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Issue no.92
October ZOLS
Yet though her splendour may have ceased to be she played her sovereign part in making me. - John Masefield
MERCHANT NAW DAY SEPTEMBER 3RD
MOSMAN WAR MEMORIAL
After some not
so
good weather reports it turned out to be a pleasant day, and the service was able to proceed
without us having to use our umbrella's.
A good attendance overall with
approximately about forty to fifty
persons attending.
The Vindicatrix had eight members in
attendance with tvvo supporters, (one
Iady from Queensland and *Barbara
Brown, * our photographer).
' Left to right' Chris Byford, George
Murray, Laurice Butler, Peter
Bearman, Kim Cohen (Queensland
Vindicatrix secretaty), Richard Brown,
Colin Macleod, David Partridge, and
Alex
Dilworth The Master of Ceremonies was
the Mosman Sub-Branch President lan
Henderson.
Dignitaries to speak at the service were
Mosman Deputy Mayor Cr Roy Bendall (welcome address), Srsfer Mary Leahy who read the Naval Psalm,
Thanksgiving and gave praises to Queen and Nation. Mr Louis Bonnici MN (UK), Mr Steve Vella (poem), An
address by Commodore Rod Nairn AM MN (Retired). Commemoration of the Fallen, Cr Roy Bendall; followed by
Iaying of wreaths , and the Naval Ode by Mr Don Kennedy; Then the playing of the 'Last Post' and National
Anthem. We must also give thanks to Eileen Henderson (lan's wtfe) for the organisation.
,,LEST
WE FORGET"
It is also very pleasing to see so many more Council's in the UKflying the Red Ensign on this day.
Rooms floating without gravity
Are help when one is all at sea
Not place thats built by rays and yet
Its for its beams that it is set.
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Although our planned trip to Windang turned into
a bit of a fizzer, Saturday night at the local Bowling
club, we had a very good value for money meal.
David Patridge arrived on sunday for the bbq,
Sunday evening was spent back at the bowling
club where I won two meat trays. RB
on to their reputation as the nost dangerous vessel types,
proving responsible for more than half of all losses. The
HISTORIC FRIGATE
waters around the British Isles, including the North Sea,
English Channel and Bay of Biscay, have been the iocation of
18% of all shipping casualties involving vessels of 100gt and
above across the world since 2005, with 4,381 incidents.
The region was also the scene of the second-highestnurnber
of casualties during 2014, witir 465 incidents, up 297o yearon-year. However , putting this in to perspective, these
regions ate also sorne of the busiest in the world Ibr maritime
Preservation of HMS \Tarrior has been given a major boost
with the awatd of f2.6 milhon in the Hedtage Lonery
funding. 'Warrior's bulwark's and the water bar that
serves
to
traffic. The
East Mediterranean and Black Sea region saw
490 casualties, up 57o year-onJear, making it the rnost
dangeror.rs region in the world for shipping.
make watertight the junction berween her deck and iron hull,
have failed and are deteriorating to a point wl-rich places her
RMS Campania was in her day a quite extraordinary large
weil
at significant risk.
as fast
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The Lottery award covers more than two thirds of the cost
ofthe urgent repairs needed, and a fund raising project has
been launched to raise
as
ship.
li lil(
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ri
!1 million to enable further
improvements to the exhibition areas inside the ship.
Varrior, the world's first ocean-going iron-annoured ship,
built by L)itchbr-rrn & Mare at Blackwall on the River
in 1861. She was a leap into the
unknown when ordered. Her combined sail and stearn
was
Thames and commissioned
propulsion gave her a top speed of 17 knots.
Prior to restoration to her original condition, \Tarrior
spent the last 50 years of her naval service as an oil hulk at
HMS Campania sinking astern after colliding with HMS
Royal Oak.
HULL LUBRICATION. Norwegian Cruise line's 164,600gt
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cruise ship'Norwegian Bliss' ordered lrorn Gerrnany's ship
builder Meyer Werft and due to be delivered in eariy 2017,
will be fitted with a silverstream hull air lubrication system to
reduce trictional resistance. Produced by Silverstrearn
Technologies in the LlK, the system produces a thin layer of
micro bubbles that creates an 'air carpet' along the hull of the
to improve operational efTiciency and reduce fuel
vessel
consulnption. A number of Japanese ships have already been
fitted with similar air lubrication systerns and the sysfefir was
recently fested on a 40,000dwt products tanker witl'r fuel
'We
probably all remember the Shaw Savill Liner 'Southern
Cross' helow is a photo I took on rbe 2-10'2015 of a bulk
carrier with the same narne departing Newcastle NSrV.
savings of 4.3per cent.
