Calendar 2013

UK NationalAnnual Review Historic April 2011 –Ships March 2012

Foreword

From its inception in 2010, our Photography Competition has been a bellwether for fine and fascinating images of historic vessels, harbours, seascapes and people. Every year we have chosen 12 of the best to feature in our calendar, but due to cost have never been able to publish more than a small number of these calendars for distribution. This year we are doing something very unusual: we have combined what we are now calling our Annual Review with our calendar to form a single high-quality publication. Bringing the costs of the two publications together will allow us to make the Review/ Calendar available to all owners of historic vessels on the Registers, stakeholders, supporters, UK governments, and everyone on our Annual Report mailing list. On each calendar page we have incorporated a pen-sketch of aspects of what we do, some of which expand what is written in the Review, others introducing new topics to draw your eye. We want to encourage you to make more use of the information on our websites and those of relevant organisations, so each pen-sketch is accompanied by a web-link for you to follow.

We hope that you enjoy the Review, and the opportunity to display the splendid images in the calendar from the Photography Competition as striking reminders of the richness of our maritime heritage.

Above & right: Photography Competition Category B - Shortlisted: Front cover: Photography Competition Category C - Highly The Chief Engineer on Paddle Steamer Waverley, Graeme Phanco. commended: “Reflecting” Little Ships at Dunkirk, Mike Garlick.

Introduction

The reporting year 2011 / 12 has been one Administrations on all matters relating and remains a valued supporter of what of intense activity and change. March 31st to historic vessels. we do. Advice to governments on matters saw the Advisory Committee on Historic relating to historic vessels is, as before, Vessels stand down as the organisation • To act as a source of advice to the given directly to ministers. ceased to be an Advisory Non-Departmental Heritage Lottery Fund and other grant- Public Body, to become an independent giving and public bodies across the UK My colleagues and I wish to acknowledge the organisation funded by government through on maritime conservation priorities, contributions made by the former members the Department of Culture, Media and Sport applications received relating to funding of the Advisory Committee, whose names (DCMS) to give objective advice on historic historic ship projects, and proposals which are given in Appendix A of this Review. vessels relating to the directly or indirectly affect historic vessels. We are very appreciative of the work they both here and abroad. In view of increasing undertook, and the personal support they recognition on the world stage, and the • To provide leadership and strategic vision gave in furthering our aims and objectives. work we do with colleagues overseas, the across the UK historic ships’ communities A Council of Experts is now to be formed, opportunity was also taken to amend our and wider maritime sectors by acting building on and extending the work of name to National Historic Ships UK. as the official voice for historic vessels the Committee, not least in exploring through proactive engagement with the new avenues of support in what are very This reclassification has not changed our sector, the UK government, the Devolved challenging times. The Council will be remit, which remains: Administrations, public and private brought together over the Autumn of 2012 agencies, and communities at large. and be fully up and running by the • To act as the primary source of Spring of 2013. independent and objective advice to the For operational purposes we now present Secretary of State for Culture, Media an annual activity report to DCMS through and Sport (DCMS), other government the good offices of the National Maritime departments, and the Devolved Museum, which continues to provide Martyn Heighton support services under a Level Agreement Director National Historic Ships UK

Photography Competition Category C - Entry: Historic Dockyard and HMS Warrior, Michael Newman.

