December For our December meeting, Member Alan Pepper presented pictures recently scanned from his family collection. Starting with a visit to New York to see the Statue of Liberty and the World Trade Centre in 1980, from which views of the Hudson and East Rivers were seen and where the liners DORIC and OCEANIC were identified by our experienced audience. …
Isle of Wight – November
November Our speaker for 28 November was Dr Dominic Fontana, FRGS, FRA who gave a thoroughly researched and comprehensive presentation, ‘The Battle of The Solent-19 July 1545 & The Mary Rose’. Having spent some 30 years in the research of the Mary Rose and academia, he unravelled the threat from the French who were in The Solent and gave us …