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Paintings of local ships and shipwrecks - Jottings Issue 2004/2
Gordon LePard suggested at the Dorset Coastal Forum that a database of paintings of local ships and particularly shipwrecks might be very useful so we have decided to give it our support. As it develops we may find we need to expand the categories of information but a first draft follows after the Charles White painting of the Royal Adelaide:
(See also Marie Reine)
Post Card Corner - Mulberry Harbours - Jottings Issue 2004/3
This postcard clearly shows eight Mulberry Harbour caissons in use at Bincleaves, this must date from after ‘D-Day’ but why did they not go to France? What was the date? What were they be used for? Where did six of them go? Was it to Holland for flood relief? Answers on a postcard please.
Trafalgar Day - 21st October 2004 Jottings Issue 2004/4
As the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar is now only 12 months away and the start of ‘SeaBritain and SeaDorset 2005’ is just 2½ months away it seemed appropriate to show this postcard (cost £3.25) recording scenes in Trafalgar Square at the centenary celebrations. Year long celebrations are planned for next year with Gordon LePard of the Dorset Coastal Forum acting as a focal point for information on events that will be sent out monthly.
Painting of the P&O Liner 'Salsette' - Jottings Issue 2004/4; Visit Supliment.
In an earlier Issue we suggested that a database of paintings of ships with a local interest would be worthwhile, since then Selwyn Williams discovered this fine painting of the P&O Liner ‘Salsette’, sunk in 1917 in Lyme Bay, for sale by auction at Sothebys. Who bought it is unknown but it would have made a fine addition to a local maritime museum if only a benefactor and a suitable location could have been found! DJC
Post Card Corner - HMS Victory - Jottings Issue 2004/5
A fine postcard of HMS Victory at sea which puts it before 12th January 1922 when it went into dry dock. It cost a modest £1.50. A mini exhibition of HMS Victory postcards, perhaps in the Museum or Library, might be appropriate in 2005 for the 200th Anniversary of Trafalgar. DJC
Postcard from; Jottings Issue 2004/6
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Weymouth Harbour 1818 - Jottings Issue 2004/7
An 1818 water colour by John William Upham of Weymouth Harbour painted from Barrack Lane just about on the site of Nothe Tavern, the excellent venue for the Lunar Society’s 2004 Christmas Meeting. Seen on the left are the Red Barracks, now Wellington Court, originally designed for cavalry by the architects James Johnson and John Sanders of the government's Barracks Department, Construction commenced in 1794 and was finished in the winter of 1796-7 but unfortunately destroyed by fire in the first half of 1798. They were rebuilt in 1801 in brick with slate roofs around a drill/parade ground, this time as infantry barracks to provide accommodation for 2 field officers, 6 captains, 9 subalterns and staff, 360 NCOs and privates and a 30 bed hospital. They were used by the armed forces for the next 150 years. The original of this painting is in the Town Museum collection.
‘Albion’ Balloon, 12th August 1842 over Weymouth
Copy of a lithograph by Day and Haghe showing the ‘Albion’ balloon, piloted by Charles Green and Captain Currie, drifting over the seafront at Weymouth, Dorset, courtesy of the Science Museum’s Science and Society Picture Library. Charles Green’s claim to fame included becoming the first successful English parachutist in 1838. English aeronaut John Hampton (b 1799) was a rival of Charles Green made over one hundred flights in his ‘Albion’ and ‘Erin-go-bragh’ balloons before retiring in 1852.
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