Annual Review April 2011 – March 2012

The year’s activities reviewed

The National Registers

The Registers held by National Historic The Overseas Watch List (OWL) again Designated The Year of the Registers, 2011 /12 Ships UK are fundamental to meeting established in 2010, holds information also saw major strides in how we assess the the organisation’s remit. There are now on 75 historic vessels with strong UK listed on the NRHV. four live Registers and Lists accessible associations lying overseas in which This work could not have been done without free online from the website there are particular interests, as subjects the unstinting efforts of George Hogg, who www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk. for potential repatriation (such as runs the National Small Boat Register from These have been designed to address HMS Whimbrel in Egypt), or as the . the many and various aspects of historic conservation projects (such as the vessels within or relating to the maritime steam ship in Peru). In parallel there have been developments in patrimony of the United Kingdom. the databases which underpin the Registers, April 2012 saw the setting up of the with a new readily-searchable online The National Register of Historic Vessels UK Replica List. This new database system being developed for launching in (NRHV) holds details of all extant will hold information on replicas in May 2012. This will give users much greater registered vessels: at the end of March the UK using the replica definitions set access to the material we hold, ensure 2012 there were 1170 vessels on this out in our manual Conserving Historic that information will be better tailored Register (including 212 in the National Vessels. There is a great deal of interest to individual research needs (particularly Historic Fleet), with some 60 being new in this development nationally and through new Statements of Significance registrations entered over the period of internationally and we expect the list will revised to meet our guidelines published in this Review. have a significant and positive impact on Conserving Historic Vessels), and will reflect understanding the role of replicas and the growing new uses to which the Registers The National Archive of Historic Vessels their relationship to historic vessels, and are being put such as seeking out vessels for (NAHV) established in 2010 lists 450 vessels broaden further the use of our website. use in films, or tourists looking for days out which were on the NRHV but have been Access the well used Registers and Lists on our website. Progress on this initiative will on historic vessels. lost through dilapidation, through sinking, be reported in next year’s Review. being scrapped, or which do not currently fit NRHV criteria. Advising government & related agencies Advising Funders

Regular contact is maintained with Although we are approached by many grant- the UK government and the Devolved giving bodies to help them in their decision- Administrations, providing background making, the bulk of advice on funding briefings for Parliamentary and Assembly applications lies with the Heritage Lottery questions involving issues linked with Fund (HLF), the National Heritage Memorial historic vessels. Advice is also given Fund (NHMF), and the Preservation of with regard to the future of nationally Industrial and Scientific Material (PRISM) significant vessels. Over the period of this Fund run by Arts Council (ACE). report specific advice has been sought by In view of the particular challenges applying DCMS and the Devolved Administrations to historic vessels, HLF has adopted a policy on the future of HMS Caroline in Northern of taking early advice from National Historic Ireland, in , Ships UK at pre-application and Round One and the former Warship Trust vessels levels for both regional and national projects, HMS Bronington, HMS , and as well as detailed advice at Round Two. LCT Landfall in . We have Over the period of this report advice has been also been working closely with English given on 17 HLF and 7 PRISM applications, Heritage on a review of heritage assets ranging from major ship conservation and planning issues falling within the projects such as SS , the steam remit of both organisations. This work tugs Challenge and Daniel Adamson, and has resulted in the scheduling of Harriet, the Newport Medieval Ship; through a ‘trow’ which is the most infrastructure projects such as the proposed significant hulk on the Purton Wrecks site boatbuilding academy in Portsmouth in , and the adoption of Historic Dockyard, to relatively small projects policies for the inclusion of historic vessels such as the narrow boat Saturn and the which are permanently fixed to the ground lifeboat Lucy Lavers. In addition, continuing or another permanent structure in the advice is also sought by both bodies on Historic Environment Records which local projects already under way: Medway Queen authorities are now expected to hold. and are examples of this.

Photography Competition Category C - Photography Competition Category C - Entry: Sun, smoke & sea, a perfect day on the Shortlisted: True Balance, Signe Holst-Larsen. S.T. Portwey, Richard Albanese.

