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1 EDITORIAL: I Hope That You Will Indulge Me for Writing a Few Lines THE SEVEN SEAS MAGAZINE The Official Organ of the Seven Seas Club Volume 10, No 7a Spring 2009 EDITORIAL: I hope that you will indulge me for writing a few lines about two people who, as far as I know, had no direct connection with our Club - Generations of Jolly Jack Tars - myself included - who spent time in Hong Kong, will have happy memories of "Jenny's Side Party", and zillions of ex-matelots will have read, with sorrow, about the recent demise of Jenny (Jenny Ng Muk Kah BEM - to give her her full name). She died on 26 March, at the - unconfirmed - age of 92. The famous side party cleaned and painted warships for "donkeys' years" - and at what cost? No cash involved, just the privilege for her, and her girls, to sell soft drinks to the ships' companies. You will not be forgotten, dear lady. Another nonagenarian who has crossed the bar is Rear Admiral Colin Charles Harrison Dunlop, who served from 1935 to 1974. In the early 60's he was Secretary to AOF Sir Caspar John, when First Sea Lord. I knew him in his last post, as Flag Officer Medway. At Admiral's Rounds - whilst I was serving in HMS Jaguar - I saluted him, and declared the Stores Office ready for rounds. As he entered, I politely asked him if he would sign my autograph book. He consented immediately, signed, smiled, and said, "To this day, Chief, you're the only person who has ever made me feel like a film-star"!! A lovely man. He died aged 91. Thank you once more, to my "small, but beautifully marked" band of contributors - I do appreciate your efforts. What, I wonder, can be done to increase the breed??!! Happy reading - happy summer (when it arrives) - good health, and good luck to all of you, and to those you love. Barry Holland Honorary Magazine Editor 1 President's Message Spring 2009 How time flies when you are enjoying yourself! It is hard to believe that this year of presiding is now on the home straight. As I write we have had another excellent Ladies’ Night, and another interesting speaker for the occasion. Thank you for the handsome gift made to Ann, whose support has been invaluable to me in good times and on those odd occasions when the flak has been flying! I am very grateful to members who have helped me find the speakers for the excellent series of dinners we have enjoyed recently. It has been a real team- effort and you are fortunate to have such a diligent and dedicated Committee working for you. Please enjoy this latest edition of the magazine and accept my best wishes for the summer which lies ahead. Derek Bevan President ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dates for your Diary: 2009 Friday 24 July Tower of London (and Ceremony of the Keys) Thursday 24 September Club Dinner Wednesday 14 October ANS Service St Paul’s Thursday 29 October Trafalgar Night Thursday 19 November Club Dinner Thursday 17 December Christmas Party (All functions at NLC, except Tower of London, and St Paul's service.) 2 Secretary’s Corner New members joining since the last magazine are:- Col Derek Bristow OBE DL, 16 Glebe Road, BRAMPTON, Huntingdon PE28 4PH. Tel: 01480 383166, (W) 01480 412958, INFO@MERCHANT-MARINERS PO Nick Crawford RAF, 10 Becket Wood, NEWDIGATE, Surrey RH5 5AQ Tel: 01306 631833, (M):07979758244, [email protected] WO1 Keith Simpson, MBE RM, Kew Lodge, 131 Yarmouth Road, Thorpe St. Andrew, NORWICH, NR7 0RF Tel: 01603 702720 (W) 01603 702930, (M) 07887518486, [email protected] Mr Anthony De Ste Croix, 5 Widgeon Walk, HAWKINGE, Kent CT18 7PR. Tel: 01303 891393 (M) 07720 850660, [email protected] Mr Simon Skillen, 3 Tahoma Lodge, 70 Lubbock Road, CHISLEHURST, Kent BR7 5JX. Tel: 0208 4025311 (M) 07710063633, [email protected] Mr Terence Little, 187 Warren Drive, HORNCHURCH, Essex RM12 4PL Tel: 01708 447564, (W) 020 7219 4297, (M) 07778815240, [email protected] Dates for 2010 Thursday 28 January Club Dinner Thursday 25 February Club Dinner Thursday 25 March Club Dinner Friday 30 April Ladies Night Thursday 27 May AGM Dinner Thursday 30 September Club Dinner Thursday 21 October Trafalgar Night Dinner Thursday 18 November Club Dinner Friday 17 December Christmas Party 3 Dinner Pictures January Dinner - Richard Shuttleworth, speaker January Dinner - Len Barlow, Chip Leonard 4 Dinner Pictures February Dinner: Ron Dadswell OBE - speaker March Dinner: Lt Col Stuart Watts OBE - speaker 5 March Dinner: Paul Mankerty - Chip Leonard Ladies Night - April Speaker - Frances Drake 6 Iris Allen receiving the Chip Leonard from the President Ann Bevan and Cdr John Mankerty 7 Ernest Silverman – 1915-2008 and President of the Seven Seas Club 1978-79 Ernest Silverman, President of the Seven Seas Club 1978-79, peacefully slipped his cable on Friday, November 28, 2008, aged 93 years and one month. The funeral in the Jewish tradition was on the following Monday, so short notice, but nevertheless Club members Michael Pinner and John (and Julie) Mankerty and myself managed to be there. A most dignified and well attended ceremony at Golders Green Cemetery. The family made a point of welcoming us, referring to the Club in the soliloquy and writing afterwards to thank us for attending. I replied it had been a privilege to attend such a dignified affair, and for us all to have known Ernest as a friend and Club member. Born on October 18, 1915, in Clapton London, the eldest of three brothers, he attended a Jewish boarding school in Ramsgate from age five and subsequently The Grocers Company School in London, before entering the leather goods business his father had started. In time, he took over the reins, and managed the business to provide a livelihood for him and his two brothers until it was sold in 1987. He was always proud that, in his 56 years in business, he and his brothers never had a cross word. And of course, Ernest was the first to supply Seven Seas Club merchandise, the smart badged and gold-trimmed wallets which many members will remember using for years. In 1959 he bought a lovely six tonner ‘Nora’, which he sailed on the River Crouch and several times over to Ostend with our other much loved, late, club members Bernard Baxter and Tony Grimshaw. He was an active member and some time Treasurer of the Crouch Yacht Club and helped refresh that Club through a sticky financial period. They made him a life member. Soon after, I think in 1964, he joined the Seven Seas Club and was part of our membership revival in the period when we re-built our Club from single figure dinners to the time when we outgrew the Naval Club and thence to the numbers we now regularly enjoy. He served on the Committee and as Treasurer, and from this grew the ‘tradition’ for Ernest to take the Laristan Fund box round whenever he attended Club dinners. 8 He was a friend of many in the Club, taking the Presidency after Bill Bruce and handing on to Kenneth Loveless. He was a friend of my father, Gilbert Antrobus (President 1972/3) with whom he shared many common Freemasonry interests, and I am privileged to say he was a friend of mine, too, as he was a gentleman who could comfortably bridge the generation gap. Seven Seas and sailing ‘Nora’ was by no means his only passion. Ernest followed his father into Freemasonry and as a committed member of the Royal George Lodge attained office in Grand Lodge and was Master, Secretary and later Almoner. He was also committed to the Hendon United Synagogue, organised their Silver Jubilee celebrations in 1953 and in the late sixties joined his sons as a member of the New London Synagogue, again becoming an active member and serving as a Warden. He married Anne in 1938, settling in Hendon, and in 1939 volunteered for the Royal Navy, only to be declined due to his asthma. His war service thereafter focused on manufacturing for the Armed Forces and Export and to fire watching in the City during both the Blitz and later air raids. There were two sons, Michael born in 1940 and Jonathan in 1949, but his marriage faltered and in 1963 Ernest moved to a mansion block flat in Kensington, his base for the rest of his life. In 1971 he married Phyllis Levy, with whom he shared a wonderful 22 years until she died in 1993. She was a great supporter of the Club and many members will remember her liveliness at the functions ladies attended. With this extended family, Ernest amassed some ten grandchildren on whom he doted. He lived with much sadness towards the end of his years, losing his daughter-in law in 1992, Phyllis in 1993 and his son Michael in 1995. Despite this, when asked how he was he always replied, “Musn’t grumble!” His last dinner attendance was several years ago, but a small Seven Seas visiting party had lunch with him a couple of times where he lived in Kensington High Street, taking the Seven Seas to him, including George (and Pat) Kingston, Angie Antrobus and Tim Sanders-Hewitt as far as I recall. I (sometimes with Angie) used to visit him in his flat for tea and a gin and tonic, surrounded by photos of ‘Nora’, the family and his Seven Seas Club 9 life membership plaque prominently displayed. He always wanted to know the latest Club news, but then the conversation always drifted towards ‘Nora’ and the Crouch.
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