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NEWS FROM THE BRIDGE NEWS OF MEMBERS
As many of you will know our Vice President Derek Downs has had to step We extend our heartfelt sympathies to Ian Browning whose wife Audrey died down owing to pressure of work and the preoccupations of the present the day after our January dinner and we also heard of the sad loss of Ken emergency situation. We very much regret losing Derek's invaluable services Wood who has died following a skiing accident. both generally and in Committee but wish him well and hope to see him back in our midst very soon. We have had a number of new members join our ranks in recent months and Happily our Honorary Editor, Richard Woodman, has agreed to step these are included below. On behalf of the Membership, may I welcome you into the breach as 'Mr Vice' which makes the Bridge top-heavy with all aboard. mariners, but that's not inappropriate for the Seven Seas Club. You may be interested to know that Richard won the 2001 Desmond Wettern Maritime John William Stocks FormerWOl (RSM), Royal Marines Media Award for his work in promoting the work of the sea services through Hog Penny his journalism and authorship. A decanter and cheque were presented to him Higher Merley Lane last November at a ceremony aboard HQS Wellington by Lord Strathcona in Corfe Mullen the presence of Desmond Wettern's widow. Wettern was a well-respected Wimbourne journalist and RNR officer who persistently reminded successive Dorset BH21 3EG 01202 884252 governments of the importance of the sea services to this country. As Richard points out, these aims are in keeping with our own. Proposed by Jim Ellard and seconded by Richard Quirk
David Stollery MBE Retired Corps RSM, Royal Marines Woodlawns The Club's financial affairs are as follows: Bow Street Current account £ 2728:48 Great Ellingham Laristan Fund £ 1025:66 Norfolk NR17 lJB 01953 452643 Business Reserve Fund £ 2025:25 Capital Reserve £16759:35 Proposed by Richard Quirk and seconded by Jim Ellard
Since our December Magazine I am happy to report that our Club Dinners Stephen Froggatt Retired C/Sgt, Royal Marines continue to be well attended and our Guest Speakers have been Adm Roy 28 The Casemates Clare (Now the Director of the National Maritime Museum),Captain Martin HM Tower of London Appleton RN Director of The King George's Fund For Sailors. and Major EC3N4AD 0207 488 5738 Phil Ashby QGM RM who enthralled us with an excellent account of his leading his men to safety having escaped capture in Sierra Leone. Proposed by Jim Ellard and seconded by Keith Hanson
John Mankerty O.B.E. Cdr Martin K Johnson RN 38 Years in the RN as an Air President 135 Lion Road Engineer and Pilot Bexleyheath KentDA68PA 0208 304 6363
Proposed by John Mankerty O.B.E. and seconded by Frank Whymark
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Capt David M Wright CPM at sea 1948-196l,Hong Kong 1961- 22 Ringmer Avenue 1992,1992-date Marine Consultant Tall Ships Races, but which would be suitable to compete against each other Fulham in an event of their own. Their managers have therefore put pressure on London SW6 5LW 0207 731 0307 ASTO to organise a new series of Small Ships Races on an annual basis within European waters. As a consequence ASTO organised a trial event Proposed by Mike Pinner and seconded by Jim Ellard round the Isle of Wight in 2000, which was won by the Meridian Trust's Richard Langhorn, hence the involvement of Tony Weeks. As a result of this Mr Harold J Ford Ex-RN Chief ERA at sea 1945-1955 success ISTA has agreed to organise a race between Torquay and St Malo in 22 Berkhampstead Road responsible for ships' propulsion June of this year. The 2003 race is provisionally planned to run between Upper Belvedere machinery, aircraft catapults etc. Milford Haven and Cork. Kent DA17 SEA 01322 437357 These races are likely to raise considerable interest and should attract entries Proposed by John Mankerty O.B.E. and seconded by Frank Whymark from all over Europe and it is hoped that the fleet will consist of upwards of sixty boats, which would involve several hundreds of people. ASTO will Capt Paul Hail wood MN Master Mariner, 20 years at sea, 4 in probably seek sponsorship and the event will be divided into two classes, with 6 Coleridge Close command, 7 years on square rigged minor prizes being offered to encourage a wide level of participation and Warsash sail training vessels. recognise all forms of achievement. These minor prizes will