Annual Review April 2011 – March 2012

Supporting the sector

Grant-aid Awards

In 2004 / 5 when the Parliamentary Select be made to help sustain Registered vessels. 2011 proved an exciting year in the historic ship expert Paul Atterbury on Committee on Culture, Media and Sport Between April 2011 and March 2012 some development of awards to support and 19th October 2011 at an event on board investigated the key issues relating to historic £46,500 was awarded in support of historic encourage those working with historic HMS . The images from the 2011 vessels, funding for owners (public, private vessel projects, with £36,000 coming from our vessels or who are interested in them. Photography Competition were used in and trusts) stood out as a major need. own Strategic Grants Fund and the rest from A new award – the Marsh Award for the 2012 Calendar. Consequently the Committee recommended grants sourced through partner organisations Volunteers – has been created, thanks to that a grants scheme be put in place for such as The Headley Trust. The full list of the generosity of the Marsh Christian Trust. The winners of the Photography strategically targeted, albeit small, awards to grants awarded is given in Appendix B. This award recognises the commitment Competition declared in October 2012 of volunteers who give so much to projects are listed on the back cover, with images across the UK. Competition in this from the competition being used in the inaugural year was fierce, and after a great 2013 Calendar. deal of deliberation, the award was given to Robert Skuse in view of his outstanding One other award featured this year: record working on the vessels owned by the Raymarine Award for operational Museums. vessels. This award was put in place in order to help address the need for The Flagship of the Year Award was given operating historic vessels to indicate to the Scottish ‘’ Swan for their positions when at sea in order to her extensive public sailing programme, reduce the danger of being run down by details of which are given in the calendar other ships. Raymarine UK donated state accompanying this Review. of the art satellite positioning equipment to a value of over £4000 and the prize The Marsh Volunteer Award, the National was given to East Coast-based Historic Ships UK Photography Competition at a presentation during the Awards, and the Flagship of the Year 2011 Boat Show. Award were presented by broadcaster and

Photography Competition Category A - Shortlisted: Swan, early morning, Uddevalla, Sweden, Peter Campbell. Case work Skills development

In addition to the work with funders Having a strong skills base and the At the time of writing, the first stage described in this Review, we are also infrastructure to provide the necessary of this project is coming to an end with involved in extensive case-work which this services are crucial in securing the long- an additional grant award being given year included technical advice on vessels term future of historic vessels whether by HLF to allow the project to continue such as and MGB 81; business afloat and operational, static, or ashore. through to 2013. planning or grant application advice such The Shipshape Network was set up in as that for Daniel Adamson; advice to 2008 / 9 as a national resource channelled In parallel with this initiative, work local councils as harbour and planning through regional networks to provide with the RYA is in progress to develop authorities including advice to Bristol’s a free Directory of Skills and Services, a framework for traditional boat Harbourside Forum and East Council; contact points and forums, and a vehicle handling (initially for gaff and lug rigs) giving evidence at public inquiries, the for the development of skills initiatives. to be delivered through RYA certificated prime example being the public inquiry into April 2011 saw the creation of an training centres. the future of the Richmond Dry Dock in HLF-funded skills project by National ; helping broadcasters and film- Historic Ships UK and the National At another level, we are working with makers on programmes such as The Boats Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port the International Boatbuilding Training that Built Britain, and monitoring vessels which took three trainees through a College (IBTC) in and under many forms of threat such as the specially-created programme. Working European partners on a potential cross- Purton Hulks, and PS Ryde. We are also with training agencies, seven specific border EU skills project, and with IBTC, involved at international level establishing learning units have been developed the Excelsior Sailing Trust, and Waveney information systems and skills initiatives which are presently being assessed by District Council on a first-round bid for through membership of the International the awarding body Edexcel with a view funding from the Coastal Communities Congress of Maritime Museums Register to creating a nationally-recognised Fund for a heritage-based hub and Project group, and exchanging information BTEC short course in historic vessel water transport initiative in Lowestoft with leading European institutions in the conservation. involving historic vessels. Netherlands and Scandinavia. Photography Competition Category C - Shortlisted: On top of the world, Will Stirling.

Annual Review April 2011 – March 2012 Getting our message across A new Forward Framework

