Kent

Thursday 8th December 2022 at 20:00. Venue- The Dog and Bear Hotel, Lenham.

The Foundation is working to reconnect communities with estuaries. The estuaries are improving despite their characteristic brown colour in the south east of England, but the colour makes it difficult to perceive the important animals that live in them. The Foundation runs programmes to allow people to explore aspects of the Medway estuary, tackling litter, eliminating single- use items, sampling microplastics and giving talks.

This event is open to non-members

Thursday 10th November 2022 at 20:00. Venue- The Dog and Bear Hotel, Lenham.

Adam will take us on a journey through time as we discover the known and the lesser-known defences of the Swale channel from the 1500s to the 1950s.

This event is now open to non-members.

Pre-registration is required, to book please click the link below:

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Thursday 13th October 2022 at 20:00. Venue - The Dog and Bear Hotel, Lenham, Kent

Thursday 8th September 2022 meeting at Gillingham Pier at 14:00

An opportunity to visit the historic paddle steamer Medway Queen at Gillingham Pier. The Medway Queen was launched in 1924 and was involved in mine sweeping in the Second World War and was also a Dunkerque Little Ship. She has a fascinating history and volunteers work hard to preserve her.

The entrance fee is £5.00 which is payable on the day which is inclusive of tea and coffee and allows entrance for a year. A cream tea on the ship is available at an additional cost of £5.00 per person. 

The CA will be represented at The Gillingham Marina Open Day on Saturday 14th May from 10:00 to 16:00. The new owners of Gillingham Marina welcome visitors to this event, entry and car parking are free. There will be discounted and promotional offers in the Chandlery, a wide range of boats for sale and the Marina workshop team will be available to discuss boat repairs. A variety of water based activities will be on offer ( weather permitting) in addition to various supporting stands. Tea and coffee and hot food will be available.

This talk has been rescheduled from 10th February

This talk, by Nick Ball, head of the collections department at The Historic Dockyard Chatham outlines his research into the construction and function of the models together with the identities of those who built and owned many of the finest ship models ever made. 

HMS Bellerophon nicknamed ‘Billy Ruffian’ by her crew, was a 74-gun ship of the line launched at Frindsbury on the River Medway in October 1786, just three years before the start of the French revolution. She fought in all the major naval battles of the Napoleonic wars and crowned her well-deserved reputation when she prevented Napoleon’s escape to the United States after the Battle of Waterloo. Napoleon was detained on board for twenty-four days until his transfer in Torbay to HMS Northumberland for the voyage to St Helena.

This talk is a change from that originally advertised due to work commitments of the previous speaker.

Mandy Bruce from Magellan Yacht Surveys has kindly agreed to step in.

Margaret Flo McEwan is the Founder of the Maunsell Sea Forts Appreciation Group.