'LOSSES'
losses in the Shipping indrrstry fell to their lowest level for
in7014, with just 75 large vessels lost worldwide,
around haif the mrmber seen in 2005. However, Britain has
10 years
rnanaged to buck the trend, witnessing the highest number of
shipping casualties since the start of the period under
consideration.
According to the latest report, there were 2,773 shipping
casualties globally (including total losses) during 2014.
December is the worst month for losses in the northern
hemisphere and August in the southern hemisphere. But for
every total loss
in the southern hemisphere , there
are seven
in the northern hernisphere. Cargo and fishing vessel's held
"Any young man worth his salt wants to see the world, and in
the Merchant Naqt he is able to see
it"
(maybe not so now )
to hold some of the prestigious Blue Riband speed records
for Atlantic crossings during the late 19th century'
She broke the tecord for the east bound New York to
''CROSSED THE BAR''
Norman Henry Clark'
l'9-193{l-
1G92015,
Vindicatrix- lst March*7th May 1954 (Deck).
T.S.
Norman spent approxirrrately twelve years at
moved hls family to Ausralia in 1967.
The ships Norman $/as on are
as
sea
before he
follows;
MVWarwick
Castle,
TES Tageius,
MV Patella,
TES Hadriania,
MVAptity,
TES Hemifusus,
MV Port Townsville,
MV Esso Westminster.
(pictured)
TES Volcella,
TES Zenatia,
TES Acavus,
MV Sycamore, MV Port Quebec, MV Port Huon (pic)
MV Beavercove and MV John Hunter.
These ships are mentioned in Norm's book 'My Ships, The
Good Years'.
Norman's life after the
sea
were spent, lorry dtiving, working
for the Austalian Post Office and TAA before he went
farming with his son Steve from where he moved to
Tasmania.
Norman's Funeral was held on the 24th September 2015 at
the Carr Villa Crematorium, Launceston, Tasmania.
Our condolences go out to Norman's Family.
Ireland crossing on the teturn leg of her maiden voyage in
April 1893. This was a thrill for her pampered first class
passengers, who enjoyed caviar and champagne as history was
made. The less fortunate Third class, mostly immigrants
below decks, feared for their lives, as theywere subjected to
severe vibration and noise as the ship travelled at high speed.
However, Cunard were not always happy with 'Campania';
they almost sued Fairfield after she was {ound to be suffering
from vibration problems. During her first trips across the
Atlantic, not only did the hull vibration prove a ptoblem , so
did sea spray, which, in heary seas, soaked passengers. This
led to modifications being made to 'Lucania'which was under
construction and subsequently made to 'Campania', she was
rerumed to the builders yard and had her aft section
strengthened to reduce vibration.
The company were also delighted to have 'Campania'
represent them at the Spithead Fieet Review of 1897, held to
celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. She was also
fitted with the new Marconi wireless technology in 1901, and
four years later became the first ocean liner to have wireless
communications with coastal stations around the world.
Three years later she collided with and sank the bark
'Embleton' resulting in the death of 11of that ship's crew, on
top of that in 1905 she was swamped by a massive wave
which caused doors on her lower decks to burst open and five
passengers wefe swept to their death.
After her 250th Atlantic crossing Cunard decided she was
becoming a financial burden and had to be put out to pasture
and a deal was concluded to scrap her in1914. However, the
I would like to thank Norman's son Darren and Steve Corrie
for sharing this insight into Norman's life.
outbreak of war and the evolution of new weaponry, in
particular the aeroplane, led the government to seek a ship
that could be converted to allow this new weapon to be
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utilised at sea. She became HMS Campania after an eight
month refit, also the addition of a 168ft wooden flight deck
Cunarder to Carrier
The 12,950gt RMS Campania was completed in 1893 and
had a top speed of22 knots. She was, in everyrespect, an
enormous ship for her day. She represented an incredible
sight when launched on 8th September 1892 from the
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Govan
on the Clyde, having been built to Admiralty specifications.