As an organisation with limited resources In 2008 the Advisory Committee published a Forward Plan we depend heavily on the world-wide web through to 2011. The outcome of that plan was reported in the and social media communication tools Review 2006-11. Most of the objectives set down in that document such as Facebook and Twitter to get our were either achieved or substantially achieved at the point where message across. We are looking to on-going the Committee stood down. This last year has seen those achieve- developments to improve our home site ments being consolidated and the start of the process to develop www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk, and sister a new Forward Framework running from 2013 /14 to 2015 /16. site www.shipshapenetwork.org.uk through The Framework will set the parameters for what we intend to do which we promote skills and services relevant whilst allowing flexibility in the means by which those objectives to historic vessels. Regular users will have are secured. Issues that the new Framework will look to address seen many changes in the services we provide include: the need to find new funding sources (public and private) through both the websites, with improved for the operational vessels in the National Historic Fleet; finding content designed to encourage increased ways to enhance the Strategic Grants budget; developing an usage over time. effective regime of protection for National Historic Fleet vessels in order to prevent further damaging losses through demolition A snapshot of our web statistics shows and neglect; realising the potential of the Shipshape Network as a that in the month of March 2011, vehicle for developing skills and infrastructure; capitalising on the some 6000 people visited the home site use of our websites and communications systems, and completing www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk accessing the re-documentation of the Registers’ databases. Organisational 28,500 pages; www.shipshapenetwork.org.uk capacity will be an issue, and we will need to find additional sources (by nature a more specialist site) reported 790 of funding if we are to achieve our ambitions for the organisation. users with 3,100 pages visited over the same period. These figures will be used as base The Framework will be developed in consultation with the new data for measuring the impact of the web Council of Experts, the sector and stakeholders, and will be and register changes made over 2012 / 13. launched in Spring 2013. Photography Competition Category A - Shortlisted: Wanda, an early start on Loch Linnhe, Colin Ryan. Appendix A Membership of the Advisory Committee, staff & external advisors

The Advisory Committee Dr Robert Prescott (chairman) Roger Hanbury John Kearon Mike Lewis Dr Campbell McMurray OBE Sean Neeson Captain David Newberry RN Tim Parr John Robinson Jane Ryder Matthew Tanner MBE

Co-opted to the Registration Sub-Committee Captain George Hogg (National Maritime Museum Cornwall/National Small Boat Register) Mike Turpin (National Waterways Museum)

Staff & volunteers Martyn Heighton Paula Palmer Hannah Cunliffe Emerald Laing Ron Ellis, volunteer Roy Marsden, volunteer

External advisers Fat Beehive, web designer Dr Eric Kentley Christian Topf Design Ltd, publications designer

Photography Competition Category B - Shortlisted: , Granville Davies.

Annual Review April 2011 – March 2012 Appendix B Strategic Development Fund

VESSEL GRANT PURPOSE AWARDED VESSEL GRANT PURPOSE AWARDED Alpha Sustainability Remedial wood work £ 1000 New Britannic Sustainability Remedial work £ 500 Arctic Corsair Sustainability Bridge repairs £ 500 Nosila Sustainability Remedial work £ 700 Belle Sustainability Restoration work £ 1000 Nutfield Sustainability Remedial work £ 1000 HMS Caroline Project Project work £ 3000 Olga Conference ICMM training £ 250 Challenge Sustainability Dry docking £ 500 Peggy Sustainability Survey £ 1000 Colinne Sustainability Engine and gear box £ 1000 Sustainability Boiler £ 1000 Daniel Adamson Sustainability Consultancy £ 1000 Princess Marina Sustainability Caulking £ 1000 RRS Discovery Sustainability Floating platform £ 1000 RML 526 Sustainability Remedial work £ 1000 Eileen Aisling Sustainability Remedial work £ 1000 Rob Pete Sustainability Remedial work £ 1000 Iwunda Sustainability Caulking £ 1000 & Ada Sustainability Sails £ 1000 James Jackson Grundy Sustainability Remedial work £ 1000 Seaport Alpha Sustainability Remedial work £ 1000 Lady Jean Sustainability Deck repairs £ 1000 Sculptor Sustainability Remedial work £ 1000 Kerne Sustainability Propeller shaft work £ 1000 Spider T Project Runner-up flagship £ 250 Leader Sustainability Remedial work £ 1000 Susan Sustainability Hull repairs £ 1000 Louisa II Sustainability Interpretation £ 500 Swan Project Flagship winner £ 1000 May Sustainability Remedial work £ 1000 Stork Sustainability Remedial work £ 500 Mercia Sustainability Remedial work £ 1000 Trinity Sustainability Deck repairs £ 1000 MFV 199 Sustainability Remedial work £ 1000 White Lady Sustainability Remedial work £ 1000 Mirosa Sustainability Sails £ 1000 Witch Sustainability Remedial work £ 1000

In 2011/12 National Historic Ships UK has been supported by: Appendix C Income & Expenditure Accounts

