The 1805 Dispatches #21.01 February 2021 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. 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’ Toe the line – Originally used when the ship’s company were mustered, when each sailor would step forward to a line marked on the deck and then give his name and place of duty on board. Ashore it has come to denote a recognition of authority and a willingness to obey the rules. ACADEMITE, academe, acetamide, acme, admit, aimed, amid, amide, came, dame, decimate, deem, deme, demit, dime, edam, edema, (US), emaciate, emaciated, emetic, epic, emit, idem, item, mace, made, made, maid, matai, mate, mated, mead, meat, media, mediae, mediate, medic, medicate, meed, meet, mete, meted, metic, mica, mice, mite, tame, tamed, teamed, teem, time, timed. 25=Good, 35 = Excellent, 45 = Amazing SHIP’S WORD WHEEL ANSWERS We are past that time when members need to confirm their membership, by paying their membership subscription. If you have any doubts, then please check with Barry Scrutton that you have paid and are in good standing. The Nevis Historical & Conservation Society is one of the Partners of The 1805 Club, and we are delighted to see, in their latest newsletter (Go To NHCS News) that the “Society takes the lead in replanting native species in the wetland where Admiral Horatio Nelson once brought his ships for fresh water.” In the same newsletter is a reminder that the MV Christena sinking (readers of KA will recall an article in the latest edition) is still very alive in memories onNevis. And also a reminder that Nelson’s Wedding Anniversary is 11 March. The marriage may not have been the most successful, but that should not prevent us from raising a glass on what was, at the time, a happy occasion. Nelson's seal from HMS Agamemnon Mark West first tipped us off about these items: Nelson's seal from HMS Agamemnon (64) will be among treasures for sale in Uruguay after a two-decade legal battle. The money raised by the items will be split between Montevideo and the heirs of the diver, Héctor Bado, who found them. The auction is to be held in Montevideo in May, so we will follow this up in the next edition of TD, and in the spring KA. Etcetera Well preserved leather pouches and other artifacts have been recovered from the wreck of HMS Apollo (38), off Texel, where she was beached in 1799.
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