THE WORLD SHIP REVIEW
The World Ship Trust, as part of its aim of advancing education through the preservation and display of historic ships and maritime artefacts, publishes the quarterly World Ship Review, which first appears as World Ship Trust News in the autumn of 1982.
World Ship Review carries news and views on the many aspects of historic ship preservation and maritime museum activities from around the world. There is an eagerly awaited section known as "Sea Pie" which is a miscellany of reports from all quarters. Indeed, that in No. 22, issued in December 2000, introduced topics from Australia, Bermuda, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Myanmar, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the United States. There were feature articles, too, on Archives, the Australian Register of Historic Ships, and the restoration of the barque Glenlee, built on the Clyde in 1896 and now welcoming visitors at Greenock, Scotland. As with every issue, there is a diary of forthcoming events and details of new books.
SUMMARIES
No. 41 (September 2005).
This edition carries the complete list of World Ship Trust Maritime Heritage
Awards made since their inception in 1980 and concluding with that to HMS Victory of March 2005. Also
listed are the World Ship Trust Special Awards, the special Centenary Award and
Awards for Individual Achievement.
Denis
Stonham, Editor of Windjammer,
the journal of Mariners’ International writes on Diego,
built at Sunderland in 1868 as the Charlotte
and which after a busy career, made her final voyage in June 1935, the last
square-rigger under the Red Ensign.
The 1805 Club has produced an article on the Trafalgar Captains and their
memorials to be found up and down the land.
Finally, Sea Pie in this edition concerned vessels and
artefacts in Germany, Great Britain, Malta GC, The Netherlands and the USA.
No 40 (June 2005). This edition carried a report of the presentations in HMS Victory. HRH The Prince Philip presented the Trust’s Maritime Heritage Award to HMS Victory in recognition of the excellence of her restoration. The presentation was made to Vice-Admiral Sir James Burnell-Nugent, who flies his flag in the ship as Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command. Individual Awards were made to Dr Alan McGowan, in recognition of his outstanding scholarship and research over many years and in particular of his volume HMS Victory her Construction, Career and Restoration. Mr Peter Goodwin was also presented with an Individual Award in recognition of his outstanding scholarship which has been dedicated towards improving awareness of life on board HMS Victory. He has succeeded in his aim by designing and implementing a detailed ship interpretation programme. Mr Gordon Lawrence was also presented with an Individual Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution over 35 years towards the preservation, restoration and maintenance of HMS Victory.
Articles carried in this edition include The Story of HMS Victory by her Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Commander Frank Nowosielski; Victory’s Last Surviving Sail and Captain Peter Elphick, Adviser to the World Ship Trust wrote a definitive article on HMS Implacable, formerly the French 74 Gun ship Duguay-Trouin. Denis Stonham, Editor Windjammer, the journal of Mariners’ International contributed an article entitled Steamship River Clyde – How Britain Failed to Save a Hero of Gallipoli. Finally, there was an article on the Naval or Maritime Connections with property owned by the National Trust.
Sea Pie, continued with reports from Australia, Bermuda, Canada, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Malaysia, New Zealand, The Philippines, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA.
No 39 (March 2005). This edition carried a form enabling readers to indicate the ten most endangered ships world-wide. This provides for vessel’s name, type, where she is to be found and further details. Readers were invited to send this form to The Editor. Visitors to the Web site are invited to request this form by e-mail to pridgway@globalnet.co.uk
Feature articles in this edition concern the progress with Cutty Sark and the presentation of the World Ship Trust’s Maritime Heritage Award to Pommern at Mariehamn in the Åland Islands. Rear Admiral John Lippiett, Chief Executive of the Mary Rose Trust, had earlier delivered a speech at the 2004 Frank Carr Lunch and the Review published the text of this address on the work of the Mary Rose Trust.
This edition also included feature articles on Isle of Farquhar and Garthpool and in Sea Pie there was news of historic ships and maritime museums and kindred activities from Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, New Zealand, Peru, Russia, Turkey and the USA.
No 38 (December 2004). This edition carried a tribute by the Chairman to Ed Zelinsky, World Ship Trust Trustee, who died on 23rd September.
