Newsletter Date Volume 1010, Issue 2 SOUNDINGS Eden Killer Whale Museum/ 02 64962094/ Email [email protected] Special Interest Sailing the Young Endeavour Articles: Captain Mike Gough, enjoying Volunteers of EKWM were Sailing the young excited to join a group from his second two year stint on the endeavour Tulgeen to sail Snug Cove on vessel, said 1,300 youngsters have the Young Endeavour . There learned how to sail a tall ship Captain’s log was no need to press gang this under traditional navy protocols since the ship has been in The young bryde happy crew who joined the seasoned youth crew and navy Australian hands. A rum tale personnel who had been on After day 8 of the voyage the board for 10 days of their 11 day International yout h crew take control of the voyage. women’s day vessel and sailed her for a day The tall ship, built by Brooke unassisted. Aged from 16 – 23 Life membership Marine and designed by naval their confidence is apparent. for Stephanie architect Mudie Young was They work smoothly as a team. rawlings given to Australia by the British While in Snug Cove the youth It’s all happening government in 1988 as a gift to crew, invited by HMS Darwin to at ekwm celebrate our bicentenary of come on board for a tour of the colonisation. ship, enjoyed a fast trip back in Governor Darwin’s General This Brigantine is 44 meters in inflatable rib. Sir peter length and has a draught of 4 While on board we were invited cosgrove visits meters. Her ten sails carry a to help hoist sails, steer the ship ekwm total area of 511 square metres . and check out below decks. A We were excited when the crew brief tour of the engine room with 1 Jib Sehgi at unfurled the sails as we cruised 2 Forestaysail Aitchison engineer Brett was an added cottage out into Snug Cove. The sound bonus. Brett dresses up as 3 Course of wind in the rigging was “Nanna Diesel” each morning, 4 Topsail memorable. teaching the youth crew about 5 Topgallant 6 Main Staysail Terri from Bombala greeted us, tidiness on board by picking up 7 Topgallant Staysail explaining how she applied via any items of clothing left lying 8 Fisherman Staysail the Young Endeavour web site, around. 9 Main Sail then was selected in the ballot. The young sailors supplied us 10 Main Gaff Topsail Quickly overcoming her fear of with breakfast and lunch as the heights she climbed the rope ship rolled in the swell and cut Find us on ladders to set sails in heavy through soaking squalls. swells. The Captain’s Log to how to fight a fire. Our crew have a Youthie Captain Flick . I would like to wide range of knowledge and this is part inform you all that the Captain and crew of the reason we all work so well have gone on holiday and the Youthies together. Our last challenge of the have now taken command of the fine vessel 24hours was to row a boat to the beach that is the Young Endeavour. The running in the bay and take a pic of us with our of the ship for the next 24 hours will be youthie crew mascot (our fellow youthie performed completel y by the youth crew of crew member Dan dressed as a beautiful voyage 6 of 2017. After a fun filled siren). Captain Mike Today we woke up morning, which included happy hour and to a beautiful morning in Twofold Bay jumping into the water from the rope swing, thanks to the trusty work of our youthie EKWM sailors Barb Reed and captain and crew handed over the ship and navigators Kate and Rory. The youthie Marg Sheaves embarking. let us take the helm of this vessel . Captain crew put in a hard night of work to reach Mike Our morning started with a morning our final destination and we are all very brief run by the trusty youthie crew, it was proud of our efforts. However it was a 7 funny, entertaining and educational. Then am wake up because we had tasks to do. our favourite time of day was upon us, happy hour, we had the ship shining from Check out the Young Endeavour top to bottom. After happy hour we had website for more Captain’s Log three of our youthie crew present us with a entries – you will find them very special interest and talents, from AFL skills entertaining and informative! SOUNDINGS Page 2 of 4 by parasites and small The young Bryde the three distinctive ridges sharks. Midway through March, that run from the tip of the before delivering a guided broad rostrum to the rear of This whale – also known tour, to my delight the the head, level with the two appropriately as Eden’s EKWM siren sounded as a blowholes. Cat Balou Whale – can live up to 50 Bryde whale was sighted in