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March 2013 Edited by Jonathan Seagrave EDITORIAL And 90 The Newsletter of the SOUTH WEST MARITIME HISTORY SOCIETY ISSN 1360-6980 CONTENTS –NO. 90 – March 2013 Edited by Jonathan Seagrave EDITORIAL and MEMBERSHIP 4 REPORTS OF MEETINGS New Researchers Conference Bristol 7 ARTICLES Kathleen and May- the story sofar Jonathan Seagrave 11 The Memorialisation Proposal SWMHS Committee 13 Kingswear Castle Mike Tedmore 17 Do We Rely Too Much on Electronics? Tom Peppit 20 Home Waters- Boating World Martin Hazell 22 REVIEWS The Plimsoll Sensation. Nicolette Jones Rev. Julia Creeke 23 The Levelling Sea Philip Marsden. Rev Mike Bender 25 BOOKS RECEIVED 26 LETTERS NOTES AND NEWS 27 WEBERY 32 OFFICERS and COMMITTEE back cover WEBSITE. http://www.swmaritime.org.uk/ 1 Individual contributions © Individual contributors. Entire journal © South West Maritime History Society 2011. 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. £20.00 from April 2014 or £15 if paid by Standing Order. Students can take advantage of our special annual subscription of £10. A reminder/invoice will be included with the June edition. All correspondence to the Membership Secretary. Next copy date: May 1st 2013 2 FUTURE MEETINGS AND OTHER EVENTS 2013 April 6th. South West Shipping Show, Portishead- Society stand 2013 May 8-9 60 Old Gaffers at Mayflower Marina, Plymouth ffi oga.org 2013 May 11 SWMHS - Buckland Abbey (calling notice enclosed ) Includes a talk on Drake by Sue Jackson. 2013 May 18 Plymouth's Polish Naval memories from World War 2 and beyond. Martin Hazell 11am to 12:30 at Plymouth North Hill main library upstairs meeting room. Free entry. 2013 June 8 SWMHS - Annual General Meeting Topsham. 2013 June 9 and 29th SWMHS - Sail in Cornubia from Plymouth Mayflower Marina (calling notice enclosed) 2013 July 13 SWMHS - Devonport Navy Base South Yard ffi Martin Hazell. 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. Events organised by other Societies are listed in the email “ Echoes” . If you have changed email address do let the Membership Secretary know, if you wish to continue receiving this. 3 EDITORIAL AND MEMBERSHIP The list of heritage vessels leaving the South West in recent months seems to go on and on. The Charlestown fleet and Morwenna have left, and Tangaroa in Bristol is up for sale. Balmoral isn’t sailing this year . There probably won’t be many tall masts at the Bristol Harbour festival this June. On the other hand, Keewaydin and Ruth have arrived in the area. It would be easy to be depressed at the fate of heritage vessels, but surely now is the time to press for real change. The fate of the Kathleen and May and her prospective sale to the Middle East has taken a great deal of time in the past couple of months, and I would like to thank all of you who have helped our campaign by signing our e-petition, writing letters, and encouraging others to do the same. More details are given in the update article. The petition is open for a year, is much wider than the Kathleen and May, so do keep encouraging more signups. Of course, we all recognise that ships have always been bought and sold abroad. If K&M were sold to a North European owner, there would be regrets but maybe not great concern. A particular issue with K&M is that there is doubt as to whether a new owner will understand what is needed to protect and preserve her in tropical waters. The former Captain Scott was sold to the Omani navy many years ago and has been well looked after, but the general record of heritage vessels sold abroad is not encouraging, a gloomy catalogue of wreck, fire and rot. This is why our e- petition was framed to change the rules so that key heritage ships are never sold outright, but long term charters with suitable conditions are permitted. It also really is high time the Lottery recognised the need to support ongoing costs. The key to the future is surely purposeful preservation. Ships just moored alongside will rarely have huge public appeal. The most successful ones are very interactive, like the Great Britain, with a strong education component; or like Bessie Ellen, offering trips, charters and sail training. 