Hydrozoan
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The first Broomway thread led me, circuitously, to re-reading W G Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn and thence to Edward Fitzgerald, he of the Rubaiyat. I know he has already been mentioned here in the Christmas quiz of 2013 (I could find only the answers) and (by Kukri) as the owner of Scandal.
A little searching led me to what perhaps many of you know anyway, that he had Scandal built for him at Wivenhoe in 1863 - then as Shamrock, a 15 ton schooner skippered by a Tom Newson. He renamed her Scandal, that being ‘... the principal commodity of Woodbridge’ where he (later?) lived.
But I find he was also the friend of Joseph ‘Posh’ Fletcher, a Lowestoft fisherman with (or for) whom he built a herring lugger, the Meum and Teum (or ‘Mum and Tum’). There’s quite a lot more in various places on the web, but this account of the fishing side (with some old photographs) may be of interest if you have not seen it: Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" (gutenberg.org). I also discovered that he had in earlier life begun to write a compendium of nautical terminology, never I think published.
A little searching led me to what perhaps many of you know anyway, that he had Scandal built for him at Wivenhoe in 1863 - then as Shamrock, a 15 ton schooner skippered by a Tom Newson. He renamed her Scandal, that being ‘... the principal commodity of Woodbridge’ where he (later?) lived.
But I find he was also the friend of Joseph ‘Posh’ Fletcher, a Lowestoft fisherman with (or for) whom he built a herring lugger, the Meum and Teum (or ‘Mum and Tum’). There’s quite a lot more in various places on the web, but this account of the fishing side (with some old photographs) may be of interest if you have not seen it: Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" (gutenberg.org). I also discovered that he had in earlier life begun to write a compendium of nautical terminology, never I think published.
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