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our maritime history & present day news. No. 10 Summer 2005. cost: gold coin donation in this issue Maritime Aspects of Bellerive to Sorell railway Part 2 Lt Ken Hudspeth (Tasmanian War Hero) Portsmouth Historic Shipyard Captain Douglas S Bull Cooking with Lucky Pierre The Bob Jane Award Investigating “Jack the Ripper” Jest a Minute Letters to the editor, quiz and more Joe Connors, Alf Nicholls and (Capt.) Jim Miley at Raminea, Lune River, 1896 special feature The story of the ketch, the May Queen (Part 1) See at left Bellerive Regatta 1949 Victoria Dock 1950s 1953 1978 2004 AUSTRALIAN from WOODEN BOAT the galley FESTIVAL One Arm Pudding HOBART Eileen Petrass 12th to14th (Interstate member Carrum. Vic.) Ingredients FEBRUARY 2005 1 cup self raising flour. Record entries, * 375gms dry mixed fruit SUPPLIERS OF * Sunbeams ‘Fruit on the go” would be a good choice. Viking Boats 1 can condensed milk MARINE EQUIPMENT Don’t Miss it! 1 bottle brandy AND SAILMAKERS TO Method Combine self raising flour with mixed fruit. Marinade HOBART overnight (minimum) in brandy. Add condensed milk, mix and place in 23cm oven dish lined with baking paper. Cook at 160° for approx 45 mins (DO NOT OVERCOOK). SINCE 1964 Cool in pan. Enjoy with the remaining brandy (if you haven’t finished it already). This recipe is so simple you could do it with one 12-25 Morrison Street, Hobart hand tied behind your back (thus the name). If you drink all GPO Box 1099, Hobart, 7001 the brandy you might rename it “Legless Pudding”. Phone. 03 6234 5422 Fax. 03 6223 7797 [email protected] Handy hint Maritime Museum of Tasmania If you have tough steak put slices of Kiwi fruit on both sides, CARNEGIE BUILDING leave for 2 hours (no longer) and it will break down the Cnr Davey & Argyle Sts. fibres and tenderize the meat. Hobart, Tasmania QUIZ ANSWERS Thanks Eileen,I don’t have that problem as I buy my King Island Postal Address: GPO Box 1118, 1 Pacific 2 Piraeus 3 Van Diemen’s Land steaks from Bayside Meats in Lower Sandy Bay.(free plug for my Hobart, Tasmania 7001, AUSTRALIA butcher) 4 Greenland 5 Rear or Stern One 6 Breadfruit Phone: (03) 6234 1427 7 Dutch 8 Captain Smith BON APPETIT’ Fax: (03) 6234 1419 9 Indian –Pacific-Southern (Antartic) 10 1983 email: [email protected] “Lucky Pierre” www.maritimetas.org Who Am I? Jacques Rogge Open Daily (except for Good Friday & Christmas Day) 9am - 5pm ANVERS Confectionery # # Editor: Bob Petrass # # Assisted by: Fran Hall, and Charles & Helen Scarafiotti Indulge yourselves in a Belgian style breakfast in a chocolate factory, ernoon tea in the old gardens listening to the native birds, &=Q3*=&82&3.&3=1:3(-=3*&7=&=(48>=<44)=-*&9*7`=894(0.3,=:5=43=&82&3.&8= Design & production: Q3*89=(-4(41&9*8=47=/:89='74<8.3,=9-74:,-=9-*=(-4(41&9*=&39.6:*=).851&>. Ricoh Studio -*7*=.8=&251*=(&7=&3)=':8=5&70.3,=43=8.9*_ Phone 6223 4311 + [email protected] ;&9*=7442. $+;&'$&>='*9<**3= (;)18/1/a*-0.,0,3/2+ 23 editorial BOB JANE AWARD The Bob Jane T-Mart Award for This time I am going to keep it short and sweet. unTYRE ing work is awarded to quick quiz Audrey Hudspeth. Short because of the lack of space and sweet because of the amount of material awaiting Audrey continues to volunteer publication in our newsletter. This is most gratifying and I would like to thank all those Nautical Cup Quiz her services as a researcher for the involved in providing so many interesting and informative articles for our readers to enjoy. museum, and handles a lot of mail All we need now is a little more sponsorship and we will have smooth sailing for future Q1. Out rigger canoes were evolved by the old-time sailors of which and email enquiries from people editions. ocean? Only in England..... requesting historic information on Q2. What is Greece’s largest port? SPECIAL THANKS must go to my good friend Laurie Bahr for giving me his computer on vessels and people, and regarding LONDON A high-pitched hum Q3. What name did Abel Tasman give Tasmania, currying favour with his her work on the Acquisition, Library generated by feedback in a permanent loan (he has a new one) for my use. It certainly is is a big improvement on the Colonial Governor in Batavia? pensioner’s hearing aid attracted 33 year old ‘Brother’ portable typewriter I have been using since the newsletter began in & Research sub committee. Q4. With Australia counted as a continent, what is the world’s largest a swarm of angry wasps. Ron 2002. Keep the letters and articles coming in, but please be patient if they