company two years later. Originally built as a merchant ship in 1650, and later the Royal Navy ketch HMS Nonsuch, the vessel was sold to Sir William Warren in 1667. The name means "none such", i.e. "unequalled". The ship was at the time considered smaller than many others but was specifically selected because of her small size so that when she arrived in Hudson Bay and James Bay she could be sailed up-river and taken out of water so the thick ice of the bay wouldn't crush her. A replica was later built [1968-1970] and sailed out into Hudson's Bay.” Readers will find more on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsuch_(1650_ship) and https://manitobamuseum.ca/main/visit/museum-galleries/ nonsuch-gallery/ We will try to pursue this matter. Meanwhile, here is an image of Nonsuch from the above Nonsuch Gallery website. Ed SHIP’S WORD WHEEL Take a ten-minute break and find as many words as possible, using the letters in the wheel. Each must use the hub letter and at least 3 others, used only once. No plurals (if only made with by adding an ‘s’ or ‘es’), no foreign words not in common usage in English, nor proper nouns. There is at least one nine-letter word to be found. (Answers on page 4) 2020 Coming Up InThe Kedge Anchor (1) One of the most important incidents prior to the Napoleonic Wars, that helped prepare Britain for war with France, and not be caught out, was the so-called Nootka Crisis. The Nootka Crisis was a political dispute between Great Britain and Spain, triggered by a series of events that took place during the summer of 1789 at Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada. The crisis involved British fur-trading vessels entering the area which Spain had laid claim to. Both sides prepared for a war which never came, but Britain was then ready for the French Revolutionary War soon after. An article enlarging on this will appear in The Kedge Anchor in the autumn.
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