There was an agreement between Cunard and the
Admiralty which meant monies given towards the cost of her
building gave the Admiralry a right to call her into sewice as
an armed Merchant Cruiser should there be a need.
'\il7W1,
she was transformed
And, following the outbreak of
was later extended to 200ft.
Bad luck continued, when she missed the signal to sail with
the fleet for the Battle of Jutland, engine trouble and ongoing
repairs led her to miss further sea baftles, and by 1918 the
Admiralry decided she was showing her age and ordered her
to the River Forth and her crew of 400 was reduced to a
skeleton crew and anchored a mile of Burntisland.'!7ith oniy
one
ofher
13 boilers
in operation
she was
not prepared to
deal with the force ten gale that blew up.
'W'ith
luxurious, and fast liner, not into an armed
cruiser, but into a primitive aircraft carriet, by 1915 ready for
only one anchor down she broke loose and collided
with HMS Royal Oak which led to her boiler exploding, her
crew soon realised that her fate was sealed but in the storm
Naval service.
she also
from
a sleek
'Campania'was the pride of Cunard's fleet when launched,
being of a groundireaking design and measuring 627ftby
65ft 3in. She was the first of the company's steamships to be
fitted with rwin propellers. this allowed her for a short time
.
Historywas made in1915, when she successfully launched a
plane from her flight deck while at full speed, the flight deck
collided with HMS Glorious and HMS Revenge.
in 27m of water.
She finally sank 5hrs later
In 2001 under the Protection of\Trecks Act 1973
designated a site of historic importance.
she was
''LUSITANIA''
'Remembering one hundred years on'
Lusitania, along with her sister ship 'Mauretania'were Cunards answer to the German ocean liner 'Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse'
which had entered service in 1897 and with her speed and luxury had shocked Cunard into action.
Lusitania, was built by John Brown on the Ciyde and was launched on 7th June 1906, after fitting out was ready for sea rrials on
27th July 1907. Being found to have too rnuch vibtation in her stern was sent back to John Brown's for stiffening, she finally left
Liverpool on 7th September 1907 for her maiden voyage.
She could carry approximately 557 first class passengers, 460 second class and 1 186 third class. She undertook 2OZvoyages to the
LISA taking the Blue Riband on her second voyage, swapping tl-ris with Mautetania until 1909 with Mauretania always faster
retained it.
Although Cunard had an agreernent with the governmel)t of the day that Lusitania could be requisitioned by the Royal Nar.ry in
the event of war, although she was called up she was never used in the capacity of an armed 'Merchant Cruiser', she remained on the
New York sewice with her #4 boiler shut down to consewe fr-rel which reduced her speed fto:r:' 25 to 21 knots.
In February 1915 the waters around the Britain were deciared a war
zone by the Germans.
In March after returning from the USA her Captain James Dow left the ship,
stressed with the efforts of sailing in the war zone,
and was replaced by Captain'\7i11iam Thomas Turner. He took her on her 201st voyage and arrived in New York on 24th April
1915. Preparation began for her return trip to England, but, the German Embassy ran an adverr in fifty (50) American newspapers
warning against sailing on this
voyage. lt
read;.
Notice
Traveliers intending to ernbark on the Atlantic voyage are rerninded that a state of war exists
between Gerrnany and her Allies and Great Britain and her Allies; that the zone of war inchrdes
the waters adjacent to the British Isles; that, in accordance with formal notice given by tire
h-nperial German Government, vessels flying the flag of Great Britain, or any of her Allies are
liable to destruction in those waters and that travellers sailing in the war zone on the ships of
Great Rritain or her Allies do so at their own risk.
Imperiai German Ernbassy
\Tashington D.C.
April 22nd
1915
Lusitania departed New York on 1st May 1915 with 1,265 passengers and 694 crew aboard. She
entered the war zone early on ?th May and by lunchtime was sailing 11 rniles {rom the 'Old Head of
Kinsale'when she passed the German U-Boat Li20 coumanded by Otto Schwieger. A single torpedo
was lired at 1410hrs hitting Lusitania on her starboard side just forward of the wheelhouse,
within
seconds a second explosion erupted next to where the torpedo had struck causing fatal damage to the ship, within eighteen (18)
minutes the bow had hit the seabed, 300ft below the surface. (she was 750ft in length)
The British clairned an unamred passenger liner had been sunk, while the Germans claimed she was carrying munitions and
contraband of war and was registered as a Merchant Cruiser, and was therefore a warship.