take some time to The long association that she and island? Packer, 82, was in his garden appear in our quarterly magazine. her late husband Ken had with in Stroud, England, when he Q5. On a three-mast warship of sailing days which mast was the mizzen? the museum certainly deserves disturbed the wasps’ nest and Bob Petrass Q6. What tropical fruit was the Bounty carrying from Tahiti to plantations recognition, and we very much was stung on his hands. He in the West Indies at the time of the famous mutiny led by Fletcher appreciate the work she does in the moved away to examine the Christian in 1789? interests of the Maritime Museum. stings when a swarm of wasps Q7. We adopted the word yacht from which northern European clustered around his 30-year-old language? Many thanks Audrey, you thoroughly hearing aid, stinging him eight Q8. What was the surname of the captain of the ill-fated Titanic? Lieut K. R. Hudspeth R.A .N.V.R, D.S.C. deserve this recognition. times. Q9. According to the Reader’s Digest Atlas of the World, which three oceans lap on Australia’s shores? “They stung me at the front and and TWO BARS Q10. In which year did Australia win the America’s Cup? back of my hearing aid area and really homed in on it,” he said. In a previous issue of the Maritime Times was not very seaworthy. He therefore “I was badly stung and was left of Tasmania, brief mention was made of decided to remain in the area and listen Who am I ? with a boxer’s cauliflower ear. I the activities of our late and esteemed for the reverberations of a successful couldn’t wear the hearing aid for Executive Officer. Ken was involved in operation on the “Tirpitz”. The raid on the An orthopedic Surgeon,I was born in Belguim in 1942 (10pts) a few days or sleep on that side.” three very important, hazardous and vital “Tirpitz” resulted in her being put out of (Sounds like he got a real earful. operations in 1943/44. He commanded action for six months. For his part in these I represented Belguim at yachting, now called sailing, at the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Ed.) a midget submarine X10, and was sent Olympics (8pts) raids Ken was awarded the Distinguished first of all in company with five other Service Cross. It has been stated that if LONDON Antique dealer, I became involved in sports administration (6pts) three man submarines X5, X6, X7, X8, X9 the attack on the “Tirpitz” had not been Stephen Birbeck, was delighted to targets in Northern Norway. The first successful, Ken would certainly have made when he sold a jewelled 13th group of three were to attack the German an attempt himself, but on hearing the In 2001 I became the 8th president of the IOC (4pts) century Persian pen case for $75,000 – 15 times more than battleship “Tirpitz” and the other three blasts, decided that there was little point My surname starts with R (2pts) he paid for it.The pleasure the “Scharnhorst”. It was from Northern in sacrificing his crew and boat needlessly. soured when he learned the Norway that these vessels could easily It is interesting to note that three of I am Jacques-? (1pt) same case fetched $2.75 million attack Russian convoys there they created these small craft were commanded by in what Sotheby’s called the havoc. The second group of three were to Australians, and two other crew members Answers on next page highest price for a piece of attack “Scharnhorst” were also Australians. Ken’s was the only Islamic Persian metalwork sold at submarine to successfully return from this auction. (Now he is pen-sive but The small craft were towed to within mission. not pen-nyless.) striking distance of their targets by large Then in September 1944 came the fleet submarines, and the weather was Six months later in January 1944 Ken The heatwave that has claimed Normandy landings on the French coast, bad. Two of the small craft parted their was embarked on another hazardous dozens of British sunburn and Ken was directed to take his X20 to tows, and X9 was never heard from again. operation. In X20 he was sent to survey and heat exhaustion victims act as a navigation beacon for the landing The Lady Nelson X8 did not regain her tow for some thirty- and collect samples from beaches of has produced its first case of the invasion forces. He did this at Juno sailing most weekends seven hours, and took no further part in particular interest on the French coast of frostbite. A motorist was beach. It will be remembered that, due to & public holidays the operation.
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