be financed by Southampton S031 9TP 01489 581072 ASTO. A major trophy, which was a prize in the America's Cup Jubilee Celebrations, has been secured as the main prize. This will probably be Proposed by Lt Cdr D Lee RN and seconded by Capt R Woodman awarded to the crew which makes the greatest contribution to international understanding, as is the case with the Tall Ships Races. THEPROPOSEDLAR1STANTROPHY The prize-giving ceremony is one of the high-lights of the event and is usually The Club has received a request to provide a trophy for future Small Ships held in the centre of the host port after the crews have paraded through the Races from Tony Weeks, the Director of the Meridian Trust who spoke to the town. This is a major event for the host port with bands, sideshows and Club a couple of years ago. considerable tourist and spectator potential. The prizes are given away by a mixture of people, local dignitaries, the STA and well-known mariners of one There have been many changes and developments in sail-training since the sort or another. first race in 1956, both internationally and in the UK. The original organisers, the Sail Training Association (STA), discontinued the Small Ships Races in The Seven Seas Club Committee is now actively and favourably considering 1987 in order to concentrate on the more glamorous end of the spectacle, the Tony Week's request. Matters of detail, such as exactly what the prize will be large Tall Ships events. These have been such a success that they are now given for, are still to be resolved, but in view of the nature of the investment, managed by the International Sail Training Association (ISTA), leaving the it has already been agreed with ASTO that ownership of the trophy will STA to concentrate on their core business of running their own vessels, the remain in the hands of the Seven Seas Club. It will also be of interest to brigs Stavros S. Niarchos and the Prince William. Other sail training is Members that it is the Committee's intention to name the trophy after the provided by various charities, many of which are well known to members. steam-ship Laristan. Almost all are members of the Association of Sail Training Organisations (ASTO, which co-ordinates their activities and acts as a trade-association. Further details will follow in the June edition. ASTO currently has over two dozen active members who operate training vessels. Many of these are not large enough to qualify for entry into the Based on information received from Ray Kay 4 5
FEATURE five or six years. Come into my cabin and let us drink a glass of wine to the welfare of the town," said Blake in 1652, from his flagship, to a boatload of Under the rule of the Puritan Commonwealth which followed the execution of Dutch fishermen. He must have noted that the wealthy burghers of the Charles I and the end of the so-called 'English' Civil War. the navy ceased to powerful Dutch Republic did very nicely without any King. be 'Royal' and, with republican zeal the rank of admiral was abolished, despite the fact that the word derives from Arabic. Instead the navy's flag• Robert Blake's reputation was founded, not at sea but in defending towns, officers became Generals-at-Sea, a not entirely inappropriate rank given the leading rebels against Charles I. In 1640, Parliament had to be called by the fact that they had mostly started life as soldiers! Their exploits against the impecunious King. Robert Blake became MP for Bridgwater. This was the exiled Royalists and the Dutch have been largely eclipsed by the heroes of a Long Parliament, which, once it divided, caused the Civil War. Blake gained later age, but their contribution to the rise of Britain as a sea-power is command of a troop of dragoons. In the summer of 1643 he was in Bristol, incontrovertible. Here is the first part of an account of one of these ignored besieged and assaulted by Prince Rupert. In command of the key Priors Hill sea-officers. fort, Blake held out while the city was surrendered. Such was his reputation he was sent off to Lyme Regis. Here, besieged for 3 months from April to Robert Blake (1598- 1657) June 1644 by Prince Maurice, he again saw fierce fighting - 400 were slaughtered at one assault. The battling citizens of "heretic Lyme" (2) Part One - The Roundhead defended their city and accepted Blake as its leader. Animating and encouraging them, he saw them win through. Blake's reputation as a leader The British Royal Navy's tradition of success was built