5 of 7 February 2024 The 1805 Dispatches #24.01 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT THE 1805 CLUB ONLINE SHOP NOW HAS SECONDHAND BOOKS FOR SALE From time to time Club members have needed to reduce their libraries and have decided to donate their relevant surplus books to The 1805 Club. A very kind and generous thought, but the stockpile of books, without any Club storage facilities, became a bit of a quandary. But, no longer! A team of volunteers have catalogued the books and are starting to list them on the Club Shop (https://www.1805club.org/shop), with details and an image of each book. Some of the books are more valuable than others and an attempt to price them competitively with internet sources has proven to be fraught with irregularities (not with us, with all the online sources!), so we have decided that a standard price of £10.00 per book will be charged, covering the cost of p&p in the UK. Books sent overseas will have to be charged a suitable fee for p&p that will be identified at the point of sale. Some buyers will get a bargain, and all buyers will be contributing to this fund-raising scheme, to enable the Club to fulfill its objectives as a charity and tackle new conservation and commemorative projects. In addition to the book listing, the Club is in negotiation with organisations that will stock our books and send them off as instructed by us, when purchased. We do not yet know how this will all be resolved, but in the meantime you are able to buy any of the books listed and we volunteers will send them off to you. Happy and Enthusiastic Shopping! Kathy Brown in the centre is the ringleader and the manager of the Club Shop, together with The Trafalgar Way and much other stuff. On her right is Gillian Knight, our former Education Secretary. On Kathy’s left is Ed (Peter Turner). This picture, by Geoff Brown, was taken at our preChristmas meeting at Kathy’s house in Salisbury, to thrash out our course of action. (The cheese, biscuits, mince pies and cakes were delicious!) Above left: On Monday 4 December five members of The 1805 Club attended the monthly luncheon for the New York chapter of the Naval Order of the US in the New York City Racket Club. Pictured here L-R: Dr. Judy Pearson, Admiral Joe Callo (USN-Ret), Captain Sally McElwreath (USN-Ret), Chairman John Rodgaard (Capt USN, Ret), and Cdr John Cupschalk (USN-Ret), chapter commander. They are with Ms. Birchie Green (in gold jacket) the guest speaker; President Emeritus of the National Maritime Historical Society. Above right: The 1805 Club lunch on Saturday, 16 Dec, at Il Porto in Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia. The names, clockwise from the top right, are: Catherine Lincoln, Pamela Prevar, Mary Frances Gibbon, Peter Pennington, Chris Kurtz, Judy Pearson, John Prevar, Ralph Day, and John Rodgaard. FYI Mary Frances and Pamela are not members - they are spouses. We shared a bit of holiday cheer. (Photos Judy Pearson) U.S. MEMBERS LUNCHING Digital map of maritime European Asia-Pacific expeditions, 1768 to 1834 This website is a collaboration between James Cook University and the Queensland Museum Network, involves historians, coral taxonomists, archaeologists, anthropologists, and environmental scientists in mapping and analysing European scientific expeditions that left Europe for the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1834. https://expeditionstothepacific.org/ PACIFIC OCEAN MAP
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