4 For many vessels there are practical limits to this, but supporting the summer festivals is a way for the Lottery to greatly enhance the festivals and offer support to a wide range of vessels as well. Your Committee have also suggested that K&M could sensibly be used as a mobile exhibition vessel as part of the well funded WWI memorialisation. The idea of mobile educational tours is a wider one, and not confined to the Kathleen and May or WW1. To combat the “ sea blindness” so eloquently expressed by Martin Hazell in SWS 89, we perhaps need to promote the idea of a range of such tours, tied in with the educational curriculum. At the same time, the Committee would like to take advantage of the higher profile for the Society our efforts have created, to bring together like minded organisations to press for changes in the rules, likely to be choppy waters, but not impossible. Perhaps the most telling statistic is in the tag I have taken to putting on my emails, below. Do feel free to copy! Finally, do think about sailing on Cornubia, calling notice enclosed. Jonathan Seagrave Thought for the day. There are 500,000 listed buildings. Just 209 ships in the National Historic Fleet, part of the National Historic Ship register, which are not effectively protected. Sign our petition at 251658240http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/45755 MEMBERSHIP In the last edition, we told you that the sub was going up from April 2013. We have had problems getting direct debits organised, and have had to postpone the rise and retain SO’s for the time being. So you are let off for another year, but from April 2014, the regular subscription will be £ 15 p.a. by SO, £ 20 by cheque/cash. This year’s cash/ cheque subscription of £ 15 is now due An amended SO form for 2014 onwards will follow in the Spring edition. Do please return this promptly so we can make the change in an orderly way. 5 We still badly need a new Treasurer, Dale will soldier on till the AGM, but still wishes to stand down. Our finances aren’t complex, but we do need someone who can reclaim Gift Aid and do the Charities Commission return. Welcome Aboard Tim Beattie Falmouth Mervyn Tripp-Edwards Bristol Linda Hackett Ayr South Bruce Taylor Molton Nigel S Pearce Poole Will Franklin Dubai Nr Roger Poole Ludlow Theresa A Gibson Brixham Philip Stevens Taunton Droitwich Robert Stone Spa Carl Beeson Plymouth 6 REPORTS OF MEETINGS New Researchers Bristol 8-9 March 2013 This annual event is so well attended by Society members that Martin and I stopped counting, and like the Society, it is a very broad church. We were well looked after by the Great Britain staff and her trustees, and we had opportunities to see both the ship and the Brunel library. Our first speakers, John Armstrong and David Williams, gave an interesting presentation on the very rapid spread of the early steamships in the 1820’s and 30’s. This was aided by the absence of any need for new infrastructure, and the fact they used established technologies, which meant they were built and operated widely. They emphasised that the disciplines of a timetabled service, the possibilities of excursions and commuting, were all pioneered by steamboats well before the railways. Indeed, Bristol can lay claim to have invented the booze cruise in 1820, when a first excursion for healthy bathing to Swansea was rapidly followed by drinking trips to the Holms, a sort of duty free paradise for the more indulgent ! We heard from Benjamin Redding about the rapid development of the Navy of Henry VIII, both technically and organisationally, with the predecessor of the Navy Board being established. Joel Gillespie talked of the interesting records of Englishmen who encountered English born converts to Islam, and discussed what constitutes national identity. Several converts were Cornish, and some of us thought perhaps they had never been English! Philippa Hellawell described Sir William Petty’s early efforts to bring science to ship design within the context of the then new Royal Society, and a “ philosophy of shipping “, including a taxonomy of designs. He promoted a design of a “double bottom “ i.e. catamaran. 7 Pepys was not impressed, thinking design best left to the empirical craftsmen. The loss of his third vessel left Petty isolated, and the project disappeared. Models survive; it would be interesting to know what their sailing qualities might have been. St. Malo was a haven for pirates, privateers and smugglers, and Rebecca Simon elaborated on the reasons for this perhaps dubious distinction. Some thought the treacherous seaward approaches, as well as landward isolation, contributed to its ability to escape the rule of law.
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