The rnanifest listed "furs" sent by Dupont de Nemours, a major manufacturer of explosives, as well as "butter and lard"
despatched to the Royal Nary's'Weapon Testing Establishment
in Essex, and 46 tons of Aluminium powder, again a n-rajor
component of weapons manufacture.
\7e may soon {ind out under the t00years rule rnore details o{ the sinking of Lusitania and the catgo she was carrying, but
nonetheless, details of what she carried on her final voyage remains an enigma in this anniversary year of her loss as we remember
the I 198 passengers and crew who tragically lost their lives.
Thanks to our rnember David Bell-Lennan for supplying me with the photo of the Lusitania medal which he has
in hi.s collection of Maritime Memorabilia.
An artistb impression of Lusitania at New York, dressed
in {lags, and surrounded by a fleet of tugs,
The computer in my high school classroom recendy starring acting
up. After watching me struggle with
it , one of my students took over
. "yoLrr hard drive crashed" he said.
I called the computer sewices office and explained, "My computer is
down. The hard drive crashed".
\(/e can't just send people down or-r your say-so, "how do you know
thats the probleml" "A student told me" I answered.
"\7e'1i send someone over right away''
rules mean some of the new twin-island design vessels
Container Ships.
lf you were in the US port of Newark on 26th April
1956 it is quite possible you may have seen the birth of
containerisation as the first ship,"ldeal X" sailed for
It
is almost six decades since "ldeal X" left Newark on
her maiden voyage, and during that time the container
Houston.
Ideal X, was a converted'World War
fitted with
can now load 11 tiers of containers on deck behind the
bridge.
a
II T2 tanker
reinforced deck to carry hearry loads on
deck. On her maiden voyage she carried 58 30ft long
metal containers and 15,000 tonnes of petroleum.
Since the
mid 1950's and the
voyage of "Ideal X"
there have been seven generations ofcontainer ship,
usually with a gap of six to seven years between
developments.
Container ship capacity is measured in trventy-foot,
equivalent units, or
TEU. Until recently, shipping lines
used two different methods in calculating vessel
ship has revolutionised the shipping industry, ship
building and indeed'lUorld Trade. lt is almost
inconceivable that while stood on the quay that day in
1956, Malcolm Mclean, the man behind the container
revolution, could have imagined the size and scale of
today's container ships. And one can only imagine what
the next 56 years will bring.
The seven generations of container ships are;
19s6--1970
2nd Generation
500--800 TEU
3rd Generation
Fully Cellular
Panamax class
1.000--2.900 TEU
capacity.
The first was notional capacity, which was the
method of calculating capacity
1980--1988
1970--1980
1st Generation
as used by Maersk
1988-2000
until
2011. This calculates capacity based on each TEU
weighing a maximum of 14 tonnes. The quoted capacity
was the number of boxes the vessel can safely load
without jeopardizing stability while remaining within
specific draft rules.
The second was nominal capacity, which was the
total capacity of a vessel in TEU slots. This is the
maximum number of available container slots on a
ship, irrespective of weight, this method will always give
a greater capacity.
However, due to operational or company constraints,
not all of the stated TEU slots can be ftrlly used. The
general rule of thumb is that loaded containers
represent about 807o of a ships nominal capacity.
One reason that 2015 has already seen no fewer than
three ships r,ying for the title of the world's biggest
container ship ls the changes made to container stowage
rules. Until recently, all container stowage and lashing
systeurs have been designed with the stormy, hurricaneprone North Atlantic in mind. Howevet, by basing
container stowage on this region, the potential for other
less stormy regions was not fully utilised.