It carried a feature article by Lt Cdr Dirk Steffen, World Ship Trust representative, Germany, on the career of the Admiral Graf Spee which also took account of salvage attempts and a current project to raise items from the ship for display in Montevideo.
Denis Stonham, Editor of Windjammer, the Mariners International Club, wrote a tribute to the durability of iron hulls, particularly the iron barque Langland. Michael Matantos, Trustee of the World Ship Trust, produced a further article on Goeben and her place in Greek history.
The medley article of news from all quarters, Sea Pie, carried reports from Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Camen Islands, Falkland Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Japan, New Zealand, Peru, Seychelles, Sweden, Tanzania and the United States.
No 37 (September 2004). This edition carried notification of the Frank Carr Luncheon to be held at the Royal Thames Yacht Club on 12th October, this is a major fund-raising event in the World Ship Trust’s calendar.
An obituary is carried for David Lyon Geaves, Adviser to the World Ship Trust, who died aged 66 on 2nd July this year. He became a Trustee in 1995, was the Trust’s Vice Chairman and, briefly, was appointed Chairman on the sudden death last year of Jacques Chauveau.
This edition carries feature articles on the awful course of events of October 1904 when the Russian fleet mistakenly attacked the Hull Trawler Fleet on the Dogger Bank whilst the Russians were en route to Japan. Another article concerns the preservation and operation of steam ships on Lake Lucerne.
The medley article of news from all quarters, Sea Pie, carries information from Australia, Brunei, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russia, South Georgia, Switzerland, the USA and UNESCO.
No 36 (June 2004). This edition carried a tribute to Major James Forsythe (1916 to 2004) who was a founder member with Frank Carr of the World Ship Trust in 1979. The edition also carried feature articles on SMS Goeben, Yavuz Sultan Selim, Yavuz and the Liberty Ships. The WSR Observer provided pictures of the Greek cruiser Averoff and the Monitor M33, Minerva along with the replica under construction in Greece of Argo. Sea Pie carried news and reports from around the world taken from correspondence in Australia, Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, New Zealand, Sweden and the USA.
No 35 (March 2004). Michael Matantos, Trustee of the World Ship Trust, produced a definitive article on the history and the present day condition of the Greek Navy’s armoured cruiser Georgios Averoff, built in Leghorn in 1907, the 1943-built Fletcher Class destroyer Velos and the three-masted auxiliary barquentine, built in 1929, Evgenios Evgenides. The same issue reported the passing of Major James Forsythe on 18th March at the age of 87. He was a founder member of the World Ship Trust with the late Frank Carr and was, latterly, a Vice-President.
Sea Pie carried reports from sixteen countries.
No 34 (December 2003)
. The 1951-built steam tug/tender Flying Buzzard by Graeme Ewens, was portrayed in the opening article with information on her past and plans for her future. Captain Peter Adams, Member of the World Ship Trust and Editor of the Journal of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners in London (based in HQS Wellington) wrote an article on Amy Howson owned by the Humber Keel and Sloop Preservation Society. Rosalie Davis Gibb, introduced the World Lighthouse Society. A permanent exhibition entitled ‘Enlightenment’ at the King’s Library in the British Museum was reported. This is the home of in the region of 5,000 objects drawn from every part of the Museum’s collection and not previously on display. The gallery focuses on the mid-18th to early 19th century Britain, the great age of discovery and learning into which the museum was born and touches on discoveries from the Americas, the Pacific, Asia and Africa with the competition which led Britain to search for and establish new trade routes across the oceans and continents. The collection includes much from the East India Company and also items connected with Captain James Cook.One page concerned a proposal to create a national collection of historic ship models at Chatham Historic Dockyard embracing artefacts from the National Maritime Museum, the Imperial War Museum and the Science Museum. Anthony Churchill’s photographs of the 35 foot steam yacht Kariat and of the German one man submarine Biber appeared in the WSR Observer section. Sea Pie continued to bring news from across the globe, part of which referred to the forthcoming Historic Naval Ships Association 7th Maritime Heritage Conference to be held in Norfolk, Virginia, USA from 27th to 30th October 2004.
