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LONG. ' CRESP NDErT, .
•QRUCEFIEW NATIVE DIES..
Long-thne correspondent of
The Huron Expositor and for-
mer Brucefield resident, James
H. O'Neill, of Lapeer, Michigan,
died Thursday in St. Joseph
Hospital, Flinn. He was buried
in Bafrd's cemetery, Brucefield,
on Monday.
As a youth, Mr. O'Neill re-
ported Brucefield happenings
for The Expositor, and several
years ago, following his retire-
ment as an active newspaper-
man, began a series of letters,
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in which he recalled events in
the Brucefield area during his
younger days. His last letter
appeared five weeks ago.
The Flint journal, reporting
his death, says:
"Tip O'Neill, active in Flint
politics 30 years ago and a
newspaperman before that, died
Thursday in St, Joseph Hospi-
tal. His real name was James
H. O'Neill, but "Tip" was so
consistently used that few
knew it was only a nickname.
Retired from politics, writing
and business, he had lived in
Lapeer the last 10 years. He
was 70.
"Services will be at 2 p.m.
Saturday at Muir Brothers Fun-
eral Home, Lapeer, Burial will
be at Brucefield, Ont.
"Mr. O'Neill once was a close
associate of the late William
H. McKeighan, who was mayor
of Flint five times.
"In 1924 and 1925, he served
as editor of The Daily Herald,
a newspaper published here by
McKeighan.
"Running on the McKeighan-
backed "green "slate," he easily
won election to the City Con} -
mission in 1931. During his ten-
ure, he was the city's vice may-
or.
"Before entering Flint poli-
tics, Mr. O'Neill was sports edi-
tor of The Flint Journal, editor
of the Lansing Capital News
and then editor of the Wausau
Daily Record Herald in Wiscon-
sin. Returning to Flint, he be-
came a sales representative for
home -study courses in the late
1920's. He wrote free-lance for
magazines.
"After retirement from pub-
lic life, he entered the real es-
tate business,
"Mr. O'Neill in his youth
played soccer, football and
hockey..
He leaves his wife, the form-
er Verne Butler, whom he mar-
ried in 1944, and a brother and
two sisters in Western Canada.
There are two stepdaughters,
Mrs. Jack B. Lawrence and
Mrs. Mack J. McCrandall, both
of Flint."
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(By W. E. E., in London Fred
Press)
H.M.S. Cherub's guns, "one
mounted between main and Miz-
zen, the other between main and
funnel," guarded the Canadian
shores of Lake Huron and Gode-
rick in particular, from Fenian
raiders between 1866 and 1868.
If the gunboat at any time en-
gaged the enemy it is not re•
Incorded, but no Fenians landed
these parts.
Though steam -driven, Cherub
had three masts and carried a
full spread of canvas. When
under full sail the funnel could
be lowered to the deck as super-
fluous. The ship was built some-
what leisurely between 1861.
and 1865. Steam had been in
use in the Royal Navy for 40
years—in H.M.S. Monkey in
1821 and in Diana in the
Burmese war of 1825-26 — but
their lordships of the Admir-
alty evidently were not convinc-
ed that steam had come to stay.
Ninety years after Cherub
left these waters, her picture in
Huron Pioneer Museum stirred
up more interest in maritime
circles in England than her or-
iginal commissioning and patrol
duty. •
It may be necessary to ex-
plain for the present generation
that the Fenian were a United
States branch of the Irish Revo-
lutionary Brotherhood, dedicat-
ed to forcible separation of Ire-
land from British rule. The
movement was crushed in Ire-
land, and on this side of the
water a New York convention
decided to set up an independ-
ent government and make a
diversionary attack upon Can-
ada. In order to "free" this
country it was planned to at-
tack at three points: Fort Erie,
Prescott (to reach Ottawa) and
the Eastern Townships of Que-
bec. In March, 1866, the gov-
ernment called for 10,000 vol-
unteers; 14,000 responded. The
raids brought about the organ-
ization of a whole system of
militia units that was to last
for many years—the 27th Lamb -
ton, 28th Perth, 29th Waterloo,
and so on. More than that, it
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consolidated public opinion in
trier of Confederition..
