5 of 7 December 2023 The 1805 Dispatches #23.06 Remember that there is a whole treasure trove here https://www.facebook.com/ The1805Club/ SHIP’S WORD WHEEL Take a ten-minute break and find 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 by adding an ‘s’ or ‘es’), no foreign words not in common usage in English, nor proper nouns. There is at least one nine-letter word to be found. 35 = Average; 55 = Good; 75 = Amazing! Answers on last page With the occasional help of departing Club Vice Chairman, Geraint, Club members’ photos of Georgian era related matters are happily shown, as the following illustrates from his recent trip to Norway: During the Napoleonic Wars, in 1809 the town of Hammerfest in Norway was attacked by two Royal Navy warships. The town was then occupied for a week and everything considered valuable was looted or destroyed. In response, the next year the Norwegians built a battery of guns to defend Hammerfest. These three photographs show a commemorative notice to mark those events, plus a view of part of the remains of the fortifications. Destruction of the town, classified nowadays as the northernmost town in Norway, was repeated in 1944 when the Germans burned it down when retreating towards the end of World War II. ——— On a more peaceful Georgian era topic, not far from the fort is a UNESCO registered monument marking one of the key sites of accurately surveying the size and shape of the Earth along a long arc of a meridian. It was one of over 250 survey triangulations carried out from 1816 to 1855 by the Baltic German astronomer Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve across ten countries. Reference https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1187/ NORTHERN NAPOLEONICS By Geraint Day, BSc (Hons) (Lond) PgCert Health Econ (Aberd) CGI 730 FE Teachers Cert ICD Co-operative Directors Cert FRAS FGS FBIS Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society MInstP Geraint was not the only traveller recently. Your Editor was schlepping around The Netherlands, visiting museums and galleries, which inevitably included the Scheepvaartmuseum (National Maritime Museum) in Amsterdam. Naturally, in common with all maritime museums, this one had many items that were of limited appeal to someone whose primary field of interest is the Napoleonic Period. This museum naturally had its focus on maritime trade. Once the arsenal of the Dutch Navy, the building was very well preserved and all the rooms visited were immaculately presented, as is often found with the Netherlanders. See page 6 for a few pictures. SCHEEPVAARTMUSEUM, AMSTERDAM By Peter Turner
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