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CONTENTS –NO. 91 – May 2013 Edited by Jonathan Seagrave 91 The Newsletter of the SOUTH WEST MARITIME HISTORY SOCIETY ` ISSN 1360-6980 CONTENTS –NO. 91 – May 2013 Edited by Jonathan Seagrave FUTURE MEETINGS 3 EDITORIAL AND MEMBERSHIP 4 Kathleen and May Response from Government 6 ARTICLES Newport Ship Colin Green 8 The Lightship Ken Doughty 9 Medway Queen The Editor 12 Watchet The Editor 14 REVIEWS British Warships and Auxiliaries S Bush rev. Roger Bunbury 16 Gone .W. Cumming rev. David Clement 17 Fight for the Fjords rev. Roger Bunbury 19 LETTERS NOTES AND NEWS 22 WEBERY 27 OFFICERS and COMMITTEE back cover WEBSITE. http://www.swmaritime.org.uk/ 1 Individual contributions © Individual contributors. Entire journal © South West Maritime History Society 2013. Views expressed are the authors’ and not necessarily those of the Society or editor. Please note the Society cannot be held responsible for the accuracy of information on websites and that references in older editions may not be accurate. Annual Subscriptions Due 1st April. £15 cash cheque for 2013/14.NOW DUE £20.00 from April 2014 or £15 if paid by Standing Order. Students can take advantage of our special annual subscription of £10. A Standing Order form /invoice for 2014 onwards is enclosed . Please return as soon as convenient. In future individual reminders will not be sent. All correspondence to the Membership Secretary. ( details back cover ) Next copy date: August 20 2013 2 FUTURE MEETINGS AND OTHER EVENTS 2013 June 8 SWMHS - Annual General Meeting Topsham.(papers & calling notice enclosed ) DO PLEASE CONSIDER COMING. We need to be quorate and there will, as usual, be interesting presentations as well as the formal business which should be brief. There will also be an opportunity to discuss next steps in our involvement with advocacy and lobbying for our maritime heritage. 2013 June 1st WSS Naval Meeting Bristol ffi R Osborne [email protected] 2013 June 9 SWMHS - Sail in Cornubia from Plymouth Mayflower Marina PLACES STILL AVAILABLE at Press date ffi Julia Creeke 01395 513962 or [email protected] 2013 July 13 SWMHS - Devonport Navy Base South Yard ffi Martin Hazell. ( calling notice sent, also available on website ) 2013 September (day tbd) SWMHS - Swansea 2013 September 10 -12 Deck to Dock, Exeter University Conference (Ends 12th) 2013 October (day tbd) SWMHS - Watchet 2013 November 17 Clovelly Herring Festival 10:00 am until 4:00 pm. (Italics indicate an event of interest but not organised directly by the Society) Confirmation of events will be published either in the next edition or in calling notices for bookings, which will be sent to members at the appropriate time. Other Events Paul Barnett is repeating his regular tours of the Purton site ffi 07833 143231 [email protected] 3 EDITORIAL AND MEMBERSHIP This edition comes hard on the heels of SWS90, so the AGM calling notice and papers can come with it. I am abroad for much of May, so this may be a little dated by the time you see it. I hope to see many of you at the AGM. There has been little progress on Kathleen and May. The correspondence is now on our web site. The Department for Culture has rejected the idea of her being used for WW1 memorialisation, see below, and without their support and interest the chance of the lottery coming up with the money must be much reduced. The sad aspect for me is the unwillingness of any large organisation to put their hand up and say, if there is a scheme we want to at least participate. The DCMA seems to me to warrant an award for sheer dullness when presented with an exciting idea. Martin is organising a meeting of interested committee members to see where we go from here. Regardless of K&M the wider preservation issues remain. However, if we are to make any progress we must work with others. The most obvious national organisations are National Historic Ships, and the recently launched Maritime Heritage Trust, an umbrella group for all those with an interest. Martin and I have had contact with them, but if you have had any involvement with these, please let us know. The AGM will give an excellent opportunity to share your views with the Committee. A gentle reminder to non Standing Order (SO) members that subs ( £15) are due now. And Maritime South West will only be sent to paid up members. It will be available at the AGM as usual. Individual reminders will not be sent in future because of postal costs. 4 The standing order form to change your SO for 2014/15 is enclosed.