No 33 (September 2003)
. Lt Cdr Dirk Steffen continued his excellent series of contributions with an article entitled ‘Silent Triumph – The US Submarine Campaign against Japanese Shipping 1941-1945’. There was a series of fine photographs too. Sea Pie continued with reports from twelve nations and The WSR Observer showed pictures of Stockvik currently under restoration at Stocka, Sweden, and of Paster Pype and Amandie, under restoration and conservation in Belgium.No 32 (June 2003)
. Lt Cdr Dirk Steffen, the World Ship Trust’s representative in Germany produced the leading article ‘The Guns of the Torgud Reis’, being the story of the battery situated in the Besic Tepe Mountain opposite the southern tip of the Gallipoli Peninsular in Turkey. The guns had originally been made for the Weissenburg, one of a class of four German armoured ships of the Brandenburg Class. The guns were put in position in 1936. The class of armoured ships was built between 1890 and 1894 and Weissenburg was sold to the Ottoman Empire in 1910 and re-named Torgud Reis. During the Gallipoli Campaign the warship provided gunfire support to the Turkish Army. She was laid up in 1918. After her guns were placed ashore she remained an accommodation vessel and was eventually stricken from the list of Turkish warships in 1915 and scrapped six years later.The World Ship Trust’s Maritime Heritage Award presentation to the three-masted iron barque James Craig (built 1874) part of the Sydney Heritage Fleet was reported in this issue. Similarly the presentation of the same Award to May Queen in Tasmania was reported.
There was a further supplement from UNESCO being an article on underwater archaeology by Admiral Jean-Noël Turcat of the French Maritime Academy. Sea Pie contained reports from fifteen countries. There was news too of the presentation of the World Ship Trust’s Maritime Heritage Award to the cruiser Aurora, built in 1900, and restored and currently lying in St Petersburg, Russia. A month earlier there had been separate celebrations for the presentation of the Maritime Heritage Awards to the Liberty Ships Jeremiah O’Brien in San Francisco and John W Brown in Baltimore. Liberty Ships remained in the news with a report of the grounding of Richard Montgomery in August 1944 by Dick Schouten, the World Ship Trust’s Adviser in The Netherlands. Mention was also made of the book Liberty – The Ships that Won the War, published by Chatham Publishing of London, price £25.00, 512 pages, ISBN 1 86176 158 9. The book is written by Captain Peter Elphick, Trustee of the World Ship Trust.
Sadly this edition was to record the sudden death of the Trust’s Chairman, Jacques Chauveau at the age of 77 whilst in St Petersburg on 29th June 2003 having performed his last public office with the presentation of the Trust’s Award to Aurora.
No 31 (March 2003)
. Thure Malmberg, the World Ship Trust’s representative in Finland wrote the leading article ‘Handmade Wooden Ships, a living Finnish tradition’ which mentioned the building of two fine vessels Kathrina and Alexandra, examples of traditional wooden vessels. Kathrina was built in 1949 and Alexandra is a replica of a previous ship, with the same name, built in 1887 and which sailed for 74 years. The author went on to write a short article on the Finnish Maritime Museum. The Sea Pie section contained reports from twelve countries. There was the UNESCO report taking up four pages and containing more on the project with particular reference to the first international days of maritime heritage of the Mediterranean Sea which took place in Villefranche-sur-Mer, France from 26th to 30th March 2003. Pier Paolo Guia wrote an article on Pietro Micca, a steam tug of 1895. This edition closed with an obituary of Mrs Ruth Carr, who died on 7th February 2003 at the age of 96. She was the wife of our founder, Frank G G Carr.No 30 (December 2002). The opening article was entitled ‘UK Maritime Heritage – Where are we going?’ by Commander John Paton, Secretary to the National Historic Ships Committee based at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. Here he set out a few personal thoughts on the subject and enlightened the reader into the way historic ships are managed, supported and protected in the United Kingdom. Lt. Cdr. Dirk Steffen, the World Ship Trust’s representative in Germany wrote an article on U-1, an early submarine with the German Navy although not its first. Sea Pie carried the usual mix of reports from across the world and the second report under the UNESCO Navigation du Savoir Project was published, like its predecessor, in English, French and Arabic. This article concerned the training session on underwater archaeology held the previous September at Villefranche-sur-Mer, France.
