“I have Urgent Dispatches”
A brief History of H M Schooner Pickle (Dec 1800 to 27 July 1808) – a ‘clever, fast schooner, coppered’.
A brief History of H M Schooner Pickle (Dec 1800 to 27 July 1808) – a ‘clever, fast schooner, coppered’.
Pickle night tonight!!! An excuse to party! Never mind naughty old Guy Fawkes…
The best Pickle night party we ever had included firing 2 real naval cannons complete with gun carriages, from our back garden!
Our thin excuse was
He has in Royal Navy speak been tasked to conduct a presentation on HMS Pickle as part of a command leadership programme to be given to senior officers.
My connection with HMS Pickle goes back a long way and includes a lengthy commission for HMS Victory which resulted in some great pictures (several available as heritage prints from page
http://www.frickers.co.uk/prints.html
Following a recent order for a large copy of the picture HMS Pickle carrying the news of Trafalgar including a remarque I wrote the following to describe the remaque and reveal a little known but interesting piece of history.
http://frickers.co.uk/marine-art/urgent_dispatches.html
The picture in question is “I have urgent dispatches“.