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Thursday 11th December 2025: 2.00 pm:  The Newcastle upon Tyne Trinity House. Sir Thomas Slade was the English shipwright best known for designing HMS VICTORY. From humble beginnings as a shipwright in the Naval Dockyards, he rose to become Surveyor…

Thursday 13th November 2025:   7.30pm at the Newcastle upon Tyne Trinity House A class of ship intended for long-range scouting, escort and patrol roles, frigates often ended up doing much more. With a long and distinguished history in many navies, a…

The following are the Trafalgar commemorative events at which the Society will be represented this year. Hope you can join some of them!    

Tuesday 7th October 2025: 7.30pm:  The Newcastle upon Tyne Trinity House. Sir Thomas Slade was the English shipwright best known for designing HMS VICTORY. From humble beginnings as a shipwright in the Naval Dockyards, he rose to become Surveyor of…

Thursday 10th July 2025:  7.30 pm at the Newcastle upon Tyne Trinity House Speaker:  Philip K. Allan The Peninsular War (1808 – 1814) was the most protracted campaign of the whole Napoleonic period, and played a decisive role in the…

Thursday 22nd May 2025:  7.30 pm:  The Newcastle upon Tyne Trinity House A now regular speaker from the Society’s ranks, George Cansino this time tackles the 1798 ‘Battle of the Nile’, one of the major naval conflicts prior to Trafalgar. …

Thursday 10th April 2025:  7.30pm:  The Newcastle upon Tyne Trinity House Society member Pauline Piddington gives her first talk to the Society, choosing as her subject a selection of Napoleon’s Admirals, several of which faced Collingwood during the epic sea…

in association with, and with grateful thanks to the Newcastle upon Tyne Royal Grammar School. COLLINGWOOD’S NEWCASTLE:  The Miller Theatre, Royal Grammar School: 7.30pm Thursday 6th March 2025. The Collingwood Society has enjoyed an association with, and the generous support…

Tuesday 18th February 2025:   2.00pm at The Newcastle upon Tyne Trinity House Professor George Bruce.  ’74’s were found in all the major navies of the Georgian Era.  The ubiquitous, long-lived and much-copied class of warship is examined in this talk, the first…