The 1805 Dispatches #22.01 February 2022 5 of 5 THE 1805 CLUB Founded in 1990, the Club: • Promotes research into and education about the Royal Navy, merchant maritime service and other state navies of the same era; and • 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 • Organises relevant cultural, historical and social events. The Club is charity No. 1071871, registered in England and Wales. Individuals desiring further information may contact: Stephen Howarth, Hon. Club Secretary, The 1805 Club Shelton Great Barn, Shelton, Notts, NG23 5JQ, UK Email: secretary@1805club.org Telephone: 01949 851805. 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: Harold E (Pete) Stark, Hon US Secretary, The 1805 Club 1980 Scotts Crossing Way, No. 002, Annapolis MD 21401 USA Email: the.americas.membership.secretary@1805club.org Telephone: 410-269-9760 (mobile) Or: Mark Billings, Hon Canadian Secretary, The 1805 Club 4000 Marlowe Avenue, Montreal, Quebec H4A 3M2 Canada Email: canadian.membership.secretary@1805club.org 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 1805Club 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 inThe Kedge Anchor, the sixmonthly 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 of�icial position of The 1805 Club on any subject unless speci�ically 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-speci�ic 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’ Pipe down – A pipe call meaning: 1. the crew to come down from aloft, or 2. the crew to turn in, or 3. the crew are no longer needed until further orders, or 4. to be silent; hence, seamen’s slang for shutting up. FOTHERING, frighten, frothing, hefting, fighter, foreign, righten, genitor, trigone, finger, fringe, fêting, forget, hoeing, hogtie, ignore, region, toeing, goitre, fright, throng, trigon, feign, grief, forge, gofer, hinge, neigh, eight, thegn, goeth, reign, tinge, tiger, goner, negro, ergot, fight, gonif, grift, hongi, night, thing, girth, right, thong, groin, ingot, tigon, griot, gite, gone, gent, ergo, goer, gore, ogre, frig, gift, frog, nigh, goth, grin, ring, ting, giro, girt, grit, trig, tong, grot, trog SHIP’S WORD WHEEL ANSWERS Weather is but one factor that influences maritime affairs. That was especially so in the age of sailing navies. A research project led by the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council is seeking people to help complete weather records back to the 1780s. The GloSAT project wants volunteers to transcribe handwritten meteorological records from the logbooks of ships and weather stations and from weather diaries. It is part of the online Zooniverse citizen science platform. The aim is to fill in gaps of knowledge about past weather in order to help improve knowledge of changes in the Earth’s climate since the start of the Industrial Revolution. The image is a fairly typical logbook image, from which the data needs to be extracted. A slightly laborious task, but worthwhile, and consquently satisfying. At the time of writing, your Editor had completed over a hundred logbooks, which have 24 barometric entries – each logbook took about two minutes. Some tasks are simpler and quicker. For details see https:// www.zooniverse.org/projects/pteleti/weather-rescue-at-sea GEORGIAN WEATHER AT SEA A question about The Kedge Anchor: Does anybody ever attempt to do the crossword? If just one member tells the Editor that they like it, it will continue because it is fun, for him. This is just a brief reminder that we intend the spring 2022 edition of The Kedge Anchor (due out mid-April 2022) to have the theme, ‘Feeding The Navy’. This will cover all matters arising from the production, delivery and consumption of comestibles and materials. In other words, feeding the men and the machines and how their ‘feed’ arrives aboard. This theme is too ambitious to be adequately covered in one edition, so we expect it to expand into the future. The only way KAcan be produced is if The 1805 Club members and their friends produce usable copy. So, please set to and prepare your article for inclusion next time. It is preferred that you let the Editor know what is coming, but he is always very happy to receive surprises.
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