up on three men, amongst the Saints (3) was now established. Against the King's best outstanding amongst numerous great seamen and leaders. While two of these generals, outgunned and leading raw people, the lesson for the future admiral are still legends, the third is almost unknown. You will know much of Drake, was clear. In the face of unfavourable odds it is the motivation of the troops - even more of Nelson, but who knows much about Robert Blake? Is our high morale - which will ensure success. Sent next to Taunton as Governor, ignorance of him intentional? Yes. He was small, ugly and bad tempered, a he installed himself in the Castle of this emphatically Puritan town, revolutionary and most stubborn rebel, a convinced republican and a King summoned the citizens to the church and briefed them of his expectations. killer, a religious zealot and a misogynist - not qualities which usually The success at Lyme was repeated. Besieged from September 1644 until July commend themselves to the reverence of the British. 1645, he led the people of Taunton on frequent sallies. Running out of match for the muskets, he stripped the citizens of their bed cords and gave them to If you want to know about Robert Blake get hold of Michael Baumber's his soldiers. "We neither fear your menaces nor accept your offers", he told excellent and readable book "General-at- Sea", on which I lean entirely. the Royalist commander, and on another occasion assured the townspeople that there would be no surrender while he still had boots to eat "and I have The eldest son of a merchant of Bridgwater (1) in Somerset, his early years four pairs of boots"! must have featured both ships, and talk with mariners. As a youth he amused himself on the water in nearby marshes, going after fish, and "snaring swans". Mter such stuff Robert Blake was a Parliamentary Hero - praised in the At 16 he went to Oxford University - where he acquired a knowledge of the ,J pamphlets, a full Colonel, influential on the County Committee and still license and the power of the court. He seems to have been popular and in the Governor of Taunton. Somerset held to the Parliament in the Second Civil undergraduate tavern talk he acquired a reputation as fiercely anti• war, and at its end Taunton was amongst those towns which petitioned monarchical. Blake then joined the trading fraternity of Bridgwater as an Parliament - "No Addresses" (to that Man of Blood, Charles Stuart - get rid agent and merchant. But the wars with Spain had killed off the town's trade, of him!). so imagine the frustration of war again in 1625 - particularly as it was bungled by royal favourites. Blake went to Holland - but was it trade or political expediency that took him there? "I lived in Schiedam in my youth,
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By 1649 Blake had the required credentials when the very businesslike- and Foot Notes now Republican - new Government, recognised the importance of the Navy (1) Bridgwater still has an "Admiral Blake Museum" and got Parliament to vote £480,000 per annum to it. In the following 3 (2) The town was so called by Queen Mary Tudor - that is, it was full of years, the Committee of the Navy, chaired by Valentine Walton, oversaw the Puritans. In 1645 Lyme had 25 preachers. expansion of the State's Navy from 39 to 86 ships (4). Three reliable men \ (3) As the victorious party styled themselves - God had blessed their >I with military ability (and loyalty to the new order) were chosen as "Generals• revolution (they had won). '\ at-sea": Richard Deane, Edward Popham and Robert Blake (5). .! (4) What ships' names ring out here! Some ancient- Leopard, Bonadventure, Elizabeth, StGeorge. Some pregnant with future greatness- Triumph, Lion, Blake was a stem ethical Puritan (6), concentrating on deeds that would "save Victory. Some resonant of Puritan virtues: Resolution, Amity. Some his own soul alive". It was said of him that "The Lord has showed him what recalling recent triumphs: Naseby, Winceby, Langport. he should do and he must be constant to the end". What he found himself (5) Popham died in 1651 and was replaced by Monck. Deane was killed in called to do included doing daring things for the ordinary seaman. For he 1653 -the first broadside at The Gabbard decapitated him, to the sorrow of found all he required in the fleet he came to love (7). He made new rules so The Lord Protector. that the seamen received prize money on enemy ships if they sank. He (6) Blake was