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Save the Date! NEW YORK CITY PICKLE NIGHT DINNER Friday, 8 November 2013, at the New York Yacht Club This year marks the 208th Anniversary of the Bartle of Trafalgar, and the 10th New York City Pickle Night Dinner will mark this history-changing event on 8 November 2013. Those who appreciate the historical significance of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson and the lore associated with his life are invited to attend this special event. The event is named for HMS Pickle, which participated in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and subsequen tly brought the news home to Great Britain of Nelson's victory and death in the battle. This event has been a perennial success, with guests from the United States, Canada, England, France, and Switzerland. This year's honorary chairman is The Honorable Danny Lopez, British Consul General-New York Major General Buster Howes OBE, British Defence Attache in the United States and former Commandant General Royal Marines is the principal speaker. Major General Howes was commissioned into the Royal Marines in 1982, served as a troop commander of 42 Commando, and after training as a Mountain Leader, joined 45 Commando. He served in the Gulf War while seconded to the US Marine Corps. He was named Commanding Officer of 42 Commando during the Iraq War in 2003, C hief Joint Coordination and Effects in Headquarters in Afghanistan in 2007 and Director of Naval Staff later that year. He became Commander of 3 Commando Brigade in April 2008 and Head of Overseas Operations in the Ministry of Defence in 2009. The initial speaker will be George Daughan, award-winning military history author. Daughan spent three years in the US Air Force during the Vietnam War, was an instructor at rhe Air Force Academy and director of the Major General Buster Howes OBE master's program in international affairs there. He has taught at the University of Co lorado, the University of New Hampshire, Wesleyan University, and Connecticut College. Daughan holds a PhD in American History and Government from Harvard Univers ity. His latest book is 1812-lhe Navy's War. Space is limited. To reserve a place, please contact Sally McElwrearh Callo at SallyMC79@verizon.net or by calling 212 972-8667 . T ickers are $275 per person. Dress is black tie or military equivalent. The American Friends of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, the event sponsor, is recognized as a tax-exempt organization. The Nelson Society, The 1805 C lub, and the National Maritime Historical Society also support this event.
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carried both cargo and passengers, in cluding five pregnant women who sai led with them from Pukapuka to the closest hospital-in Rarotonga. After departing from Rarotonga in mid-August, the ship is planning stops at the Kingdom of Tonga and Norfolk Island, and then on to the International Fleet Review in Sydney, Australia. The Tall Ship Festival in Sydney will be followed by a tall ship race from Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand; Auckland's Tall Ship Festival; a visit to Waipu, NZ, and Picton, NZ; to be followed by six more months of visiting more islands in the South Pacific, including Pitcairn, Samoa, Fiji and more. (Picton Castle, POB 1076, 174 Bluenose Drive, Lunenburg, N.S., Canada BOJ 2CO. www.picton-castle.com) ... The Penobscot Marine Museum was recently awarded grants from the Cascade Foundation and the Maine Community Foundation to assist in efforts to digitize its collection of more than 140,000 historic photographs and record oral histories with the aid of new technology. It has taken a dozen volun-
teers six years to put 60,000 of these images on the museum's webs ite. With professional-grade cameras, scanners, digital voice recorders, and other equipment, staff and volunteers will be able to accomp lish their work more efficien tly. PMM's photography collection is used online by historians, writers, ed ucators, students, genealogists and the public. This equipment helps th e museum to ensure that important historical and cultural information is not lost, and that as much of its collectio ns as possible can be shared with the 1online community. (The museum's photo!graphy database can be viewed online at www.PenobscorMarineMuseum.org. P!v1M, 5 Church Sr., Searsport, ME 04974; Ph. 207 548-2529) j,
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