Nine Did
At Sarnia, a batallion w
hurriedly organized under
fernier British army of Seer, and
one of the majors was a fu-
ture Prime Minister of Canad a,
Alexander Mackenzie. F r q
Zorn, in Oxford, 55 men
der Capt. Duncan went to Sand-
wich to meet the invaders, At
the Battle of Ridgeway, in May.
nine volunteers, mostly Toron-
to
University students, were
killed. The Canadian force had
met the invaders before the
commander of a supporting
British regular force in re
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a few fingered on to the mi
1860s.
'"Actually," liar. Osbon write
Was "none were completed in
a for the.Crimean War, but a fe
served in the Baltip. in 185
Even so, they are generally d
scribed as Crimean gunboats.
m "A number in the years f .
un lowing were -put on Useful wo
on the rivers of .China, dur
the local wars of that peri
and a few were sunk. Qthe
carried out the varied tasks
tenders to large vessels an
establishments, and'thg.. rema'
der were placed in reserve. B
the mid -1860s something of
ar scandaI arose when it wa
found that several of these ve
m sels were falling to pieces
result of hasty building an
use of green timber. The a
miralty salvaged the machine
and scrapped the hulls.
Specifications Vary
"While they were built fro
several slightly different sets o
plans, their main division wa
their machinery, hence they ar
referred to as 20, 40 or 60 h.p
gunboats. Most were 60 h.p
and did not differ greatly in ap
pearance. Some had two masts
some three, hut in actual ri
there were considerable varia
tions."
Sail ranged from just a fore
and -aft rig, with or without gaff
topsails, to a barque rig boast-
ing top -gallants to both fore
and main.
Cherub was one of a small
group of the largest of the 60
h.p. vessels which were built at
Portsmouth. It was originally
intended that they 'should be
armed with 18 -pounder smooth-
bore guns, but this was chang-
ed before they were completed,
in favor of a smaller, heavier -
calibre armament. Cherub was
given one pivot -mounted 68-
pounder and one 32 -pounder
smooth -bore gun. Hardly any
information has survived about
the behavior of these ships at'
sea, though it is recorded that
H.M.S. Dapper was lively en-
ough to cause more than one
raw cadet to lose his breakfast.
Cherub returned home to
Chatham in 1874 to pay off, and
was laid up at Sheerness. In
1876 she was brought back into
use as tender to Penelope at
Harwich, remaining there until
1864. The next year she was
based at Portland as tender to
Hercules and in 1887-8 was us-
ed for coast guard duties. The
Navy List of 1889 shows her
being offered for sale, and in
the following year she was de-
leted.
Itis important to bear
mind, when the excitement of
the time is recalled, that there
were no telephones, motor ve-
hicles or paved roads, and that
news service as we know it had
not been organized.
Nearly 200 years ago, Charles
Dibdin wrote a verse which
may account for the name of
the gunboat sent to Lake Hur-
on:
"There's a sweet little cherub
that sits up aloft
To keep watch for the life of
poor Jack."
At any rate, Cherub was sent
here and Britomart, sister ship,
to lakes Ontario and Erie, "in
consequence of the Fenian
threat." There is no mention
of. Cherub in a contemporary
account of doings in the Gode-
rich area. The late William
Swaffield, a member of the
home guard, wrote:
"I well remember when I don-
ned the badge and walked up
and down to the harbor. We
had an artillery company, a
rifle company and an infantry
company, and likewise the fight-
ing Irishmen rushing in from
Goderich Township and other
places. The Hands bakery, op-
posite the Park House, was the
guardhouse. Along " the bank
were rifle pits, and on the dock
a battery of salt barrels. We
had a steamer on the lake as
lookout by night, and had sen-
tinels along the bank watching
should anycome ashore.. News
came at one time that the en-
emy had left Chicago — of
course for Goderich. Another
time,,,news came that a number
of vessels had left Port Huron
for Goderich. John Campbell
and myself started through the
woods for the lake shore to
warn the settlers along the Bay-
field road. Horsemen were put
on between Goderich and Bay-
field."
