Shipmates ahoy!

[Speedwell lass]

The Matthew and three other tall ships were docked at Gloucester for the May Bank holiday.
Here are my photos of them.

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Eileen.

[Bligh]

Welcome to the Anchorage Mrs Bligh.:hatsoff:

I am sure that you will enjoy re acquainting yourself with some old friends, and making some new shipmates along the way.

Your loving husband Jas Bligh.

[Union Jack]

A warm welcome from sunny Northumberland Eileen.

May the wind be ever behind your sails, your horizons remain clear and fair sailing on all your journeys.

[Naharaht]

Welcome to the Anchorage, Eileen, from here in Norfolk. Those are nice photographs. :thumbsup:

[Diamondback]

Welcome to the party, ma'am. :)

[David Manley]

Welcome aboard :)

As usual the news of the ships heading back down the Sharpness canal wasn't publicised so they went past my field yesterday unseen. Every year the same, every year the organisers say they'l advise on social media and every year it doesn't happen

[Comte de Brueys]

Bonjour, Eileen.

Welcome on board. :salute:



Nice pictures. :thumbsup:


Unfortunately nor first rates at this dock. :wink:

[Speedwell lass]

Thanks for the welcome Shipmates.
Here are a few more photos, sent by a friendly Admiral. I think you will recognise some of the folks in costume!

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Eileen

[Comte de Brueys]

Nice redcoat! :clap:

[Bligh]

Thanks Sven.
All Mrs Bligh's handiwork.:clap:
Rob.

[Capn Duff]

Great pics and welcome to you Eileen, from a sunny Bristol

[WarBoar]

Ma'am :hatsoff:

Welcome to the Anchorage! :happy:

[TexaS]

Indeed welcome to the anchorage!:hatsoff:

[HMS Goliath]

Very nice! Are you guys living historians (reenactors?)

[Bligh]

Hi Robert.
Firstly welcome aboard.
Eileen and I both re-enact in the following eras, Medieval Wars of the Roses. although not for a few seasons now, 17th century English Civil War, our main period, and 18th Century from Jacobite to American Revolution.
Commonly known in our Enactment circles as "The time tarts."
Rob.

[HMS Goliath]

My family do American Civil War. Actually yours truly was just appointed Commander of the Confederate Army for our American Civil War Society. I understand that you in Britain have an ACWS too.
We have HMS Surprise near us in San Diego and they have a living history group attached to her. I'd love to play with them but since on occasion I portray Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart I have a full bushy beard and as I'm sure you know, members of the Royal Navy were clean shaven. There are some Napoleonic reenactors too. I have some good friends who recently formed Leigion Irelandes, Irishmen who fought for Napoleon. Since my family is 3/4 Scottish (the remaining third being a smattering of English, Welsh and Irish there's no way I could play a bloody Frog!

[Bligh]

Good morning Robert.

I must admit that my enactment has been very mixed up. In Medieval we are all Catholic troops of course, members of the Household of King Richard the Third. Then as Parliamentarians in the ECW, we are Protestants. Back to Lace Wars. Manchester Regiment, the only English unit to join the army of Prince Charles Edward Stuart puts us in battle alongside the French Regiment Dillon's Irish Pickets, Lowland and Highland Scots. French and Indian wars and we turn into a Virginia Militia unit or French Militia depending upon who needs our services most. These changes can cause some very quick thinking and rapid changes in the answers we give to the public as may be imagined.
I sometimes feel a bit like a latter-day Vicar of Bray.

Rob.

[HMS Goliath]

Does get a little schizophrenic sometimes doesn't it?!

[TexaS]

I used to do WWII British Para, still have all the gear, and still do Regency dancing.