The 1805 Dispatches #26.01 February 2026 7 of 7 The Newsletter for Anyone Interested in The 1805 Club 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 official position of The 1805 Club on any subject unless specifically 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-specific 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 Eyke, Suffolk, UK Parbuckle, palebuck, bluecap, breakup, plucker, puberal, purbeck, upbreak, apercu, backup, burlap, carpel, clupea, craple, culpae, curpel, packer, parcel, placer, pleura, pucker, puckle, repack, upbear, apure, becap, calpe, caper, caple, crape, culpa, cupar, cupel, lepra, pacer, paler, pareu, parle, pearl, perca, place, plack, pluck, pucer, pucka, puker, puler, pulka, recap, aper, bapu, bare, barp, burp, cape, carp, caup, clap, crap, earp, kelp, klap, leap, lerp, lupe, pace, pack, pale, pare, park, paul, peak, peal, pear, peba, peck, pela, pera, perk, perl, peru, peul, plea, pleb, plue, prau, prue, pube, puca, puce, puck, puer, puka, puke, pula, pule, pulk, pure, purl, rape, reap TO GO THROUGH THE HOOP To go through the hoop is to undergo an ordeal. From the old practice in some ships of passing hammocks through a hoop gauge to check that they were of uniform size and appearance before allowing them to be stowed in the hammock nettings. NAVAL TERMS THAT HAVE ‘COME ASHORE’ SHIP’S WORD WHEEL ANSWERS The sharp-eyed among you may have noticed that the Club Lead for every one of the events in the UK is Honorary Club Secretary Stephen Howarth. You will know that ‘Honorary’ means the job is entirely voluntary, and your Editor respectfully suggests that it is too much to expect one person to bear the total load of organising events. The 1805 Club is widespread, and would welcome any suggestions for relevant local events that could be of interest to other local members, and that could be organised by those local members. The Club would be happy to assist, and to publicise, any such events. EVAN WILSON'S SUBSTACK Here is an item that should fire up interest in many of our members. U.S. member Dr Evan Wilson is Associate Professor at the John B. Hattendorf Center for Maritime Historical Research at the US Naval College, Newport, Rhode Island. Evan regularly produces what he calls a 'Substack'. https://evanmwilson.substack.com In the spring edition of The Kedge Anchor a large extract will be published, in order to draw your attention to this interesting source. Meanwhile, a screenshot from Evan's webpage is hereunder, to whet your appetite.
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