HISTORY
the Captain started the engine, but the clutch wouldn’t disengage and actually began to drive the ship faster towards the moored vessels. mackreath tried to disengage the engine but only managed to catch a crewmember’s hand in the mechanism. eventually he got it into reverse, but the tide then started to drive the ship towards a ‘gin palace’ that had failed to spot them, it seemed, until too late. they missed, but mackreath was
never to forget that rather rude introduction to the Dart. For the next two years he spent much time in Dartmouth onboard, removing various modern additions on deck that ruined her lines and added two more masts, returning her to the graceful form she had when she had first sailed. His ‘project’ was now a fully functioning, beautifully finished topsail schooner. this brought it to the attention of bbC when scouts
The Charlotte Rhodes starring in the BBC’s The Odedin Line.
they had plans to change the name of the ship to ‘Anne’, but it proved so much trouble to remove the name plaque he had already attached that the script was changed to make James Onedin’s ship, the Charlotte rhodes, ensuring her fame would reach unfathomable heights. the Onedin Line became a phenomenon, not just in the uK but around the world. In a decade when countless programmes came from America to the uK, it was one of the few to make the opposite journey. You might say it was the Downton Abbey of its day, and the Charlotte rhodes was instantly recognisable to millions. Over the next nine years, the Charlotte
arrived in Dartmouth for the pilot episode of a programme described by its producer as ‘the Forsythe saga at sea’. ‘Captain mac’ as he was known around the town now, took the ship out for its very first trip under full sail on the first day of filming. not that he told the television crew that.
rhodes would become as big a star as peter gilmore or Anne stallybrass: it attracted flotillas of admirers wherever it sailed. many asked to see the plush captain’s quarters they watched each week but were often disappointed to find a three and a half tonne rolls royce engine. the Charlotte rhodes was eventually destroyed by arson in October 1979 when the ship was moored in Amsterdam. In later episodes, the role of the Charlotte rhodes was filled by the “Kathleen and may”.•
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