December 2018, Issue 42

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GREAT LAKES PIRATES

December 2018

Timber Gray Wolf

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Elise W’nstrom Editor

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In the 1600’s, the British rated their Royal Navy ships according to their size and strength. ‘First Rate’ was the rating given for the largest and most heavilist armed ships.

A ship with a 100 or more cannons was a First Rate lineof-battle ship. Second Rate carried 90 to 98 cannons; Third Rate, 64 to 89 cannons: Forth Rate, 50 to 60 cannons. Frigates carrying 20 to 48 cannons were Fifth and Sixth Rate.

The designation was use for around 250 years, until steam-powered ships took way to the sea. Today, the phrase is still used to descride something wich is of the highest standard.

Hand-Crafted 18th-Century First Rate Ship Model

So without further due let me introduce you to a new kid on the block. Locally made in Savannah, Ga, Savannah Spirits Distilling Co is less than a year old and make a vodka and two rums a white and an amber rum. This is the amber rum I’m trying for the first time tonight. With this distillery in The peach state makes it the second distillery that makes rum in the great state of Ga. They are located in Savannah’s historic district on the corner of Whitaker Street and West State Street in a four building lot. In the same building the distillery is in there is a chop house style restaurant that serves fine steaks

and seafood. The reviews for the Chop house just sound amazing. The distillery uses both continuous column and pot stills made from copper to make the handcrafted rum that sells in and around Chatham county and surrounding area.

This amber rum is actually more of a pale gold in the bottle but resembles more along the lines of a PinĂłt Grigio or even Champagne in the snifter. A quick swirl reveals the fast forming and falling legs leaving only tiny droplets behind inside the glass.

Ever since pouring it into my snifter the aroma has been tempting me to just drink it with out the actual tasting and review of it. Never have I known a rum to take on the funk that Jamaican rum has, in the aroma. I can’t explain why it does I just know that it does. There is a bouquet of wonderful aromas that have been tantalizing me. Caramel and ripe peaches only start the nose, oak and vanilla accompany this and add their essence to the funk in only guessing comes from the pot still and maybe the reuse of leftover ferment. I hasn’t wait to taste it.

A sweetness from caramel and vanilla and a faint taste of peaches. The funk stays into the flavor and only adds to the taste. I need to af that this rum is only 80 proof but it is so good. There is a slight burn that quickly diminishes before reaching the throat.

and I regret telling this but it may be another little while before another review will be done. With me ship, the Grey Ghost sunk, plundering has rolled to a stop. So I’m in need of finding another ship to get things going again before I can find a new rum to review. I do appreciate all the support I received when it did happen, so from the bottom of me heart thank ye all. There may be one review coming soon but it’s all hearsay till I have it in hand. So till the next time around stay safe, stay alert, stay alive, and drink responsibly me hearties. Thar shall be no pilotin ye ship under the influence of rum or another intoxicant. This is ye captain speakin ye rum captain that is, so until the next time, down me hatch mates.

I normally do a drink section here but honestly I can’t think of a rum drink that wouldn’t be great with this one. Neat, chilled, mixed, I can see a multitude of drinks that can be mixed using this.

So mates I know it has been a while

Captain Jameson von Greywolfe

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We are all about all familiar with the Pirates of the Caribbean films. In the third film, “Worlds End”, we were introduced to the Brethren and the Pirate Lords. There were a very real brethren or also known as Brethren of the Coast. The group was loosely composed of pirates and privateers. They were active throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, sailing the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico.

The captains formed a syndicate with letters of marque and reprisal who regulated their privateering enterprises within the community of privateers and with their outside benefactors.

Many were primarily working

private merchant mariners of the Protestant background, usually with e origin of English of French At the height of the “Thirty Year War” – England was in a various conflict Spain. The Protestant communities of France, Germany and the Netherlands, the privateers of those nationalities were issued letters of Marque to raid Catholic French and Spanish shipping companies and any territories.

The Brethren was primarily located the island of Tortuga off the coast of Haiti. Another location many could be found meeting was the city of Port Royal on the island of Jamaica.

The original Brethren were mostly French Huguenot and

British Protesters. As time went on their ranks were joined by other adventures of various nationalities; including Spaniards, African sailors, a number of escaped slaves and outlaws of various sovereigns.