This issue announced the World Ship Trust Special Award to HQS Wellington in London, Maritime Heritage Awards to Pommern at Mariehamn in the Åland Islands, Finland, to Marité and to HMS Victory, built in 1765 and currently preserved in Portsmouth, England. Individual Awards were approved to Göte Sundberg who has been responsible for the retention and preservation of Pommern, to Robert Albert for his role in providing significant support to the James Craig in Sydney, to Gordon Lawrence, Shipwright involved in the preservation and restoration of HMS Victory and to Jacques Chauveau, Chairman of the World Ship Trust for his unstinting efforts over many years in the cause of world-wide maritime preservation and for overseeing the partnership between the World Ship Trust and UNESCO’s La Navigation du Savoir Programme. The same issue carried a report of the Chairman making World Ship Trust Personal Awards to Bernard and Michèle Cadoret for their work and dedication over many years to maritime heritage, particularly through the publications Chasse Marée and Maritime Life and Traditions.
No 29 (September 2002). The principal article in this edition was ‘The Battle of the Atlantic’ by Professor Dr Jürgen Rohwer, one of Germany’s leading naval historians. An article by Win Davies reported on the Historic Naval Ships Association 6th Maritime Heritage Conference held in Wilmington, North Carolina the previous October. Sea Pie carried material from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, People’s Republic of China, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Falkland Islands, France, Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Myanmar, The Netherlands, New Zealand and the USA.
In this issue appeared the first supplement concerning La Navigation du Savoir, the study of the former Galley Building Yards in the Mediterranean organised by UNESCO and with which the World Ship Trust is a partner. This article outlined the project and the six schemes operating in Algeria, France, Italy, Malta, Spain and Tunisia.
No. 28 (June 2002). This contained articles as follows: A Floating Memorial by Brian Horton which dealt with the preservation of Yarmouth Navigator (MFV1502) built in 1942/43 and currently in need of restoration. The Yarmouth Navigator Restoration Fund, based in Dartmouth, Devon, has been set up and an appeal made for former engineers familiar with this type of craft, the 97-foot Admiralty type motor fishing vessel. Channing M. Zucker, Executive Director of the Historic Naval Ships' Association, based in the USA, provided some thoughts on maritime heritage. Details were posted of recent World Ship Trust Awards - the presentation to Edmund Gardner at the Merseyside Maritime Museum and to the Museum's Preservation expert, John Kearon.
At its meeting in March, the World Ship Trust approved awards to Aurora, built in St. Petersburg in 1900. This cruiser fought at Tsushima in 1905 and it is said that a shot to signal the storming of the Winter Palace was fired from her in 1917. Another award was to the three-masted iron barque James Craig, built as Clan MacLeod in 1873 and, after a busy life, has been restored over the space of thirty years from 1972. She is now an important tourist asset as part of the Sydney Heritage Fleet. An Award was made also to May Queen, a fully restored trading ketch, built in Tasmania and understood to be the oldest Australian-built cargo vessel extant.
Individual Awards were made to Dr. Ernst Schmidt who was responsible for the restoration, preservation and operation of the 1900-built river steamer Kaiser Wilhelm now in Dresden; to Ray Parkin, Naval Historian and Author of Melbourne, Australia; to Bernard and Michèle Cadoret of France for their dedicated work over many years to maritime heritage, particularly through publications and journals. William Foster, Boatwright and founding Director of the May Queen Trust, who has played a leading rôle in the physical restoration and preservation work of this historic vessel, was also granted an Individual Award.
The selection of intelligence reports regarding historic ships, maritime museums and maritime artefacts carries material form Australia, British Antarctic Territory, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the United States of America.
No. 27 (March 2002). This issue carries an article on the 55-foot Royal Barge Nore which carried HM The Queen on the Thames during her Coronation programme of 1953. The vessel was commissioned by the Port of London Authority (PLA) from Camper & Nicholson of Gosport for use by the Royal Household, and the PLA owned and operated her for more than twenty years. She was de-commissioned in early 1970 and passed into various hands, and it was estimated in the late 1980s that the restoration would cost in the region of £100,000. Her new owner hopes to put the boat and some of its memorabilia on public display and he has appealed for experts who have worked on the Nore during her heyday on the Thames. There is now a website regarding news of her and this can be found on http.//www.royalbargenore.com.
