The 1805 Dispatches #20.02 August 2020 4 of 5 THE 1805 CLUB The 1805 Club was founded in 1990 and broadly: • Promotes and engages in the preservation of monuments and memorials relating to the Royal Navy and seafaring people of the later sailing-navy era; and • Promotes research into and education about the Royal Navy, merchant maritime service and other state navies of the same era; and • Organises relevant cultural, historical and social events. The Club is charity No. 1071871, registered in England and Wales. Individuals desiring further information may contact: John Curtis, Hon. Club Secretary, The 1805Club 9 Brittains Lane, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 2JN,UK Email: secretary@1805club.org Telephone: 01732 453176. For a membership application details please contact: Barry Scrutton, Hon. Membership Secretary, The 1805 Club 1 Cambus Road, London, E16 4AY, UK Email:membership.secretary@1805club.org Telephone: 020 7476 1215; Or: Capt. John A. Rodgaard (USN Ret.) Hon. North American Secretary, The 1805 Club 6089 Guildhall Court, Burke, Virginia 22015 USA Email: john_Rodgaard@yahoo.com; Telephone: 1-321-591-6123. Or: Mark Billings, Hon Canadian Secretary, The 1805 Club 4000 Marlowe Avenue, Montreal, Quebec H4A 3M2 Canada Email: mark@marengomgt.com Telephone: 1-514-296-1641 Visit our website: www.1805club.org Or see us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Or to join go to: Join The 1805 Club The Newsletter for Anyone Interested in The 1805 Club PURPOSE. The purpose of this newsletter is to support and advance the Club’s objectives. The newsletter provides anyone who is interested with brief items of news about the club and its activities, in the hope that the it can help the club attract wider interest in naval history and new members. Much of the content will be a précis of articles that will appear in The Kedge Anchor, the six-monthly club magazine. EDITORIAL POLICY. The editor has full editorial responsibility for the newsletter. Views expressed in the newsletter are those of individual authors, unless claimed by the editor. Articles which appear do not express the official position of The 1805 Club on any subject unless specifically noted as such. Content of contributions to the newsletter may be edited for grammar, space allocation, or to better serve the purpose of the newsletter. Contributors wishing to be alerted to editorial decisions should notify the editor at the time that their contribution is submitted. Otherwise the submission will be published within the scope of the editorial policy. ISSUE AND COPY DATES The proposed issue dates for The 1805 Dispatches are: February, April, June, August, October and December. Anyone wishing to contribute an article or news item to the editor for inclusion in the newsletter should do so by the beginning of the month preceding the issue in which it is to be inserted. Any articles that are not time-specific can be submitted at any time, with a note advising him of that fact. All copy is welcome, but not all copy may be used! Diary Dates Date Event NOTE: THIS TABLE WILL NOT BE USED FOR ANNIVERSARIES, ONLY FOR EVENTS. CONSEQUENTLY, FOR WELLKNOWN REASONS, IT IS CURRENTLY ‘RESTING’. BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS Jamie Goodall, Pirates of Chesapeake Bay: From the Colonial Era to the Oyster Wars. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781467141161, Paperback, 160 pages and 19 images. £12.80 https://www.amazon.co.uk/PiratesChesapeake-Bay-Colonial-Oyster/dp/ 146714116X The Chesapeake Bay was a notable haven of pirates, piracy, and smuggling from the middle 1600s through the early 1960s. Jamie Goodall, in this slim volume, strives to present a useful overview of this period of activity and does a good job of it. Antony Adler, Neptune’s Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 256 pages. £28.75 https://www.amazon.com/NeptunesLaboratory-Antony-Adler/dp/0674972015/ ref+nodl_ Antony Adler’s book, Neptune’s Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear and Science at Sea, is a brilliant catalogue of the power that water has as a medium of imagined liberty for cultures anchored to the dead weights of war and the nation state. NAVAL TERMS THAT HAVE ‘COME ASHORE’ Cat – The cat-o‘-nine-tails was an instrument of punishment comprising nine rope ‘tails’ on a handle, with which recalcitrants were flogged. If knotted it was called a thieves’ cat. Two expressions came ashore, the first from the practice of storing the cat in a red baize bag – when the cat was let out of the bag retribution was imminent. The other expression to come ashore is the expression that there is hardly room to swing a cat, in a cramped space. BRITANNIC, acini, actin, antic, artic, cabin, cant, canti, carb, cart, crab, cran, crib, crit, inca, incant, narc, niacin, nitric, ricin, tannic, triac. 10 = Good, 15 = Excellent, 20 = Amazing SHIP’S WORD WHEEL ANSWERS
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