After in-depth studies DNV-GL has issued special
class notations called Route Specific Container Stowage
(RSCS) which can be applied to any container vessel
built after May 2013, RSCS allows for a more flexible
approach to container stowage by increasing stack
weights, whlch allow for loaded containers to be stacked
3.000--4.000 TEU
2,000--200s
4th Generation
5th Generation
Post-Panamax class
Super Post-Panamax
4,500--6,600 TEU
2006--2072
6th Generation
7,000--9,000 TEU
20L2--2015
7th Generation
New-Panamax class
Post New-Panamax
9,000*15,500
16.000--L9.200 TEU
The Future; 8th Generation, 24,000+ TEU
With the 7th generation these new 18,000-plus giants are
almost identical dimensions with an overall length of 395400m, breadth 58-59.5m, and a draft of 16m. The
difference in capacity is due to different bay configurations
and the number oftiers on deck.
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Carisbrooke Shipping Ltd, has announced it is using
a patented fluropolymer hull coating on one of its ships
to improve hull efficiency and reduce fuel constrmption.
The coating is Intersleek 1100SR from International
Paint Ltd, and it has been applied to Carisbrooke
Shipping's 9,530et/2010 built Jasmine C, to reduce hull
roughness and subsequently, fuel consumption. This
may allow ships to be included in carbon credit
initiatives such as The Gold Standard which allows fuel
savings and CO2 reductions to be translated into
tradable carbon credits with a cash value. In March of
this year Carisbrooke applied Intemational Paint
products on all of its remaining 6000 D!7T K Class
cargo ships to improve efficiency.
higher.
Nominal capacity is increased by allowing an extra
tier on deck where line of sight is not affected. These
I was taught to respect my elders,
But it's getting harder to find them.
Commemorative Paving Stone Unveiled
for First Civilian to receive VC during WW1
A memoriai paving stone
was placed
in Islington Green,
Upper Street, London, on Jr-rly 4th 2015 in Honour of
Master Frederick Daniel Parslow. At 59 years of age he
was the eldest person
lo receive the Victoria Cross in
ww1.
As a member of the Mercantite Marine and Captain
of the unarmed cargo ship'SS Anglo Californian'came
under attack from a German submarine just off the
Irish coast on Jtily 4th 1915.
Carrying 927 horses for the Western Front from
Quebec to Avonmouth the ship was chased for three
and a haif hours by the U-39 submarine before three
Royal Nary ships appeared and rescued them.
Un{ortunately by this time Captain Parslow and
another 30 of his crew and a number of horses had
been killed and his son who was the 2nd Officer on the
protect Merchant ships and ensure vital
sr-rpplies
reached Britain.
The ceremony was/is part of a Centenary
Commemoration scheme by the Department for
Communities and Local Government (DCLG) to
honour the recipients of the 628V C's given out during
the First World \War.
A paving stone will be unveiled at or near each
individual's birthplace 100 years to the day after the
action for which they won their medal, continuing ali
the way to 2018.
The SS Anglo Californian was attacked by U-39 Capt
'S?alter Forstman on
4th July 1915 whilst on route frort
Quebec to Avonmouth. Ship q,pe 'Steamer' grt7,333,
She was sold in 1916 to the Cunard Steam-Ship
Co..Ltd Liverpool, renamed Vandalia' and torpedoed
and sunk by U-96 on June 9th 1918.
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Be{ore Parslow the Royal Nar.r7 had been reluctant to
award the Victoria Cross, the highest award for British
and Commonwealth forces, to members of the
Captain Frederick Daniel Parslow was killed when
the bridge was hit by heaq' shell flre from the
submarine, his son also named Frederick Parsiow who
Mercantile Marine because it meant elevating civilians
to the level of the Royal Nar,ry.
'Wanting
also to Honour Achibald Smith, another
was the 2nd mate took command. He was also granted
Mercantile Marine Captain who died in action in
Reserve and awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.
March i917, the Royal Nary decided to posthumously
commission them both as Lieutenants in the Royal
Navai Reserve alLowing them to be given the Victoria
Cross in May 1919.
The Royal \Tarrant of 1920 changed this and meant
that Mercantile Marine members could be eiigible for
the meda| but the V C was never again awarded to
someone from the Marine or its successor, the
Merchant Nar,y.
From the outset of the First lforid \Var, the waters
surrounding the British Isles were treacherous for ships,
particularly unarmed Merchant and Neutral vessels, and
were declared as'War Zone by Germany in February
1915. German U-boats achieved great success until
May 1917 when the convoy system was inmoduced by
the Royal Nar.y, whereby naval vessels were sent to
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Sisters meet up'down under'
Australia is clearly a growing market for many cruise
operators, and Royal Caribbean Intemational is the
latest of rhe large groups to announce an increases in
Z0l5/16 summer season. The 1,800
iower-berth 'iegend of the Seas' will be the {irst of the
company's ships to be based in Brisbane, while her
larger fleetmate 'Radiance of the Seas', with 2,200 lowerberths wili use Sydney as her home port.