The Brethren of the Coast were mostly of Protestant and Common Law heritage which meant they did not respect the brutality of Maritime Law and the imperial powers of the time. The Brethren of the Coast was structured in a hierarchal command structure which allowed for individual rights, equitable right to a share of the treasure along with legislative decision making and the first fundamentals of democracy in the New World.

For most of its years the Brethren of the Coast was an informal organization but that all changed under Henry Morgan who managed to organize all of the buccaneers and establish a set system of rules and laws. He managed to unite all of the various buccaneer groups into cohesive groups that could focus their efforts and

Huguenot : (/ˈhjuːɡənɒt/, /ˈhjuːɡənoʊ/ or /ˌhjuːɡəˈnoʊ/; French: [yɡ(ə)nõ]) is a designation for a French Protestant or ethnoreligious group that follows the Reformed tradition.

directly siege and destroy Spanish settlements.

Henry Morgan is perhaps the most famous member of the Brethren and the one usually noted with codifying its organization. However, following the demographic changes which featured the rise of slave labor in the Caribbean islands, most maritime families moved to the mainland colonies of the future United States or to their home countries. A few, unable to compete effectively with slave labor, enamored of easy riches, or out of angst continued to maintain the Brethren of the Coasts as a purely criminal organization which preyed upon all civilian maritime shipping. This second era of the Brethren began the start of the age of piracy and brigandage which featured the Caribbean until socioeconomic and military changes of the late 18th and early 19th century finally broke its back.

Many pirates made their journeys there, some of the most famous perhaps are Alexandre Exquemelin and Jonathan Mcloud.

Timber Gray Wolf

Mark your Calendar, and get ready for the Event season to kick off for 2019. As the year goes on, we shall add more events and update any dates that may change.

2019

January

12th - Renaissance Masqued Dinner and Ball

• 3pm to Midnight • Sullivan’s Black Forest, 281 Heinlein, Frankenmuth, Michigan 48734

February

22nd~24th - Official 4th Annual Michigan Nordic Fire Festival • 620 W Shepherd St, Charlotte, MI 4881

March

8th~10th -Grand Rapids Symphony; Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

• Fri: 8pm, Sat: 8pm, Sun: 3pm • DeVos Performance Hall, 303 Monroe Ave NW, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503

9th - Shiver Me Timbers

• Woodshire Place Banquet Facility • 6520 W Grand River Rd, Fowlerville, Michigan 48836

16th~17th - 44th Kalamazoo Living History Show

• 9am t0 4pm • Kalamazoo County Expo Center, 2900 Lake St, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49048

April

13th - Frankenfeast (Feast)

• Kicks off at 2pm • Bavarian Inn Restaurant, 713 S. Main Street, Frankenmuth, MI 48734

27th - Chicago Rum Festival 2019

• 12:30 PM - 6:30 PM • Logan Square Auditorium, 2539 North Kedzie Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60647

We are looking for events If you know of any close to you or some of your favorites, please contact us.

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This month’s Legendary Ship was not only a warship, but a castle on water. Compared to many other ships were we went into detail about the battles the ship might have went through. We will be covering the mass size of the Mary Rose. For the time she was built it shocks us for the magnitude size she was. So we hope you are shocked as we were when researching this Legendary Ship.

The Mary Rose is a carrack-type (a three to four masted ship) warship of the English Tudor navy of King Henry VIII. In Portsmouth, construction of the Mary Rose started in 1510 and was launched in July 1511 to be towed to London. While in London she was to be dressed as a proper warship, fitted with rigging and decking, and supplied with armaments. Other than the structural details needed to sail, stock and arm the Mary Rose, she was also equipped with flags, banners and streamers (extremely elongated flags that were flown from the top of the masts) that were either painted or gilded.

Constructing a warship of the size of the Mary Rose was a major undertaking, requiring vast quantities of high-quality material.

To build a state of the art warship, these materials were primarily made of oak. The total amount of timber that was needed for the construction is roughly calculated round 600 large oaks trees. To sum up the

amount would be a small forest; about 40 acres (about a 10th of a Square Mile) of woodland. The huge trees that had been common in Europe and the British Isles in previous centuries were by the 16th century quite rare, which meant that timbers were brought in from all over southern England.

