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Hms Opossum Association HMS OPOSSUM ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER CHRISTMAS 2018 1945-1958 Welcome to our Christmas Newsletter. As a result of contacting the Navy News, Alan Waite [ex-Royal Marine] of HMS Newfoundland Association and other Colony class cruisers, Gambia, Kenya and Ceylon have offered, through Isle of Wight Tours [tel:-01983-405584] that Opossum Association could join them for a reunion next year. This was settled with the tour company, the reunion to be held at The Queens Hotel, 469-471 South Promenade, Blackpool FY4 1AY Tel:- 01253 336980 over the weekend Friday 12th April – Monday 15th 2019. [The weekend before Easter] I sent a prospectus of the reunion events to all members in July. I would like as big an ‘Opossum’ turn out as possible. I have visited Alan at his home in Leicester who said 80 of his group membership attended their last reunion in Bristol, I’m hoping we can muster at least 15. Your Treasurer and I have already paid our deposits, we assume other interested members have done likewise, full payment is required by 18th January 2019. Please make a big effort to attend. In July Sam and I met-up at Aldershot with our Chairman Lewis Trinder and his wife Vera for an enjoyable mini-reunion and pleased that we had our next reunion organized. A MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR TO ALL Chairman Lewis Trinder 106 North Lane, Aldershot, Hants GU12 4QT 01252- 323861 lewistrinder@gmail Secretary/Editor Eddie Summerfold 28 Greymont Road, Limefield, Bury. O161-764-8778 [email protected] Treasurer Sam Edgar 21 Heath Lawns, Fareham, Hants. PO15 5QB 01329-235732 [email protected] Website wwwhmsopossum.orgouk 1 TREASURER’S REPORT Brought Forward £1895.23 Balance £1850.23 ROLL OF HONOUR Ronald Bradley John Eardly Wilmot John Cartwright J W Powell Albert Corless Harry Barlow David Jarvis Bob Gray Les Wood George Scott John Williams Ken Harris Pat Norman Reg Parker Harry Roach Ivan C Haskell George Fletcher Fred Thornton George H Richards Fred[Mick[Bodel Fred King George Curry Sid Pemberton John Davison Cliff Harthill George Brown Steven Hart Stewart A Porter Arthur Pope Jack Marshall Les Dimmock John Bray Joe Gornall Doug Banks Dick[Ginger]Bird Jackie Scholes Harry Woolhams Cornelious Canon Jim Tribe Doug Goulding John Fraser Pete Maddox Bill Bolton Cyril Mason John Hardman Ken Philipps Mike Swayne Harry Catterson Ron Hare Bill Bovey Jack Richards William Wilder George[Jan]Lobb Bill Price Martin George Ken Slater Mike Cole Jim Payne Peter Lockwood Edward[Ted]Longstaff Roy Cope Ron Blundy Bert Rimmer John Blair John W C Clark Ken Carson Charles Parker Tony Harris Willy Mitchell Brian Healey Alan Percival Alister Hunter Blair Stan Oldfield John Jones Roy Wood John MacKenzie Tom Tolson Ian Janes John Owen Ken Hodgkin 2 WHAT’S HAPPENED TO ‘STANDING ALONE’? HMS Chester [1916-1921] The membership might recall twelve months ago last Christmas your editor mentioned between pages 3 and 5 of the Newsletter that he had restarted an old writing project ‘Standing Alone’ about a First World War light cruiser and her company. The rewrite is now complete and is now of 224, A5 pages long, with 83 photographs, 8 chapters an Epilogue, Acknowledgements, Research sources and an Index. Did give this MS it to a couple of trusted naval friends, one an active professor the other a long standing naval and maritime book authority. Independently they both said much the same, that very few people under 50 years of age and older would want to read about a battle that took place more than a hundred years ago [Jutland] and even fewer would be interested in the story of a sixteen year old hero Boy Cornwell V.C. Had this effort been made some years ago it might have had some success, but not nowadays. That such a book would be a none starter anyway, always assuming a suitable publishing company would take it on, which they doubted. Also that to self publish not only requires the wherewithal to pay for printing but the big difficulty is in storage of the finished product and more importantly selling such a book to a skeptical trade that wants a quick turnover; where a sale or return wouldn’t even get a get a look-in on their valuable shelf space. So my 3 friends think the story a big yawn. Yet hope springs eternal. There are not many naval/maritime book publishers to approach, is your editors effort worth a consideration, watch this space. TUSCANIA and OTRANTO Talking of a hundred years ago, on a recent visit to the Isle of Islay [pronounced Eyla] that lies of the West