The Cachalot was first produced in June 2001 as a four page newsletter intended to keep members abreast of club functions and activities and informed as to what the Captain was getting up to in their name.
It is now a 16 page quarterly journal containing, in addition to the above, articles and memoirs written or contributed by Cachalots.
Editorial policy has been to try and keep it that way rather than recycle content that can be found in other nautical publications. We are, however, not adverse to including such items that take our fancy and we think might take that of our readers.
The Cachalot, as printed and distributed to members, is now posted in the members only section, together with the previous editions.
Articles which have appeared in those editions and which may appeal to a wider audience are reproduced here, in no particular order other than the latest are nearer the top.
The list will be populated and updated as time permits.
Feel free to pass them on, but if you do then please give us a mention.
This page was last updated on: December 2nd 2023
A Criminal Pilotage Investigation
Clan Maclachen, story of a stormy diversion on her last B&C trip
Travels through time and space
Mr. Mayor, the Admiral of the Port
Southampton & the D Day Landings
A Shipyard Apprenticeship Part Four
A Shipyard Apprenticeship Part Three
A Shipyard Apprenticeship Part Two
A Shipyard Apprenticeship Part One
A Short Voyage on a Square Rigger
Lost vessels and saved treasure
Neptune’s Prefabs – the TIDs, CHANTs and Fabrics
Union Castle Line 40 th Anniverary of the last Mailship
Expedition Sailing at the School of Navigation
The Cachalots and the Mendi Memorials
The Development of Navigational Instruments
Autonomous Ships – Fact or Fiction
Prelude (To the Battle of the Atlantic)
Salvage-industry veteran Noble calls for rethink of LOF contract
Let your Light so shine before men
Lack of a UK Marine Salvage Capability
The Salvage of the S.S. Great Britain – The Voyage Home
The Salvage of the S.S. Great Britain – 1
A Sailors lot is not always a happy one.
The Suffolk Golding Mission, A Considerable Service.
The October 15th 1987 Hurricane
Piracy – West Africa running riot
Dredgings from the fast-failing memory of Electrical Superintendent Eddie Hunter
Dit Dit Dah Dit Dit Dit Dah Dit Dit Dit Dah Dit Dit Dit Dah Dit
More Dredgings – The Fire Course
More Dredgings – The Stewardess’s Bunk
Another Iceberg – more innocent victims
The Voyage of the British Tanker HOPEMOUNT in 1942
Hampshire Royalists at the Royal Wedding
Dibden Bay deadlock – a way ahead
Southampton Shipowners Association – The Cachalots
The Case of Capt. Fryatt in the Great War
Cruising – Tony Davis – Shantyman
An everyday story of seafaring life
Three Queens and some Southampton History
A ship, two dreams and a coincidence
Departure Time, 1300 hours, Friday
The Day the Bottle Didn’t Break
Isle of Wight Pilotage District
Last Voyage of the S.S.Clan Alpine
History of the Liberty Ship SS Jeremiah O’Brien
Southampton’s Maritime Memorials
Newest Titanic Memorial in Southampton
From Sail to Steam, Ian Thomson’s Forebears
To the Distant Shores of the Falkland Islands
Navigating through the Centuries
The Voyage of HMS Cook, March’57-Aug ’58
Captain James Goodridge and the Mail Packet “Wonder”