Actual Income & Expenditure 2011 / 2012 NMM service level agreement charges 10,824 Income DCMS Grant 241,000 Professional Fees & Finance Sundry The Headley Trust - award of grant 9,125 Consultancy 21,776 Grants carried forward 50,795 Insurance 884 Book revenue 1,411 Total Professional & Finance Sundry 22,660 Total Income 302,331 Committee Outreach Service Delivery Costs Hospitality 2,293 Salaries 135,521 Travel 7,998 Pensions 2,379 Accommodation 1,996 NIC 14,663 Subsistence 1,140 Total Service Delivery Costs 152,563 Miscellaneous 543 Total Committee Outreach 13,970 Information, Communicationa & Technology IT Maintenance/service contracts 960 Stationery 1,659 Total Information, Communication & Technology 2,619 Strategic Development Grant Awards 82,421 (inc of grants carried forward) Communications & Marketing Events 383 Books and periodicals 2,006 Printing 11,500 Total Expenditure 302,137 Subscriptions 319 PR 2,872 Total Communication & Marketing 17,080 Income-expenditure out-turn 194

Annual Review April 2011 – March 2012

January 2013 National Historic Ships UK Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday The Registers

The Registers are the life-blood for what 1 2 3 4 5 6 we do. It is vital that they are kept as up to date as possible, and made available in user-friendly ways. Bank Holiday New Year’s Day (Scotland) With this in mind, 2011 / 12 was designated The Year of the Registers and a great deal of energy has gone into improving what we 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 provide. A completely new on-line database system was developed which recognises that users come to the Registers for different reasons: for general information; to help plan visits; for broadcasting and film-making; for school projects; and for research. Users 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 can now make their own detailed enquiries, whatever their interests. New Statements of Significance are being written, starting with the National Historic Fleet and those vessels which need them for grant applications.

These Statements are being entered on the 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Registers through a rolling programme. A project reviewing how we make decisions on which vessels are nominated for the National Historic Fleet has pointed the way to a more effective process for identifying these key vessels. 28 29 30 31 We will be publishing the outcome of this in 2013. Finally the new Replica List is up and running and growing in entries. Take a virtual winter voyage through the Registers by logging onto www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk

Photography Competition Category A – Highly commended: www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk Fastnet Rock from Mascotte, Henry Faire.

February 2013 National Historic Ships UK Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Working with Funding Bodies Organisations such as the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), the National Heritage Memorial 1 2 3 Fund (NHMF), the Preservation of Industrial and Scientific Material (PRISM) Fund and the Wolfson Foundation, come to us for advice on historic vessels and related projects. Recognising the complexity of such initiatives, and the depth and breadth of 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 information we hold, HLF now asks us for advice at the earliest preliminary stages of a project, before any formal application is made. PRISM too makes an early approach to us when faced with grant applications for such projects. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 In conjunction with the direct advice that we can give to applicants at the ideas stage, this approach is proving to be very effective in identifying key issues early on, and helps all parties to better understand what the project is trying to do, and how to set about 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 achieving this. Between April 2011 and March 2012 we gave advice on 25 projects to the funding bodies named here. To see which funding sources may be available for a project you have in mind, and to find out the 25 26 27 28 ways in which we can help you, go to www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk and to specific sites such as www.hlf.org.uk and www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/ apply-for-funding/prism

Photography Competition Category B – Highly Commended: www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk Rope on a boat, Gary Muir.

March 2013 National Historic Ships UK Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Saving Historic Ships

Finding sustainable futures for historic 1 2 3 vessels has always been challenging, the more so when the national economy is navigating rocky waters. The year 2011/12 St. David’s Day saw several vessels on the Registers lost, some in heart-breaking circumstances when there were people and organisations willing 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 to take on the vessel concerned. HMS Stalker, a Landing Ship Tank from 1944, substantially complete, was one vessel lost over the year. She was demolished in a breakers yard in Portsmouth despite our 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 efforts to win time to find a new use for her. More encouragingly City of Adelaide, beautifully captured in this evocative St. Patrick’s Day calendar photograph, is the subject of a rescue bid by the South Australian group Ship City of Adelaide Limited 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 (CSCOAL). The proposal is to take her from the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine to Port Adelaide, to which she made many voyages from Britain to South Australia taking emigrants to a new life in the colony.