what was coming to be called a "Presbyterian". This made him extracted money from the State for them when they were sick and for their a lover of order in the church, but not of Bishops or the sacraments. In pensions. He founded a hospital for them at Deal. He got them higher pay. Taunton he supressed a sectarian meeting. He avoided fighting on Sunday. He made sure that adequate food supplies were on their ships. When new In the Mediterranean, he avoided contact with Roman Catholic diplomats. men came aboard his ship he took with each of them a glass of his own wine. (7) He was the oldest of nine children- but only one was a sister. His Mother must have been continuously pregnant or nursing a baby for his first 20 years. Above all Robert Blake pioneered The Blockade as a weapon of war. He never married. Women play no part in his life. There is no contemporary Tenaciously ruling the enemy coast, denying him the seas by blocking him or posthumous comment on any scandal. into his ports - all that was Robert Blake's idea. And so was the deployment to achieve it -an inshore squadron with a fleet cruising out at sea. Oliver Woodman
This was innovative thinking in 1650 when Blake blockaded Prince Rupert's Royal fleet in Kinsale. Although Rupert slipped out and got to Portugal, no ROPEYARNS - 1 good came of it for the royalists. They were shipwrecked and chased by Blake. Mter some months Rupert gave up and sold his last ship to the HIGH MOORING CHARGES French. That was because the Mediterranean had been made to hot for him• by Robert Blake. There was as a result no longer any Royalist threat at sea - When I cough up the horrendous mooring charges these days, my thoughts the new Republic was secure. wander back to the Victory Fleet Review on the Clyde in 1947 when the ) Marines of 416 Flotilla based at Roseneath provided liberty boats. The Picture Robert Blake then, on his flagship's quarter deck. A small man \ destroyer Bicester of the Nore Flotilla, to which we were attached, was (5'6"), dark and swarthy. He wears a beaver hat, his own long hair (no wig), ) allocated as guardship for the Seawhanaka Trophy Races for International 6- a heavy buff coat, cuirass, baggy breeches, boots, and a big orange sash metres off Dunoon where we discovered the delights of the local dance-hall. around his waist. One of "The Grandees", a founder of the English Republic, consenting to the execution of the king, entrusted to chastise Princes. A Once the glory had departed, life seemed tame back at the base, so Sgt message comes aboard -and he calls his Officers to move an English fleet for Jenkins suggested to us that he organise an exercise for Saturday nights which the first time through the Straits and into the Mediterranean Sea. would take us down river to Dunoon. The LCPL (Landing Craft Personnel - Light- 15 knots) was left tied up alongside the pier while we danced away the (To be continued) warm summer nights.
8 9 \, I I . Clearing Seahorse for action, Stewart began to work up onto the windward ' All went well for several weeks but eventually the powers-that-be caught up quarter of the larger Ottoman vessel, aware that she would be better manned ] with us in the form of an infuriated pier-master who was waiting for us when than his own vessel which, in addition to suffering the under-manning then ; we gathered back at the pier sometime after midnight. chronic in the Royal Navy, had men absent in prizes. By 2130, Seahorse was - coming close to the starboard beam of the 52-gun Badere-1-Za.ffer, whose l 'You can't just leave her there!' he announced in a thick accent and went on consort, Alis Fezzan, 26, was to leeward of her larger consort. All three ships to threaten hell-fire and brimstone. Sarge was distinctly worried. We tried to had swung to the west in the darkness, with the light breeze on their starboru:d calthings down bt the pier-master j st seemed to get more and, more quarters, with Seahorse loo n? very .close o Badere-1- .ffer. At this excited. I forget who It was, but some gemus suddenly thought to ask: What juncture Stewart called upon his pdot, a Gibraltarian who, havmg been a slave l d'you charge to moor here?' of the Ottomans, spoke Turkish, to hail the Badere-1-Za.ffer and demand she iJ f surrender. · 'Tuppence a ton!' the pier-master snapped back. !{', We pressed half a dollar into his hand, clambered back into our plywood box,
started the Hudson Invader engine and sped home through the night, dreaming of the lassies of Dunoon.