The largest timbers used in the construction were of roughly the same size as those used in the roofs of the largest cathedrals in the high Middle Ages. An unworked hull plank would have weighed over 660lb (300kg), and one of the main deck beams would have weighed close to three-quarters of a tonne (1653.467lb) The Mary Rose was built according to the carrack-style with high “castles” in the bow and stern with a low waist of open decking in the middle. The shape of the hull has a so-called tumblehome form and reflected the use of the ship as a platform for heavy guns. Above the waterline, the hull gradually

narrows to compensate for the weight of the guns and to make boarding more difficult.

Since only part of the hull has survived, it is not possible to determine many of the basic dimensions with any great accuracy. The moulded breadth, the widest point of the ship roughly above the waterline, was about 12 metres (39 ft) and the keel about 32 metres (105 ft), although the ship’s overall length is uncertain.

The hull had four levels separated by three decks. The terminology for these in the 16th century was still not standardised so the terms used here are those that were applied by the Mary Rose Trust. The hold lay furthest

down in the ship, right above the bottom planking below the waterline. This is where the kitchen, or galley, was situated and the food was cooked. Directly aft of the galley was the mast step, a rebate in the centre-most timber of the keelson, right above the keel, which supported the main mast, and next to it the main bilge pump. To increase the stability of the ship, the hold was where the ballast was placed and much of the supplies were kept. Right above the hold was the orlop, the lowest deck. Like the hold it was partitioned and was also used as a storage area for everything from food to spare sails.

Above the orlop lay the main deck which

housed the heaviest guns. The side of the hull on the main deck level had seven gunports on each side fitted with heavy lids that would have been watertight when closed. This was also the highest deck that was caulked and waterproof. Along the sides of the main deck there were cabins under the forecastle and sterncastle which have been identified as belonging to the carpenter, barber-surgeon, pilot and possibly also the master gunner and some of the officers. The top deck in the hull structure was the upper deck (or weather deck) which was exposed to the elements in the waist. It was a dedicated fighting deck without any known partitions and a mix of heavy and light guns. Over the open waist the upper deck was entirely covered with a coarse netting as a defence measure against boarding. Though very little of the upper deck has survived, it has been suggested that it housed the main living quarters of the crew underneath the sterncastle. A

drainage located in this area has been identified as a possible “piss-dale�, a general urinal to complement the regular toilets that would probably have been located in the bow.

The castles of the Mary Rose had additional decks, but since virtually nothing of them survives, their design has had to be reconstructed from historical records.

Contemporary ships of equal size were consistently listed as having three decks in both castles. Although speculative, this layout is supported by the illustration in the Anthony Roll and the gun inventories.

During the early stages of excavation of the wreck, it was believed that the ship had originally been built with clinker (or clench) planking, a technique where the hull consisted of overlapping planks that bore the structural strength of the ship. Cutting gunports into a clinker-built hull would have meant weakening

the ship’s structural integrity, and it was assumed that she was later rebuilt to accommodate a hull with carvel edge-toedge planking with a skeletal structure to support a hull perforated with gunports.

Later examination indicates that the clinker planking is not present throughout the ship; only the outer structure of the sterncastle is built with overlapping planking, though not with a true clinker technique As the Mary Rose was built and served during a period of rapid development of heavy artillery, her armament was a mix of old and new innovations. The heavy armament was a mix of older-type wrought iron and cast bronze guns, which differed considerably in size, range and design. The large iron guns were made up of staves or bars welded into cylinders and then reinforced by shrinking iron hoops and breech loaded, from the back, and equipped with simpler gun-carriages made from hollowed-out elm logs with only one pair of wheels, or without wheels entirely. The bronze guns were cast in one piece and rested on four-wheel carriages which were essentially the same as those used until the 19th century. The breech-loaders were cheaper to produce and both easier and faster to reload, but could take less powerful charges than cast bronze guns. Generally, the bronze guns used cast iron shot and were more suited to penetrate hull sides while the iron guns used stone shot that would shatter on impact and leave large, jagged holes, but both could also fire a variety of ammunition intended to destroy rigging and light structure or injure enemy personnel.

The majority of the guns were small iron guns with short range that could be aimed and fired by a single person. The two most common are the bases, breech-loading swivel guns, most likely placed in the castles, and hailshot pieces, small muzzle-loaders with rectangular bores and fin-like protrusions that were used to support the guns against the railing and allow the ship structure to take the force of the recoil. Though the design is unknown, there were two top pieces in a 1546 inventory (finished after the sinking) which were probably similar to a base, but placed in one or more of the fighting tops.

Timber Gray Wolf

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