( and is also on the website) . Please complete it right away and return to the Membership Secretary, so we can log the details and avoid the admin issues that have plagued us in the past. We wish you good sailing and reading now that spring ( and we hope summer ) has finally arrived. Jonathan Seagrave From web – source unknown 5 Kathleen and May The Politicians’ Response Thank for your letter of 26 February to the Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, Ed Vaizey MP, and for your email message of 18 March to the Secretary of State, the Rt Hon Maria Miller MP. I have been asked to reply and I apologise for the delay in doing so. I agree that the Kathleen and May is an important part of our maritime heritage, which is why Mr Vaizey agreed, on the advice of the Reviewing Committee, to defer the export licence in the hope that a UK purchaser can be found. As you will no doubt be aware, a serious offer to purchase the Kathleen and May has been received and this is good news. Those behind the offer now have until 19 June to raise the £2 million required to keep the schooner in the UK and we must all hope that the bid is successful. Should this approach fail, however, then an export licence would be granted. I am afraid it is not possible to set conditions to an export licence in the way the South West Maritime History Society suggests or for the Government to ensure that the new owners receive expert advice on the preservation of the Kathleen and May in a tropical climate, although this clearly makes sense. I note the South West Maritime History Society’s wish to see greater emphasis placed on Lottery funding for the floating heritage. The Heritage Lottery Fund is able to make grants towards the preservation of historic vessels but there is, of course, strong competition for funding from other areas. Arts Council England also administers the Preservation of Industrial and Scientific Material (PRISM) Fund, which provides funding towards the costs of acquisition and conservation of items or collections which are important in the history and development of science, technology, industry, and related fields. Turning to the points you raised in your e-mail message of 18 March, we are currently receiving a number of First World War related proposals and I regret that it is not possible to meet all those who have put these forward. However, as a forerunner of the predation of the 6 allied convoys in the 1939-45 conflict, the story of the submarine threat faced by the Merchant Fleet during the First World War is a fascinating one. Thank you for sharing your ideas about how this might be told. Trevor Dawes for Department of Culture Media and the Arts Newport Ship model 1:10 © Colin Green 7 ARTICLES Current Affairs at the Newport Ship Over ten years have gone by since the chance discovery, in the muddy bank of the River Usk, of what has become the most important medieval ship yet found. It seems, therefore, high time to briefly review the current position with a more detailed article planned for the next edition of Maritime South West. Since being recovered the many timbers of the ship have been lying in tanks at the ship centre in Newport. They lie in a solution of Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) which impregnates the structure of the wood to drive out the water and strengthen the timber ready for the next process which is the freeze drying. If this were not done the timbers would distort during the drying process. Hitherto, freeze drying has been undertaken at a specialist centre in York but an arrangement has been made to install a freeze drying machine at the Newport centre and this has been in use for the last few months. It is a long process, though, and not expected to be completed for a couple of years. The ultimate objective is to reconstruct the ship completely for display in conjunction with other vessels that have been recovered from the nearby Gwent Levels over the last twenty years. It is with this in mind that a parallel activity has been under way to digitally record the hull shape using laser equipment known as a Faro arm which records millions of points upon individual components and translates this data in three dimensions to a highly detailed computer image. This process has allowed the construction of a 1:10 plastic model of the remaining hull together with a projected visualization of the entire original ship in a skeletal form using plastic battens. A recent conclusion arising from this process is that it is almost certain that the ship had a flat transom stem rather than the rounded stern normally found in fifteenth century ships. This is quite exciting since it would be the earliest known vessel with this hull formation, the earliest so far known being the Red Bay wreck in Labrador and the Mary Rose, both of which date from the early sixteenth century.
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