Sponsors have provided a cradle to move 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 the ship and CSCOAL is now working to raise the necessary funds to meet the criteria set by the museum, the Scottish Government, and ourselves. Find out more by going Good Friday Easter Sunday to www.cityofadelaide.org.au

Photography Competition Category A – Winner: www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk City of Adelaide, Alan Kempster.

April 2013 National Historic Ships UK Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Flagship of the Year

Flagship of the Year is an initiative we set up 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 to encourage and support operating vessels on the Register. Winners receive a specially designed and dated broad pennant to fly

Easter Bank Holiday wherever they go, and £1000 towards the cost of the programme of events and public engagement set out in their application. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 First awarded to SS Shieldhall in 2009 for her extensive public events programme on , the 2011 Flagship Award was given to Swan, a ‘fifie’ drifter built by Hay’s of Lerwick in 1900. Rescued in 1982 from the bottom of dock and acquired by The Swan Trust in 1990, this superb 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 example from the Scottish sailing fishing fleet is now a sail-training vessel.

The Trust won the Flagship Award due to the very impressive season set out for 2011 which included a voyage to St. Kilda, 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 and taking young crews on all four legs of the 2011 Tall Ships races from Waterford in Ireland to: in Scotland; Lerwick (her home port) in Shetland; on to Stavanger St. George’s Day in Norway; and finishing in Halmstad, Sweden. 29 30 The £1000 Flagship grant went towards the cost of new sails for the extended voyage. You can learn more about Swan by going to www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/search_ the_registers.php and www.swantrust.com

Photography Competition Category A – Entry: www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk A vintage evening in Pyefleet, Lucy Harris.

May 2013 National Historic Ships UK Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Keeping History Afloat (KHA)

In 2010, £110,000 was awarded from the HLF Skills for the Future Fund to the KHA 1 2 3 4 5 project, run by the Waterways Trust in partnership with ourselves. By February 2011, three trainees had been recruited for 18-month placements at the Heritage Boatyard, National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port.

6 7 8 9 10 11 12 In addition to promoting traditional boat restoration and shipwright skills, an important May Day project legacy was the development of seven (Early May Bank Holiday) units in historic vessel conservation, based on the principles covered in our guidance manuals Understanding Historic Vessels, 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Volumes 1-3. In May 2011, David Tournay of Evolution Partnership began to draft the units in his role as skills consultant for the project. We met with City & Guilds as a potential awarding body to provide formal accreditation and market research was 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 carried out to assess sector interest in a course of this kind.

In the meantime, plans were made for the KHA trainees to attend a first short external placement at Brinklow Boat Services and to visit South Coast historic vessels whilst 27 28 29 30 31 attending the inaugural lecture of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights. For more information on subsequent KHA Spring Bank Holiday project activities, visit the Mersey regional page at: www.shipshapenetwork.org.uk

Photography Competition Category A – Entry 2011: www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk Saturn arriving at a busy Tower Wharf in Chester, on route to a Easter gathering, Bob Jervis.

June 2013 National Historic Ships UK Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday A Shipshape Solent training scheme

In June 2011, we arranged a pilot training scheme for the Shipshape Solent region, 1 2 funded by the Headley Trust out of a £30,000 bid covering a range of training projects in traditional maritime techniques.

Five students from Southampton City College’s Marine Skills Centre spent four days on the 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 National Historic Fleet steamship SS Shieldhall. They experienced her triple expansion steam engines first-hand, working alongside the crew to understand their operation and design, whilst raising steam in her boilers. Kenneth Cast, City College Marine Skills Manager said: ‘this was a live learning adventure par 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 excellence. It provided a lasting impression and an experience that we cannot teach in a classroom.’

The initiative included a day operating Shieldhall at sea, but just a few weeks before, corrosion 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 was discovered in her frames with considerable repairs needed. With the at-sea element likely to be abandoned, we secured help from another National Historic Fleet vessel, harbour defence motor launch, HMS Medusa. She saved the scheme, taking the students to sea and offering a fascinating contrast to Shieldhall with 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 her Gardner diesel engines.

Visit www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/ search_the_registers.php to find out more about the two vessels involved.

www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk HMS Medusa – The Medusa Trust.