© Charles Stock
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A NOTABLE FRIGATE ACTION
In 1807 the Ottoman Empire was in the throes of a power-struggle and
relations between the British, then engaged in the great war with Napoleonic France, and the Turks remained strained. Generally there was a desire not to press the Turks as relentlessly as other French allies. The only formality which had been concluded was 'an understanding' that no Turkish men-of•
war would cruise in the Aegean or seek to exact tribute from the Greeks, and on that basis the C-in-C of the Mediterranean, Lord Collingwood had left Captain Stewart in the frigate Seahorse, 42, to ensure compliance with this. N115 5£AffO t= .. ;z?+: / However, the Turks wished to extirpate a nest of Epirot rebels engaged in COPYI®!IrTONYI'ImN!
Illustration of H M S Seahorse Anchored off Skfros on 181 July, Stewart learned that Turkish men-of-war Reproduced by kind permission of the artist were off Chiliodhromia in the Northern Sporades and he went in search of
them. By late afternoon of 5th, having shortened down to triple-reefed This summons was ignored by Captain Scandril Kichuc-Ali, whereupon topsails in heavy squalls, the weather moderated and Seahorse gave chase to Stewart fired a double-shotted broadside into the Ottoman ship. Scandril her quarry sailing south in a NNE'ly breeze. responded immediately and a sharp action began, with Scandril edging away to allow the Alis Fezzan to engage while Stewart pressed him hard. As soon
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after her, crossed her stem and raked her with her starboard broadside. Captain Scandril remained sitting on his quarter-deck, refusing to surrender to as Captain Duragardi-Ali's guns could play across Badere-1-Zaffer's stem and the infidels despite the decimation and wreckage all about him. However, a hit Seahorse, Scandril swung to starooard intending to run alongside Seahorse few of his officers seized him and hauled down the Ottoman colours. Brought and ooard her. Perceiving this, Stewart had his frigate's helm put hard over, aboard Seahorse, Scandril was reluctant to surrender his fine, Damascus hauled his yards round and luffed up sharp into the wind, continuing the sword, meanwhile the British prize crew under Lieutenant Downie, who was manoeuvre until he had worked smartly round onto the port tack and exposed afterwards promoted, took possession of a shattered Badere-1-Zaffer. his starboard battery to the enemy. Wrecked aloft, hulled and leaking, she had lost about 170 killed and 200 wounded, many mortally, out of a total complement of 543, manifest Frustrated in his intentions, Scandril wore his ship and both vessels now ran evidence of the desperate courage of her company. The British frigate's sea• ENE some distance apart but converging. Seeing this Duragardi-Ali also paid time and experience told against her enemy, Stewart's ship-handling was off before the wind and, at about 2200, found Seahorse coming up fast on his superb, particularly in a night action. Seahorse had suffered the minor loss of port quarter, taking the wind from his sails and rapidly overtaking Alis her mizen topmast, though her sails were much perforated. As for casualties, Fezzan. Surging up, Stewart fired his starboard broadside into the Ottoman she had only five men killed and 10 wounded out of a company of 251 men sloop and in fifteen minutes wrought havoc and caused an explosion on and boys. board. Duragardi-Ali luffed under the stem of Seahorse and broke off the Taking her prize in tow, Seahorse arrived at Miconi despite an attempt by engagement. Stewart stood on after Badere-1-Zaffer, closing her with such Scandril, who had been returned to his former ship, to blow her up. It took rapidity that at 2235 he clewed up Seahorse's topgallants and re-engaged. three days to make Badere-1-Zaffer into a sea-worthy state while Stewart Both vessels squared their yards before the now N'ly breeze. For some returned her crew to Constantinople in Greek vessels. Badere-1-Zaffer was minutes Seahorse's starooard guns fired at Badere-1-Zaffer's port battery until towed to Malta and sold to Maltese traders who loaded her with a cargo of Scandril again attempted to close and board, but in doing so, Seahorse Egyptian cotton for London, after which she made a return voyage to Brazil scraped ahead of Badere-1-Zaffer clearing a crowd of boarders mustered on before being broken up at Deptford. her forecastle with grape from her stem chase guns. Mter