Howevet, the 137,000gt sisters'Explorer of the Seas'
and Voyager of the Seas' will meet in Sydney Harbour
for the first time on 28th November. 'Explorer of the
capacity for the
Seas' has recently had her lower-berth capacity increased
with the addition of 86 new cabins to bring her capacity
in line with her sister at 3,300 lower-berths.
She sailed under her own power
''CANNON BALLS''
in 1997 to celebrate her
200th birthday and again in 70lZ to commemorate the 200th
Did you know this?
anniversary of het victory over HMS Gurriere.
It was necessary to keep a good supply of cannon balls near
the cannon orr old war ships.
USS Constitution, the
lforld's oldest commissioned
warship afloat, was troved into Dry Dock 1 in Boston on
But how to prevent theur from rolling about the deck was
a
major problem.
19th May to begin a major restoration project. \7ork is
expected to take around three years to complete and
The best storage method devised was to stack thern as a
will
include re-coppering her hull, replacing worn rigging and oid
square based p1"ramid, with one ball on top, resting on four,
planks, general repairs to her bow and stern plus the
resting on nine, which rested on sixteen. Thus, a supply of
Captains cabin.
30 cannon balls could be stacked in a srnaii area right next to
the cannon. There was only one problem*how to prevent
the bottorn iayer from sliding,/rolling from under the others..
They are my Country's line,
By strong brains labouring on the thought unwon,
They mark our passage as a race of rnen,
The solution was a metal plate with 16 round dimples,
Earth will not see such ships as these again,
called, fot reasons unknown, a Monkey. But if this plate
were made of iron, the iron balls quickly msted to
it.
John Masefield
The
solution to the rusting problem was to make the plates out of
brass-hence, Brass Monkeys.
IARGEST SHIP UNDER THE RED ENSIGN
Few landlubbers realize that brass conffacts more, and
more rapidly than irot-r when chilled.
Consequently, when the temperanrre droppecl too far, the
brass indentations would shrink so much that the iron
cannon balls would come off the uronkey.
Thus, it was quite literally, cold enough to freeze the balls
ofT a brass monkey. And all this time, you thought that it u'as
a
vulgar expression, didn't you?
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constltutlon
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lronsides left
high and dry
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CMA CGM'S newest vessel rnade her UK debut on 30th
May 2015, arriving in perfect weather at the po{t of
Southampton, 'CMA CCM Kerguelen'was built in South
Korea by Samsung Hearry Indusmies and is the first in a series
of six vessels, three of which are being built by Sarnsung and
three in China. STith a capacity of 17,772 TEU (menry foot
equivalenr units), she is the world's third largest conrainer
vessel after
MSC Oscar and CSL Cllobe.
Slre lras an overall length of 398m,and her breadth
of 54m
equates to 21 rows of containers wide. She is the largest
'Old Ironsides' was the name given to the l8th century
frigate 'USS Constitution' dr.rring the war of 1812 after its
battle with 'HMS Gueniere' in which the British cannon
bails were bouncing off her hr-ril, which were 2linches thick.
She aiso de{eated four other British ships during this period,
those being; Java, Pictou, Cyane and l-evant as well as
capnrring nunerous British Merchant vessels.
built at the North End of Boston, Massacl"rusetts at
Edrnund Hartts shipyard and launched in 1797. She
eventually retired fiom active senice in 1881. Althougl'r in
She was
1830 she was going to
Lre
decornn-rissioned and dismantled,
but due to her popularity, Oliver Wendell Hohnes wrote a
poem in suppoft of the public adoration for her that 'Old
Ironsides'was spared.
In 1907 she was designated a museum ship, but in 1934 she
completed a three year 90 port tour of the Nation.
container vessel to call at the port of Southampton and , with
her UK flag is currently the largest vessel to f1y the Red
Ensign.
After a successful call at DP \7orld container Terrninal, with
all cargo operations being completed in under 24 hours the
vessel sailed for her next European port of call, Hamburg.
