Today HMS Joyful Molly, with Ms. Emma Collingwood at the helm, set sail to join the Battle of Ye Olde Auctionhouse. We were determined to free Old Cuddy’s diary and carry it to safety (the National Maritime Museum or some other place where the public would have had access).


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The traditional October auction over at Charles Miller Ltd. is just around the corner. There’s always a wondrous plenthora of Maritime and Scientific objects and works of art on offer, but this year, one very special object caught my eye:

A PRIVATE AUTOGRAPH JOURNAL KEPT BY ADMIRAL LORD COLLINGWOOD (1750-1810) WHILST COMMANDING THE BRITISH FLEET IN ( Read more... )

I’ve promised you a special treat in celebration of our favourite admiral’s birthday, and here it is! You can download the story “Last Service” (an excerpt from the book “The Radiant Boy - Four Ghost Stories in the Age of Sail” by Emma Collingwood) for free!

Old Cuddy, Horatio Nelson and the Victory in one tale, who could ask for more? Have fun!

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All good things come to those who wait…

Trafalgar Day 2012 will see the launch of the Collingwood Society!

It goes without saying that Molly is very joyful at the moment!

Huzzah for Old Cuddy!


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Virginia has sent additional pictures, and I've also added some information you asked for.

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Mr. Keating, we're on your tracks!

Molly originally posted this entry at http://joyful-molly.dreamwidth.org/369710.html. You can comment on LJ or DW, using OpenID.
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Dear Collingwoodites, here’s a puzzle for you to solve!

Bingham Cuthbert (!) Charles Schreiber gave the following watch to his granddaughter Virginia on her 18th birthday. The watch, so the family story goes, was presented to Old Cuddy by the British Government after the Battle of Trafalgar. Mr. Schreiber was estranged from his father at a ( Read more... )

I paid my respects on the Old Cuddy blog:

Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood: Wisdom will never go out of Fashion

"I petition for his pieces of advice to be printed on a 4x20ft banner and put up in the Houses of Parliament. I suggest neon pink vinyl, so that really nobody can miss it."


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On this Trafalgar Day, you can raise your glass to our dear Old Cuddy and the other heroes of the Battle of Trafalgar at his North Tyneside monument.


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… and what tea would be better suited to celebrate his birthday than one poured from the Trafalgar teapot? One with a lacing of rum…


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On Friday, April 15 at 7.30pm, Dr. Tony Barrow will hold a lecture on

“Collingwood’s Northumbrians”

in the Parish Centre of Berwick.

Dr. Barrow will speak on the men from Tyneside and Northumberland who had social and family connections with Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood and how the latter supported them (or otherwise) in their naval careers ( Read more... )