the action Seahorse took a British diplomat to Constantionople where she passed Alis Fezzan in a dismantled state. The diplomatic initiative Both ships suffered minor damage in this brush, and Stewart allowed Scandril resulted in a peace treaty being signed with the new sultan, Mahmud II, on sm to catch up, reopening fire as he did so but with his port guns exchanging fire January 1809. with Badere-1-Zaffer's starboard cannon, soon after which the latter's mizen topmast fell. It was now approaching midnight and the guns of the Ottoman © Richard Woodman were falling silent. Stewart summoned Badere-1-Zaffer repeatedly, but no reply was forthcoming. Seeing the fall of her two remaining topmasts, Stewart A PASSING THOUGHT crossed her stem and ranged up close on his opponent's port quarter to repeat his summons. Scandril replied with the discharge of some quarter guns It was a very cold winter. A sparrow had spent two nights out with only the whereupon Seahorse 'instantly discharged her starboard broadside'. meagre shelter of a tree. He decided that he could not survive a third night, so he left the tree to find better shelter. As he flew he got colder until his little It was now about 0115 on the 6th July. Both antagonists hove-to, heading wings froze solid and he fell to the ground. As he lay freezing he realised that west, their exhausted crews falling asleep at their stations, though the British his end was nigh. He prayed for death to come quickly, when suddenly in his fired the occasional gun 'to keep the Turks awake'. semi-conscious state he had a feeling of being enveloped in a warm covering. He regained consciousness and found that a cow had made a luxurious At daylight Badere-1-Zaffer was seen under-way, her shattered courses deposit all over him. squared before the wind and her ensign still aloft. Seahorse made sail
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The new lease of life and the supreme comfort made him very happy, and he started to sing. A passing cat heard the chirping, located the heap and carefully removed the excrement to reveal the sparrow, which it promptly ate.
There are three morals to this story:
l.If someone shits on you, they are not necessarily your enemy. 2.If someone digs you out of the shit, they are not necessarily your friend. 3.If you are in the shit and happy, keep your mouth shut!
Supplied by Frank Whymark (Well, I'm not taking the blame- HonEd)
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THE FULL RIGGED SIDP MACQUARIE.1875
Built as a Blackwall 'frigate' for the firm of R. and H. Green and named the Melbourne, this fine ship sailed under the command of Captain Marsden for Melbourne, Australia, with a general cargo and sixty passengers in 1875. She measured 270 feet on a registered tonnage of 1,857 tons and cost £42,000, a magnificent ship for this prestigious trade. In 1887 she was bought by Devitt and Moore and renamed Macquarie, by which she is best known. The passenger trade to Australia had by this time been taken up by steamships and the Macquarie was converted as a cadet ship, the 1890s being a time when officer recruitment into the Mercantile Marine was causing concern. Under Captain Corner the first cadet crew took the ship from London to Sydney in ILLUSTRATION OF MACQUARIE 86 days and Corner, a keen photographer has left a fine record of this full• rigged ship. Mter six commercially successful voyages as a training ship Devitt and Moore sold her to Norwegian interests at a tenth of the cost of her Jack Spurling's fine illustration of Macquarie for the long defunct Blue Peter building. She was converted to a barque and renamed Fortuna. In due course magazine she was sold on and by 1920 had become a coal hulk in Sydney. Sic Transit gloria mundi... CLUB NOTICES
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CLUB DINNERS DATES FOR YOUR DIARY. 2002 /' !
ll Friday 26 April Ladies Night , mqe Jleep ' j Thursday 30 May Annual General Meeting Jim & joy Ella rd
Friday 14June Annual Summer Function Traditional 16th Century Pub Thursday 26 September Club Dinner Lunches & Evening Meals Sunday 29 September Club Church Service (St Peter ad Vincula, The Tower) Genuine Home Made Food
Wednesday 16 October Annual national Service for Seafarers (St Paul's) Thursday 1 Minu te from J4 of M25- Signposted 'Well Hill '
31 October Trafalgar Night Dinner TEL 01959 534457 Thursday 21 November Cl!Jb Dinner - Note early date.
Friday 6 December Christmas Party
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