The 1805 Dispatches #25.01 February 2025 8 of 8 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 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 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 timespeci�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! 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 sailingnavy era; and ·Organises relevant cultural, historical and social events. The Club is charity No. 1201272, registered in England and Wales. Individuals desiring further information may contact: Stephen Howarth, Hon. Club Secretary, The 1805 Club Shelton, Notts, UK Email: secretary@1805club.org For a membership application form please contact: Dr Sue Carr, Hon. Membership Secretary, The 1805 Club London, UK Email: membership.secretary@1805club.org Or: Harold E (Pete) Stark, Hon US Secretary, The 1805 Club Annapolis, MD, USA Email: the.americas.membership.secretary@1805club.org Telephone: 410-269-9760 (mobile) Or: Mark Billings, Hon Canadian Secretary, The 1805 Club Montreal, Quebec, Canada Email: canadian.membership.secretary@1805club.org Telephone: 1-514-296-1641 Peter Turner, Editor of The Kedge Anchor Aldeburgh, Suffolk, UK Email: ka.editor@1805club.org Telephone: +(44) 7903 251008 Ufford, Suffolk, UK Lightship, lightish, ship-it, pistil, plight, slight, spilth, light, sigil, slept, spilt, split, gilt, hili, hilt, lisp, list, pili, silt, slip, slit, tile Cleat - 1. A device of wood or metal with two arms, fixed at various places around the ship, to which falls or other ropes can be made fast by taking it in turns around the arms. 2. Wooden wedges on the yards to prevent sail earrings from slipping off, hence Cleats – Seamen’s’ expression for big ears. (With a nod and thanks to Walt Disney Productions) NAVAL TERMS THAT HAVE ‘COME ASHORE’ SHIP’S WORD WHEEL ANSWERS Another discovery is the website of the Journal of Military and Veterans’ Health, under the umbrella of the Australian Military Medicine Association. https://jmvh.org/article/georgian-naval-warfareships-and-medicine-1714-1815/ A taste of this website can be appreciated from this extract . . . “Introduction Previous articles in this series describe the development of a cycle from prehistory to the end of the Elizabethan period, whereby increasing trade necessitated larger and more efficient ships to transport merchandise and better weapons to defend or attack them, thereby facilitating further trading oppor-tunities. However, it was not until the 18th century that Western medicine had developed sufficiently for its role as an enabler of this cycle to be recognised, thereby making possible—among other things—the European settlement of Australia. While the technical developments in ships, weapons and medicine often developed independently in multiple regions worldwide, they remained closely linked throughout Western history. This article continues this series by describing the developments in naval warfare, ships and medicine during the British Georgian period from 1714 to 1815. An article filling the gap in this series regarding the Stuart period (16031714) has been submitted for publishing in due course. Georgian naval warfare By 1714, England (Great Britain following its union with Scotland in 1707) had been at war with France more-or-less continuously for 25 years. These and the long and costly conflicts that followed were largely funded by Britain’s transoceanic maritime trade, which had begun with the establishment of the East India Company in 1600, followed by the acquisition of colonies in North America from 1607 and the Caribbean from 1655. English victories at sea during the 1690s limited French access to its own colonies from the Atlantic, while the capture of Gibraltar in 1704 did likewise from the Mediterranean. This meant Britain could further expand its trade, thereby funding its wartime armies and those of its European allies while simultaneously bankrupting their opponents. Despite losing its American colonies in 1783, Britain used this strategy to maintain its economic and maritime supremacy from 1815 until the early 1900s.7 However, this would not have been possible without finally controlling the occasionally universal rates of what would now be referred to as Disease and NonBattle Injuries (DNBI) that had been experienced by the English and their Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and French competitors since the mid-to-late 15th century.” GEORGIAN NAVAL WARFARE, SHIPS AND MEDICINE 1714–1815 By Neil Westphalen
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