coast of Scotland, famed for its idyllic beauty and renowned for the many quality whisky distilleries. I learned of two shipping disasters; the first was bad the second even worse. This involved two troop convoys eight months apart carrying soldiers from America to the War in France. On 5th February 1918 the Anchor Line ship Tuscania [14,348 tons] (upper) was torpedoed by a German U-boat 7 miles off Islay more than 200 soldiers and crew were lost. A month before the Armistice 6th October the Orient Line ship Otranto [12,032 tons] (lower) during a dark night in a force 11 gale collided with another convoy ship Kashmir and sank half a mile off Islay’s West coast, from over a thousand on board over 400 troops and crew perished. In both disasters the Islanders behaved heroically by helping to rescue men from the rugged shoreline, caring for those saved and collecting those bodies washed up from the sea, this latter operation lasted several days. While death was not a stranger to Islay for the small communities from the island had lost men folk from their regiment the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders fighting in France, their care for the living and the dead from these ship wrecks was noted by the American authorities. 4 A SOUTH AMERICAN TRIP Machu Picchu [Since no member has sent me any stories personal or otherwise for the newsletter, apologies for writing of further foreign travels undertaken - Ed.] Last autumn I made another visit to South America made up of eleven major countries, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. In the 1960’s the Royal Navy took me to Venezuela and Guyana [British Guiana.] Years later under my own steam I have visited Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay and Uruguay. This time its Peru and Colombia. A bad start from Heathrow airport, a three hour delay!! Arrive in Miami only to find my ongoing flight to Lima has long gone! Reach there 24 hours later. Would have liked to have seen the Capital of Peru [pop.10 million] near Callao notorious in bygone times for it’s ‘crimping industry,’ where merchant sailors were enticed ashore for free wine, women and song, then drugged and shipped out in any sea going trader to work their passage having to repay from their wages the ’blood money bounty’ the Captain had to repay the crimp. At Lima join the ‘Explore’ party of a dozen and an internal flight to Arequipa apart from the centre much of is a shanty town on the slopes of a volcano. Our local guide tells us we are at 4,000 ft. above sea level [ASL] Here we visit a nunnery long since closed and learn of the huge dowry families had to pay for their daughters to enter the order, their vows of silence and the Latin prayers they had to learn and repeat every three hours around the clock. Then there’s the museum and its one main artifact Juanita the macabre mummified body in a refrigerated glass case of a 12 year old girl sacrificed in about 1500 in a Inca ritual to pacify the gods. Her body had been discovered on top of a volcano in 5 1995 along with many artifacts. We learn too of the Inca Empire and of how it was crushed by the Spanish conquistadors not only by their superior weapons and war like tactics but also by the diseases they brought such as smallpox, measles and VD. It didn’t help that the Inca tribes squabbled amongst themselves trying to combat these foreign invaders who killed their peoples and plundered the Inca gold and silver. For a couple of days there was much travel by mini bus, passing fields and scrub land with many herds of Llamas and alpacas till we reach very thin air at the highest point of the tour above sea level at nearly 6,000 metres or about 19,000ft. Thoughts of a couple of years ago visiting Lhasa in Tibet when I had breathing problems in the thin air. Next day an early start to see Canon del Colca canyon and tight elbow room with other tour parties to witness many Andean condors putting on a superb display of effortless flight gliding on the thermal air currents rising from the canyon floor. Up early from a night in Cusco to take a 3 hour train journey to Agues Calientes the last stop before a hair rising bus journey to reach Machu Picchu, for all our tour party, except me, this is the highlight of the tour. There’s thousands this day to see the world iconic site and walk the many terraces, only discovered in 1911 an Inca site kept secret from Spanish conquistadors. Lake Titicaca was my main interest. At 12,500 ft. above sea level the lake is recognized as the highest navigable water in the world.
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