alerted us of this visitor as years and has also been seen in Western Australian Twofold Bay. their tour had a wonderful sighting of the whale. waters. Pronounced “broo-dess” this beautiful whale is named The skin of the Bryde’s after Johan Bryde, who whale is black or dark grey, helped construct the first with white patches on the South African whaling throat and chin, and may factory in the early 1900s . sometimes appear mottled due to pock marks caused It can be distinguished by A Rum Tale How involved are you in Preservation Island , situated hostiles. They finally arrived at t he your research? Meeting in the Furneaux Group north cove at Wattamolla on the 15 th of researcher/historian Kevin of Tasmania. May with sailors William Clark Jewell, a man on a mission, I He and his crew were able to and John Bennet and a lascar the began to see where serious get to shore safely and only survivors of their arduous research can take you. This managed to salvage most of journey. The last to die on the focused, and extremely fit 79 the cargo. The casks of rum march was killed by Dilba, a native year old, is retracing a were stored out of reach of known for his ferocity, at Hat Hill. remarkable journey from the the crew on nearby aptly They signaled to a boat out fishing northern end of the 90 mile named Rum Island. A party to take them on to Sydney. beach in Gippsland to Port of seventeen men, led by Memorial plaque at Tathra And the fate of that cargo of rum – Below – Matthew Flinders Jackson, as documented in first mate Hugh Thompson the schooner Francis and sloop map of Preservation Island. diaries kept by officers of with four European seamen Eliza were dispatched to collect the the ship-wrecked Sydney and 12 Lascars (Indian survivors and what remained of the Cove, a Bengal trading sailors) set off in the ship’s cargo. The crew of the Sydney vessel previously registered longboat for Port Jackson - Cove had built shelters and as the Begum Shaw in India 400 nautical miles away. Ill survived by eating shearwaters in 1796. fortune struck again, and until their rescue. On the way back This vessel was the first they were wrecked on 90 to Sydney the Eliza was separated merchant shipwreck in our mile beach. from the Francis and shipwrecked history and carried a cargo of Kevin is re-enacting their losing the crew and eight of the speculative trade goods trek north, recording details Sydney Cove survivors. including 7,000 gallons of of the terrain and comparing The Francis made a further salvage alcohol – mostly rum, sacks his findings to diary entries, voyage in December and again in of rice and sugar, tobacco, putting names to the rivers, January 1798. Matthew salted meat, Chinese streams and land features Flinders was aboard the third ceramics and tea, barrels of first seen and recorded in voyage, assigned to make tar, casks of vinegar, 1797. His findings will be geographical observations. He footwear, soap, candles, collated into a historical noted petrels and seals, and located textiles, a musical organ and volume to be stored at the and named the Kent Group of a horse drawn buggy. Wollongong Library. This islands. Departing on the 10 th of 600 mile journey was fraught November 1796, she with dangers as the ill- At the same time George Bass was encountered heavy seas in equipped party, with very on his whaleboat voyage following December, and began to few possessions and the coast of the mainland, and he leak. In January off the east provisions, encountered had thought to make for the Sydney coast of Tasmania the groups of natives both Cove to replenish his provisions weather worsened and the hostile and friendly. The but leaks in the boat prevented him pumps were manned diary records the names of setting that course. He did, continuously. On the 9 th of Aboriginal tribes and natives however, encounter a group of February with water up to as, with luck, they gave gifts escaped convicts marooned on an the lower deck hatches the to tribal elders thereby island. They, too, had been making Sydney Cove was in danger paying respect and thus were for the ship with the false hope of of sinking so Captain Guy provided permissio n to travel re-floating her and making good Hamilton ran her aground on through tribal land, though their escape. the island now called some were speared by SOUNDINGS Page 3 of 4 International Women’s Day produce market which of course Over 60 women turned out holiday working in hotels led her to setting up Sprout – her on March the 8 th to here.