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2016 Summer Outing: Paxton House, Northumberland

Saturday 21st May 2016, 11.30 hrs:  Paxton House, Northumberland, 5 miles west of Berwick-upon-Tweed: The time has come for our Summer outing.  Paxton House, an impressive country house and estate completed in 1763, is located some 5 miles west of

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The Boy’s Manual of Seamanship and Gunnery 1871

Thursday 21st April 2016: The Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade Watch House: 7.30pm Society Member Captain Sandy Kinghorn looks at a standard training manual by which many a boy sailor was trained in the last century and a half.  Although dated

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The 2016 Collingwood Lecture

8th March 2016: 7.30 pm:  The 2016 Collingwood Lecture: ‘The character and role of the Royal Navy in the 21st Century’:  Captain Andy Jordan RN, Commanding Officer HMS COLLINGWOOD: The Newcastle upon Tyne Royal Grammar School (Performing Arts Centre) Eskdale

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Menorca: then and now

Tuesday 16th February 2016: The Newcastle upon Tyne Trinity House: 19.30 Mr Bryce Lyons, President of the Asociación Menorca Britannia, lands on our shores to tell us about the wonderful Isle of Menorca and its connections, past and present, with

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Petty Officers in the Collingwood Era

Tuesday 12th January 2016 The Newcastle upon Tyne Trinity House 19.30 A companion presentation to his earlier talk on Warrant Officers, Capt Stephen Healy focuses this time on another group of seamen in the Georgian Navy, the Petty Officers.  

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More of the Quiz….

Questions and answers from the four main rounds of the Christmas Quiz, plus the additional anagrams round.  Click below.  (more to follow soon….) 2015 Quiz

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Christmas Quiz and Social

4th December 2015 19.00:  Newcastle upon Tyne Royal Grammar School Eskdale Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4DX  (Performing Arts Centre) A’ Collingwood Society Quiz and Social Evening’: Join us for our first end-of-year ‘pub-quiz’.  Themed lightly towards matters maritime/Trafalgar/Georgian

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Dead Ships and Prizes

Wednesday 18th November 2015, 19.30 hrs:  The Newcastle upon Tyne Trinity House Society Member and naval architect David Byrne returns to the stage to talk this time about the challenges of towing ‘dead ships’ after a sea battle, be they

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Trafalgar Day 21st October 2015

Trafalgar Day 21st October 2015 As usual and as to be expected, the Society is represented at the various Trafalgar Day events, both in the north-east and in London.  You are welcome, nay encouraged, to attend! Newcastle:  The Cathedral Church

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2015 Annual General Meeting and ‘Forebitters’ session

The 2015 Annual General Meeting of the Collingwood Society will take place at the Newcastle upon Tyne Trinity House at 19.30 hours on Tuesday 27th October 2015.  It will be followed by a ‘Forebitter’ Session – any member can have

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