July 2013 National Historic Ships UK Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday The Raymarine Award

Concerned vessel owners alerted us to the difficulties of operating a historic vessel in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 busy navigational waters, so we teamed up with Raymarine UK to offer a special award of an electronic chartplotter and an AIS 500 (Automatic Identification System), valued at over £4000, to help reduce the danger of collisions. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Applicants were asked to indicate their average cruising programme, the significance of their vessel, and to describe a real-life experience where marine electronics would have made a difference, or explain how the equipment would enable the vessel to undertake more ambitious 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 voyages. The competition ran from June to August 2011 and, after careful deliberation, the judges presented the award to National Historic Fleet vessel, Lowestoft sailing , Excelsior, which regularly cruises the North Sea and Channel 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 with its busy shipping lanes, covering some 4,000 miles annually with youth groups and passengers on board.

Although a one-off award, this connection with Raymarine helped us to highlight the vital importance of keeping the UK Historic Fleet 29 30 31 safe at sea, protecting vessels which are an irreplaceable part of Britain’s maritime past. See www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/pages/ sources-of-funds-for-historic-vessels.html for details of our other awards and funding schemes.

Photography Competition Category C – Shortlisted: www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk Sunny side of life, Joost van der Velde.

August 2013 National Historic Ships UK Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Richmond Dry Dock

We often get involved in land-based issues 1 2 3 4 relating directly to historic vessels or the context within which they operate. In 2011/12 we were asked to make submissions on several planning issues affecting historic vessels and the services they need.

One such case was advising the local 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 planning authority on the impact of an application to build a restaurant close to an important slipway in . Bank Holiday (Scotland) The proposal, turned down in the light of evidence from many individuals and agencies, would have undoubtedly restricted, 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 possibly stopped, the use of the slipway. Another case was the evidence we gave at the Public Inquiry into the future of the Richmond Dry Dock in Bideford. Public Inquiries are formal and daunting occasions, and there was much at stake for all sides in view of 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 proposals for a major development around and immediately alongside the dry dock.

Based especially on the evidence which we were able to provide from our Services Audit and knowledge of the sector, which demonstrated potential markets and how 26 27 28 29 30 31 the dock could help meet that demand, the Inspector found against the developer. To find out more about the range of projects in

Summer Bank Holiday which we get involved click on the news items on www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk

Photography Competition Category D2 – Young Photographer of the Year 2012: www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk Mumbles lifeboat station, Hannah Davies.

September 2013 National Historic Ships UK Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Marsh Volunteer Awards

Volunteers are crucial to so many aspects of the UK’s heritage. However, until 2011 /12 1 there was no award specific to historic vessels.

The generosity of the Marsh Christian Trust has remedied this omission with a prize of £1000 for a volunteer or group of volunteers who, in the eyes of the organisation they 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 support, have played an outstanding part in sustaining a historic vessel project.

The first award was presented at the annual National Historic Ships Awards Ceremony in October 2011 to Robert Skuse for his remarkable record supporting the historic 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ships (the world’s oldest working steam tug), John King, and Pyronaut, all in the ownership of Bristol Museums. In his working life, Robert is an engineer working on rigs around the coast of Britain.

Despite the pressures of such a demanding 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 job, much of his on-shore leave is devoted to these vessels, which are kept in full operational order. In addition to demonstrations, they regularly carry passengers around Bristol’s Floating Harbour and therefore must be maintained to MCA 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 standards for inland waters. To find out more about the Bristol ships go to www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk. 30 For information on the Marsh Trust, go to www.marshchristiantrust.org

Photography Competition Category B – Winner: www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk Working on Vigilance, Peter Hunt.

October 2013 National Historic Ships UK Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday National Historic Ships Annual Awards 1 2 3 4 5 6 In October 2010 we launched our annual Photography Competition. October 2011 saw this event grow into a full awards ceremony celebrating not only the skills of people of all ages taking part in the Photography Competition but also encompassing the Flagship of the Year 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 and Marsh Volunteer Awards (featured in April and September respectively in this calendar).

Participants journeyed from all over the UK to the event on HMS Belfast, where the awards were presented by the broadcaster 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 and historic vessel expert Paul Atterbury.