CMA CGM Kergrrelen
is deployed
on the FAL1 sewice
which is part of the Oceans Three Alliance with UASC and
China Shipping. FAL1 sees ships calling at Ningbo,
Shanghai, Xiamen, Hong Kong, Chiwan, Yantian, Port Klang
Algeciras, Southampton, Flamburg, Rotterdam, Zeebrugge,
Le [{awe, Malta and Khor Al Fakkan.
All six vessels in the class are due to be deiivered in 2015
with Kerguelen to be followed CMA CGM Bougainville,
CMA CGM George Forster, and the first Chinese-built vessel
CMA CGM Vasco De Canrir.
"Denizens
ofthe Deep"
On Beholf af the
ln our last newsletter we ran a story on our member
Arthur Clark and his cawing "Denizens of the Deep"
Since then our member'Bill King'has sent me a
photograph showing Arthur and part of his carvings,
which i am sure yotr will all appreciate.
A magnificent piece of work.
Vindicatrix
Association NSW/ACT,
I
would
like fo wish you aII CI
CHRISTMAS and o
YEAR ,2015,
,,GOOD
HEALTH,
MERRY
HAPPY NEW
CALM SEAS and
FAIR WINDS''.
During the wedding rehearsal , the groom approached the
minister with an unusual offer. "Look, I'il give you $100 if
you'll change the wedding vowels. When yotr get to me and
the part where I'rn to promise to 'love, honour and obey' and
'forsaking all others, be faithful to her forever', I'd appreciate
it if you'd just
leave that part or1t".
He passed the Minister the cash and walked away satisfied.
The wedding day arrives, and the Bride and Groorn having
moved to that part of the ceremony where the vows are exchanged.
'lfhen
it
comes time for the grooms vows, the minister looks
the young man in the eye and say's,
"1Wi11
you prornise to
prosftate yourself before her, obey her every comnand and
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wish, sewe her breakfast in bed every rnorning of your life
ri'
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and swear eternally before God and your lovely wife that you
will not
even look at another wonr.an, as long as you both
shall livel"
The groom gulped and looked around. Everyone was
staring at hiln and said in a tiny voice "yes,"
C)ne of the famous Mersey Ferries has appeared
in
dazzle
camouflage as part of events in Liverpool to mark the
centenary of the start of \forld \7ar 1. Seven Painters spent
ten (10) days working on the l959-builpSnowdrop to recreate
colours applied to Merchant Vessels to confuse Gennan
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Boat Captains between 1914-1918.
The paint design is the work of distinguished artist Sir Peter
Biake, whose connection with Liverpool smetches back to
1967, when he prodr.rced the iconic cover for the Beatles
'Sergeant Pepper Album'.
Snowdrop, part of a three-strong present day Mersey Ferries
Fleet, is expected to cross the tivet connecting Liverpool with
Seacombe and Birkenhead lToodside 10,800 times whilst
wearing the dazzle paint for the next welve months. The
Mersey project is part of a UK Nationwide programme by
Arts Organisation '14-18 Now'.
Riddle answer;
'Lighthouse'
Our next meetirrg is scheduled for December 19th 2015,
the rneeting on 24th October was null and void thtough lack
of attendance. If this meeting needs to be brought forward,
if arryone has anlthing that needs to be discussed please let
rne know so we can organize a date. [email protected]
groom leaned toward the minster and hissed, "I
thought we had a deal."
The minister put the $100 into his hand and whispered
Tl-re
back, "She made me a much befter offer."
So as we come to the end of our last news letter for this
ifyou have any stories or ardcles you
to see in print next year, any changes or more of
year, Don't forget,
would
lii<e
the same please let me know.
I would like to thank our comrnittee this year,
unforrunately our nurnbers have dropped considerably at the
rneetings but this is understandable as we that are left grow
old and are not so good at travelling too far.
If anyone can suggest
a
location for a get together, we are
only too happy to listen.
Please do
not l-resitate to contact nre on,
email; [email protected]
Tel; 0243921396 Mob 0409174854
19 Odeme Ave, Gorokan, nsw 2263
Regards to you all,
Richard Brown, Pres,/Sec
- Liam, "Pour some water over
paddy; "Conrputer cornpletely screwed up now'
paddy, "\Tindows frozen"
thern"
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