The 1805 Dispatches #21.04 August 2021 2of 5 SHIP’S WORD WHEEL Take a ten minute break and �ind 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 nineletter word to be found. 15 = Average 20=Good 30 = Amazing Answers on page 4 Save the date: New York City Pickle Night, Virtual Event Friday, November 5, 2021 JointheAmerican Friends of the National Museum of the Royal Navy in commemorating the historic journey in 1805 of Her Majesty’s Schooner Pickle, bringing news from Trafalgar to London of Nelson’s death and the victory at the Battle of Trafalgar. This year marks the 216th anniversary of the history-making Battle of Trafalgar and the 16th New York City Pickle Night Event. Commemorate these signi�icant events in a special online gathering. This digital trip will take us to Portsmouth, England, and will be �illed with surprises. Registration and details can be found on our website at www.AFNMRN.org. Advance registration is required. For inquiries, please email info@afnmrn.org or call our New York headquarters at +1 (212) 8401166. The American Friends of the National Museum of the Royal Navy is a registered US tax exempt organisation. Image: “I Have Urgent Dispatches”, by Gordon Frickers. Regular readers will recall that in the previous edition of The1805 Dispatches we announced the, then, forthcoming sale by the Hoste family of medals and other items that once belonged to Captain Sir William Hoste KCB. The sale was a success, as this report from Morton and Eden demonstrates. The superb and exceptionally rare small naval gold medal for the Battle of Lissa in the Adriatic Sea in 1811, awarded to Captain Sir William Hoste K.C.B., RN, one of Admiral Lord Nelson’s most highly regarded protégés, fetched £120,000 at auctioneers Morton & Eden in London today (13 July 2021). The medal had been estimated to fetch £60,000-80,000 (lot 428). It was bought by an anonymous private collector bidding by telephone. David Kirk, the medal specialist at Morton and Eden, said: “We are delighted for the family, and we feel that this result does real justice to what is, without doubt, a superb medal. Captain Sir William Hoste was an extremely important naval �igure, as well as being a protégé and friend of Nelson.” If anyone is unfamiliar with Capt. Hoste, please see the autumn edition of theKedge Anchor, in which we intend that he will be featured. ADMIRAL LORD NELSON'S PROTÉGÉ'S GOLD MEDAL SELLS FOR £120,000 AT AUCTION HMSUnicornhas been a feature of Dundee, Scotland, since 1873, half a century after she was built at Chatham Dockyard in Kent. The former training ship has weathered many storms, including almost being scrapped in the 1960s, but 200 years of exposure to the elements, including the wind and rain lashing the survey team today, has left its mark. Surveyors are inspecting every section of one of the world's oldest ships as part of a major conservation project that will see the ship moved to a nearby dry dock in the next fewyears. Shipwright Dominic Mills, from surveyors T Nielsen & Co, said, "Generally, on the starboard side, which is what we're surveying at the moment, it's not great, and most of the planking is in a very poor state." Lady Catherine Erskine, who chairs the UnicornPreservation Society, said it was "vitally important" to know exactly where the ship's problems were ahead of its move to the nearby East Graving Dock. She said it was a "crying shame" that the ship has not had the recognition it deserves. She said: "I think everybody in Britain knows theVictory, and they know of theMaryRose. "Well, theUnicornis of such signi�icance.” HMS UNICORN PRESERVATION GETS UNDER WEIGH IN DUNDEE.
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