Images from the competition were used to illustrate our Review 2006-2011, which celebrated the work of National Historic Ships over its first five-year period, and 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 were also featured in the National Historic Ships UK calendar for 2012, sold last year in a joint initiative with Classic Boat, one of the Photography Competition sponsors. Images from the 2012 Competition are being used in this 2013 calendar. 28 29 30 31 Information on all our awards and the time of the year when they are launched and promoted is given in the news sections of our website www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk

Photography Competition Category C – Overall Winner: www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk Scorpio, Ian Kippax.

November 2013 National Historic Ships UK Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Understanding specialist rigs

After approaches from registered vessel owners struggling to recruit crew or find seamen with 1 2 3 the necessary experience to operate their craft safely and traditionally, NHS-UK set up a working group to investigate further. This group developed an outline framework, identifying key skills required to handle lug and gaff rig vessels and highlighting the differences between sailing 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 modern and traditional craft.

A gaff rig training day was held on pilot in November 2011, hosted by working group members Toby Marris and Tom Cunliffe. The day was over-booked, clearly showing the 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 demand. Topics covered included: the vessel’s working life and significance; her rig; sail and rope handling; and manoeuvres under power and sail. A follow-up lug rig training day took place on historic Ripple in March 2012.

The Royal Yachting Association (RYA) 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 proved supportive of the project and a well- attended workshop was held at the 2012 RYA Yachtmaster Instructors Conference. We are now looking at options for publishing a detailed specialist rig training framework, endorsed by a heritage stamp, which could be 25 26 27 28 29 30 implemented via the RYA training centres.

Go online at www.shipshapenetwork.org.uk

St. Andrew’s Day for further information on training initiatives like this.

Photography Competition Category C – Entry: www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk Isabella Fortuna heading for port, Alan McGee.

December 2013 National Historic Ships UK Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Grants for Historic Vessels

Grants awarded by us from our own Strategic 1 Fund and through partnerships with other grant giving bodies (principally The Headley Trust) have had a huge impact on the historic ships sector.

Between July 2006 and March 2011 over £300,000 was disbursed to historic vessel 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 projects, with a further £44,500 awarded between April 2011 and March 2012, of Bank Holiday which £36,000 came from the Strategic (Scotland) Fund, and the remaining amounts from our partner funders.

Grants have been given for all sorts of projects: 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 the steam tug Challenge was awarded £1000 towards dry docking costs for a survey leading up to a successful HLF bid; the River Weaver packet James Jackson Grundy received £1000 for general remedial work; the Thames Mirosa and oyster dredger Rosa & Ada were 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 each awarded £1000 towards the cost of new sails; the Dungeness lifeboat Louisa II received £500 for interpretation, and the Bristol pilot cutter Olga was presented with £250 as a conference bursary.

Information on all grants given in 2011/12 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 can be found in Appendix B of the report incorporated in this calendar as well as our New website. For details of how to apply for a Year’s 30 Eve 31 Christmas Day Boxing Day grant, go to www.nationalhistoricships. org.uk/what-we-can-do-for-you.html

Photography Competition Category C – Entry: www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk Annie Mellor and Lakeland Mist on Derwentwater, Robert Beale. The National Historic Ships UK Photography Competition Winners 2012

Photographer 2012 Young Photographer 2012

Category A: Category B: Category C: Category D1: Category D2:

Historic Vessels on the National Register Traditional Maritime Skills in Action. Classic Boat favourite: The Maritime Your local historic vessel or seascape. Your local historic vessel or seascape. or National Archive of Historic Vessels. Enthusiast. Primary school children. Secondary school children.

Winner: Winner: Overall winner: Winner: Overall winner: City of Adelaide, by Alan Kempster. Vigilance BM 76, , by Peter Hunt. Scorpio, by Ian Kippax from Ely. Victory, by Zach Grainger. Mumbles Lifeboat Station, by Hannah Davies.

Highly commended: Highly commended: Highly commended: Highly commended: Highly commended: Fastnet Rock from Mascotte, by Henry Faire. Rope on a boat, by Gary Muir. Reflecting little ships at Dunkirk, by M Garlick. On board the HMS Belfast, by Daniel Siromani. The grave yard of anchors, by Katie Freedman.