3 Issue 45 – March 2016 THE KEDGE ANCHOR AMA DataSet Limited are pleased to be associated with both The Kedge Anchor and The 1805 Club. AMA DataSet Limited, 5 School Lane, Bamber Bridge, Preston PR5 6QD Telephone 01772 627534 www.ama.uk.com FROM THE EDITOR Efficient business planning plays a significant part in any organisation that is to continue to be successful. For the Club to remain financially robust it is important to retain continuity. Council have formed a sub-group of council members with the expertise to achieve its long term stability. One measure has been a careful review of its publications and in part, how we deliver The Kedge Anchor. The magazine will maintain much the same layout but move to two issues per year, to be published in March and September. Each edition will increase from forty pages to forty eight. This will achieve considerable savings in publication and postage costs while retaining its greater value as a recognised newsletter and journal. Other plans are being made to update the Club website, funding the education programme and a rethink on its conservation policy for the long term benefit without the need for ‘returning’ conservation. The future conservation projects; improvements to the website; the importance of our North American membership; the future for The Trafalgar Way; the development of the educational programmes, and the question of cash flow not least because the current cycle of the worthwhile Topman Scheme is drawing to a close. It is my wish that the Topman scheme will be invigorated and that those who can renew their pledge will do so and be joined by new Topmen. We look forward to reporting on all of these issues in full at the AGM during the Members’ Day on Saturday 14 May. This year we are in Portsmouth at HMS NELSON Wardroom and may I remind members that they are very welcome, nay encouraged, to bring guests in order to introduce them to the Club. The Cecil Isaacson Memorial Lecture is being given by James Davey, Curator of Naval History at the National Maritime Museum. The United Wards’ Club of the City of London, is holding its annual President’s weekend at Portsmouth and working in close association with them we are delighted, thanks to our membership secretary Barry Scrutton (United Wards’ President in 2016!) to offer members many optional additional attractions that give you the opportunity to maximise your visit to Portsmouth, including the Historic Dockyard, HMS NELSON Wardroom and Fort Nelson. With all good wishes, Yours aye, Peter Warwick, Chairman Please note the next edition is due in September. The deadline for copy will therefore be 21 August 2016. We will be pleased to receive your ideas and contributions at an early date. North American secretary Captain John Rodgaard USN Ret continues with his first-rate electronic newsletter that keeps the North American Station updated. Particulars of which can be found in Articles from Council. This, the first forty eight page issue, contains regular columns and the not so familiar items. It was disappointing once published to find the picture quality of the last issue (KA44) poor with many illustrations appearing dark. The editorial team work hard to produce picture clarity, not an easy task when most are subject to copyright and consequently difficult to obtain in the original. Christine Beatty at AMA DataSet has carried out fine work with all illustrations for the issue, their placing, size and colour. Randy Mafit the consulting editor has also achieved excellent picture reproduction. These methods and talks with the publisher will solve the problem. Some members will have spoken with Lord Eric de Saumarez and Captain Christer Hägg RSwN Ret at the Club’s past Trafalgar night dinners and will welcome their lead article. Also revealing is Club Vice President, Joseph F. Callo’s adroit letter in which he says: “Enter British author and retired Royal Navy Captain Peter Hore, who has created Nelson’s Band of Brothers” – “Hore adds a particularly thoughtprovoking point, an idea that quickly extends our perspective on Nelson. While hundreds of books have been written about him, there is comparatively little about most of his contemporaries, and yet it would be a mistake to isolate him from the system, which was the Royal Navy, the most sophisticated administrative enterprise and largest industrial complex in the world.” Author Peter Hore has included an errata to the book which is published alongside the letter. It is important to encompass change and move forward, particularly with publications which are seen as the face of the Club. I believe this new stage will be successful and will give the Club an opportunity to also present occasional publications and papers. Kenneth Flemming
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