This edition also carried book reviews and a report on the World Ship Trust Award Ceremony held in Germany for Cap San Diego in Hamburg and the Hanse Cogge of 1380 in Bremerhaven.
The Sea Pie section carried news from sixteen nations.
No. 26 (December 2001). This issue carries reports on the World Ship Trust's Maritime Heritage Award Presentations to the HMS Trincomalee Trust, to Captain David Smith, President of the HMS Trincomalee Trust, to the Hanse Cog of 1380 on display at the Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum in Bremerhaven and to Cap San Diego berthed in Hamburg.
There was a report of a speech by Lt. Cdr. Dirk Steffen at the 2001 Frank Carr Luncheon held in HQS Wellington on 11 October. Sea Pie, the section rounding up news on historic ship, maritime museum and related activities from around the world carried reports received from contacts in Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, Falkland Islands, Finland, France, Great Britain, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Malta GC, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine and the United States of America.
Other articles concern the Jersey Maritime Museum and Wyn Davies, a Project Manager in historic ships, gives his views on Maritime Heritage.
World Ship Review No. 25 (September 2001). Contained articles on the issue of a Survey Certificate to the three-masted barque James Craig owned by the Sydney Heritage Fleet; the Indian Maritime Foundation by Captain Rajan Vir, Adviser to the World Ship Trust and Kate Newland of Stavanger Maritime Museum ,and Linda McGowan, Curator of the Scottish Fisheries Museum wrote about the Scottish Zulus and ( LK62). Captain Peter Elphick wrote about the Gull Lightvessel (No. 38) which dates from 1860 and lies on the foreshore at Grays in Essex.
The international reports compiled in Sea Pie came from Australia, Bermuda, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Falkland Islands, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, New Zealand, Romania, Sweden and the United States of America.
World Ship Review No. 24 (June 2001). This issue provided details as to how nominations for World Ship Trust Awards should be submitted by members. There was a report from the Norfolk Wherry Trust and on the restoration of the tops'l schooner Kathleen & May . Sea Pie carried intelligence from Australia, Bahamas, Canada, France, Great Britain, India, Myanmar, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and the United States of America.
World Ship Review No. 23 (March 2001) contained articles on the restoration work in HMS Cavalier adn in RRS Discovery, the present state of rstored steam vessels in Sweden, and the usual broad selection of material under "Sea Pie".
In World Ship Review No. 21 (September 2000) there was an article by the figurehead historian Richard Hunter dealing with restoration work on the figureheads of Cutty Sark, Trincomalee and Glenlee. Another article concerned the rescue of the 1864 Essex smack Pioneer, and the historic shipyard at Mellemvaerftet, Norway.
World Ship Review No. 20 (July 2000) had a report on ship restoration and maritime museum activities in Malaysia by Captain Philip Rivers, Adviser to the World Ship Trust. Other articles concerned restoration of James Stevens No. 14, claimed to be the oldest motorised lifeboat in the world and currently being worked on at Walton in Essex. The restoration and preparation for her first passage in modern times of the 19th century barque James Craig was also reported from Sydney. To close, there were definitive pieces on the British Military Powerboat Trust at Marchwood, Southampton and the Birtannia Museum at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.
World Ship Review No. 19 (March 2000) carried an article on MS Yavari which is currently undergoing restoration on Lake Titicaca, Peru, where she was first reconstructed following delivery from Great Britain in a prefabricated condition and steamed in 1862. News was received of the activities of HMS Trincomalee at Hartlepool, of the tin dredge which it is hoped will be preserved in Malaysia, and the copy of the Dutch East India Company vessel Batavia of 1628. Also of the Harbour Defence Motor Launch ML1387 paid off by the Royal Navy in 1965 and now in the care of the Coastal Forces Heritage Trust.
World Ship Review No. 18 (November 1999) introduced the third edition of The International Register of Historic Ships which carries details of more than 2000 vessels preserved in 72 countries. This edition also carried news of Liberty Ship artefacts, the USS Constitution of 1854, ongoing restoration in Cutty Sark, hulks on the New Calabar River, Nigeria, the creation of the ideal maritime museum, and more on the Trincomalee.
World Ship Review No 17 (August 1999) featured the search for Captain Cook's Endeavour which was believed to lie on the bottom of Newport Harbour, Rhode Island.
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