Arouses Interest
The story of the Cherub pic-
ture is of itself interesting. It
retched the museum from the
original small collection of an-
tinques that was stored in the
public Iibrary. Nobody knows
who the donor was. It really
achieved fame in 1958.
"John F. Miller, of Great
Lakes Photo Co., Grosse Point,
Mich., visited our museum,"
George Currell of the museum
staff recalls. "We had some
pictures of sailing ships, and
some were lent him to make
copies for his collection. One
was this small picture of the
gunboat Cherub. He sent that
to a magazine in England called
Sea Breeze, circulating among
maritime people, and it created
a lot of interest. Mr. Mit'ier
had four different historians
write to him asking where he
got it. They asked for copies,
and I got two letters from Eng
land asking for copies.
Ore copy of the Cherub pic-
ture was placed in the National
Maritime Museum by A. B.
Whitby, of Cheltenham, who al-
so obtained from the Imperial
War Museum a print of the
Britomart.
G. A. Osbon, of Booklands
Park, Blackheath, London, as
result of research at the Na-
tional Maritime Museum report-
ed to Mr. Currell last Novem-
her that Cherub was one of
nearly 175 wooden gunboats
built for the Crimean War.
Most were completed during
Different Cherub
George Percival Kaye, of Gil-
lingham, Dorset, who "visited
Canada once in the first decade
of this century on a gunboat,
seeing Quebec and MontreaI,"
was another who was interested
in the Cherub photo in Sea
Breeze magazine. He wrote to
Mr. Currell on January 18 this
year an account of an earlier
Cherub in the 1812-15 war. The
head of the historical section at
the Admirality informed him,
however, that the Cherub shown
lying in Goderich harbor is not
the one that served in "the
American War of 1812-14."
"The year 1866 seems to have
been a busy Fenian year," Mr.
Kaye wrote, "as my dad, who
was born in 1840 and after-
wards joined the staff of the
Bank of England,. told me he
had been in Manchester that
year on some business and had
seen the last public execution
in the country. This was the
hanging of three Irish Fenians,
Allyn, Larken and Goolden, for
the murder of Sgt. Brett, in a
police van. They were strung
up to a beam overlooking the
River Irwell, right opposite the
parish church, • 1,ater to be-
come Manchester Cathedral, St.
Mary's . . Even today in
some parts of Ireland they are
alluded to as the 'Irish mar-
tyrs of
ar•tyrs,of Manchester'."
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LIVED IN SEAFORTH, HENSALL
GEORGE WALKER, 83, DiES
George Walker, Hensall, pass-
ed away at his home Wednes-
day evening in his 83rd year.
He farmed in Tuckersmith
and later in McKillop before
moving to Hensall about 35
years ago, where he conducted
a poultry and egg business. He
suffered a stroke eight years
ago and since then had been
an invalid.
When his health permitted
he was an fictive member of
Carmel Presbyterian Church.
He was a member of Hensall
IOOF 223, and that organiza-
tion will conduct a service
Thursday evening.
He is survived by his wife,
the former Ella Grassick; a
son, Donald, and a daughter,
Miss Olive Walker, Reg.N., of
St. Petersburg, Fla., and an-
other daughter, Helen, Mrs.
George A. Gould, of London,
and a granddaughter, Diana
Gould.
Funeral services will be held
from Bonthron Funeral Home,
Hensall, Saturday afternoon,
and will be conducted by Rev.
D. Leslie Elder, of Seaforth.
Interment will follow in Baird s
.cemetery.
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