The 1805 Dispatches #20.04 December 2020 4 of 4 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. Contact details: John Curtis, Hon. Club Secretary, The 1805 Club 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 Despatches 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! NAVAL TERMS THAT HAVE ‘COME ASHORE’ Swinging the lead – Seamen’s slang (Jackspeak) for feigning sickness or not pulling one’s weight, from the actions of a lazy leadsman, who would stand and swing the lead, which was the easy bit, before casting it and then having to haul it back. CELESTIAL, acts, caste, castle, celesta, cellist, celt, cist, cite, clast, cleat, east, eats, eclat, elastic, elate, elect, elects, elite, etic, ictal, illest, islet, laciest, last, late, lati, least, leat, leet, lest, lilt, list, lite, sallet, salt, sate, scat, seat, sect, select, seta, setae, setal, silt, site, sitella, slat, slate, sleet, slit, stale, stall, steal, steel, stela, stelae, stellia, stile, still, tael, tail, taille, talc, tale, tali, tallies, teal, tease, teasel, tees, tell, tells, tesla, tali, ties, tile, tiles, till. 40=Good, 65 = Excellent, 80 = Amazing SHIP’S WORD WHEEL ANSWERS We are fast approaching that time when members need to confirm their membership, by paying their membership subscription and, without naming names, this seems to be a conundrum to some. The concept is not difficult to most. NEWS SNIPPETS Leading Cadet Shaun of GDR Sea Cadet Unit has been made The First Sea Lord’s Cadet for The London Area in 2021. This is a first for GDR Sea Cadets and well timed. 2020 was their Centenary year, but almost everything had to be postponed to 2021. The GDR Unit are very good for parading at Greenwich events for us like The Immortal Memory. Sadly, National Sea Cadets Christmas Carols here in The ORNC Chapel cannot take place this December. They are normally a wonderful start to Christmas. ––––––– An amusing follow-up from member Andrew Welch, to our article on FitzRoy in the current Kedge Anchor: when Andrew served onHMS Beagle in the early 1970s, on the Seychelles survey, the ship’s two survey boats were known as Darwin and FitzRoy. ––––––– The Government have given Highways England approval for The proposed Stonehenge Tunnel, on the A303, near The Nile Clumps. We were assured by Highways England, on our last visit to The Nile Clumps in August 1st 2018, that The Eastern Portal of the tunnel will not impact on L’Orient. Since confirmed in writing. ––––––– The Chaplaincy Council has agreed to the proposal for a commemorative plaque to Admiral Sir William Cornwallis to be installed in St Ann’s church, within HM Naval Base Portsmouth. Rev Adam Gray, incumbent vicar, will now present this decision to the Archdeacon, who has the final say, which we hope to hear soon.
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