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As part of the Newcastle Royal Grammar School's 2010 Open Day on 3rd July, which was described as "incorporating the Collingwood legacy", an art competition for the Junior School was sponsored by the Collingwood 2010 Festival. The prize-winners are seen here receiving their certificates and prizes from Captain Stephen Healy of the Festival Committee alongside reproductions of their work. |
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Best in Exhibition - Joshua talks 5S |
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Award for Interpretation - Tabitha Burnett 6KW |
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Award for Technical Skill - Joe Clarke 7D |
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Award for Creative Skill - Meghana Bhattacharya |
Unfortunately, Meghana was unable to be present on the Open Day and received her certificate and prize afterwards. |
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Two young brothers from Newcastle go to sea In 1761, two brothers from Newcastle were sent to sea on board a 28-gun frigate called HMS Shannon. The two boys, named Cuthbert and Wilfred, were aged just 13 and 11 at the time they left their home town for a life on the ocean wave. They joined as midshipmen and over the coming years would be trained as future officers and gentlemen. The younger of the two would fall sick and die as a young man, the older would survive to become the subject of this website – Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood. Today, it is not possible to go to sea to work at so young an age, but there is an organisation that teaches young people about the Royal Navy and Merchant Navy, while at the same time helping them to have fun and to develop essential life skills. Vice-Admiral Collingwood would have very much approved of the organisation we know as the Sea Cadets. For more information, see http://seacadets.ms-sc.org/Join-the-Cadets/Cadets/Sea-Cadets or for information on their activities in the north of England and Borders region, see http://northernarea.ms-sc.org
Cadets form a guard of honour at Newcastle Civic Centre. |
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Famous names down the generations at RGS
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Pictured here are Royal Grammar School Newcastle Junior School Year 4 students Molly Woodburn, Lauren Robson and Cuthbert Craig standing beside Vice-Admiral Collingwood’s portrait in the school’s Main Hall.
Cuthbert is named after his great-great-uncle, Cuthbert Ridley, who died in action at sea off Halifax, Nova Scotia, during the First World War, and was himself named after Vice-Admiral Collingwood. |
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In the time of Nelson and Collingwood, England's wooden warships were the best in the world, but it took the timber from several thousand trees to build one of the larger ones. There are stories of Admiral Collingwood walking about with handfuls of acorns and dropping them into the earth along the banks of the river Wansbeck near his home in Morpeth, Northumberland. This was no strange habit, but Collingwood's understanding that, to build enough new ships in the future and so maintain England's position as the top international sea-power, many hundreds of thousands of good English oak trees would be needed. So he took every opportunity to plant the seeds that would, in time, grow into these huge trees. He was not to know, of course, that within less than a century, warships would be made of iron and steel. |
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