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Wood from famous British ships

Post by Niner » Sun Aug 28, 2016 4:46 pm

http://www.flayderman.com/#misc

Flayderman produced the guide to Antique American Firearms for a lot of years. He is dead now but his family antique store still is in business. One of the odd things they have had for a while are some wooden cups that were made from the bones of famous British ships. Seems that was a fad in the late 19th and 20th Century.
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Re: Wood from famous British ships

Post by DuncaninFrance » Mon Aug 29, 2016 3:09 am

One ship's name has an interesting history;-

Two ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Ganges after the river Ganges in India.
• HMS Ganges (1782) was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1782 and broken up in 1816.
• HMS Ganges (1821) was an 84-gun second rate launched in 1821 and finally broken up in 1930. She is notable for being the last sailing ship of the Navy to serve as a flagship.
• HMS Ganges (shore establishment) was a training establishment, originally aboard the second HMS Ganges. She was in service between 1865 and 1976. During this period a number of other ships were renamed HMS Ganges whilst serving as the establishment:
• HMS Minotaur was Ganges between 1906 and 1908, and again between 1913 and 1919. She was also Ganges II between 1908 and 1912, and again between 1920 and 1922.
• HMS Caroline was Ganges between 1908 and 1913.
• HMS Agincourt was Ganges II between 1906 and 1908.
• RNTE Shotley, a shore based training establishment set up in 1905 was Ganges II from 1913 to 1919, and Ganges from 1927 to 1976.
• Royal Naval Training Establishment Shotley, known in the Royal Navy as HMS Ganges, was a naval training establishment at Shotley, near Ipswich in Suffolk. Starting in 1905, it trained boys for naval service until it closed in 1976, following the raising of the school leaving age from 15 to 16.[1] It had a mixed reputation in the Royal Navy, both for its reputed harsh methods of training boys in order to turn out professionally able, self-reliant ratings and for the professionalism of its former trainees. It is particularly famous for its 143-foot (44 m) high mast which all boys under training were required to ascend, at least to the half-moon and for the mast manning ceremonies held whenever a dignitary visited the establishment.
• During the later 1980s and 1990s RNTE Shotley was used as a residential centre for civilian police officers to complete their basic training. Forces which used this centre included Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Thames Valley and South Wales.[2] Local police forces continued to use the site in 2007.

Many vessels named Ganges, after the Ganges river in India, have served the British East India Company (EIC) between the 17th and 19th centuries.
• Ganges (1676 ship), sloop of the Bengal Pilot Service
• Ganges (1703 ship), sloop of the Bengal Pilot Service
• Ganges (1778 ship), an East Indiaman that made six voyages for the EIC and that was sold for breaking up in 1795.[1]
• Ganges (1792 ship), not an East Indiaman, but did make two voyages under contract to the EIC, (one 1796 and the other in 1801), and one voyage transporting convicts to Australia in 1797.
• Ganges (1794 ship), brig launched at Bombay Dockyard in 1794 for the Bengal Pilot service and destroyed by fire in 1796
• Ganges (1797 ship), an East Indiaman that participated in the Battle of Pulo Aura and that was wrecked in 1807
• Ganges (1799 ship), of 468 tons (bm), built in Newcastle-on-Tyne and sent to India in 1802 for the local trade
• Ganges (1806 ship), of 40011⁄94 tons (bm), launched at Calcutta
• Ganges (1813 ship), a ship licensed to trade with India that the EIC chartered for two voyages between 1829 and 1832;[2] damaged in a hurricane, she put into Mauritius in May 1833 and was condemned as unseaworthy and broken up there one month later
• Ganges (1817 ship), of 430 tons (bm), launched at Greenock
• Ganges (HEIC Brig), an armed brig that also participated in the Battle of Pulo Aura

I spent 2 weeks at HMS Ganges in 1976 on Operation Inside Right when I served as an RO2T in the RNR.
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Re: Wood from famous British ships

Post by Niner » Mon Aug 29, 2016 9:53 am

There is a book by Tristan Jones called Heart of Oak. It includes what he says is his memory of the Navy School Ganges where he said he went just as WWII was getting underway. Part of the story was a giant main mast of which the students had to climb up to the very crown and back again. But... Jones was a Welshman... and as was somewhat touched on in the Sunday chat... was full of imagination and a great story teller of lies or lies mixed with fact. It's a great read. But.. Tristan didn't serve in the Royal Navy until after WWII. His going to Ganges school is probably totally imaginary too.
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Re: Wood from famous British ships

Post by DuncaninFrance » Mon Aug 29, 2016 12:46 pm

What you describe there is actually being the 'Button Boy'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkmADkG13XU

Not a job for me :loco:
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