Another Benbow.
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Another Benbow.
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This pub is at Puerto del Carmen in the Canary Islands.
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The Thirsty Whale bar is in Napier, New Zealand.
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The Famous Fox Hound
In 1767 sixteen year old Lemuel Parken left his home in Wilmslow, Cheshire, and walked to Portsmouth to join the Royal Navy, not knowing that he would one day create a legend in the village of Brixton in Devon.
With a letter of introduction from Captain Drury, a shipmate of his father the Reverend George Parken, Lemuel was accepted into the Navy as a Volunteer First Class. Having been educated by his father, it did not take long for his superiors to discover he could read and write, was good at mathematics and knew the classics, Greek and Latin. Thanks to his Menorcan mother, he was fluent in Spanish and inherited her swarthy good looks.
His promotion was rapid and at the age of twenty he was rated Master, making him responsible for ship navigation, pilotage and midshipman’s training. As such he was the senior warrant officer on board.
A young Cornish Midshipman, Edward Pellew, then came under his care and became this country’s most successful frigate captain Sir Edward Pellew, Viscount Exmouth. When Pellew was appointed to his first command he insisted on Lemuel becoming his ship’s master and together they spent several years capturing many enemy ships and enjoying the high rewards of prize money.
His fortune made, Lemuel was introduced to Edward Pellew’s brother, who was Controller of Customs. Lemuel was invited to leave the Navy and join the Revenue Service as a Commander. His first mission was to clear the Yealm River and its estuary of smuggling and illicit trading with the Bretons. He discovered that their link was a woman known by the colourful name of Black Joan, who was able to signal from the Mewstone at Wembury. So widespread was the smuggling situation at the time that even a Royal Navy frigate had been caught in the act.
Lemuel was given command of an American-built cutter “The Foxhound”, faster and more heavily armed than a normal Customs vessel. Raising a crew from ex-shipmates and using all of their past experience, they discovered the source of the smuggling ring to be at Cofflete Creek at Brixton Torr. One cold wet November night in 1785, the “Foxhounds” laid an ambush and on the given signal attacked the smugglers, capturing no less than forty of them in Cofflete Creek Mill. The prisoners, including ten Bretons, were brought to trial in the Assize Room above what is now the restaurant of this Public House.
The local magistrate found them guilty and they were submitted for sentence at Plymouth, from whence they were transported to the Colonies for life. Black Joan was banished to Looe Island in Cornwall. So pleased were the authorities with this result that they rewarded Lemuel by giving him the lease of these premises for his own use. He named it “The Famous Fox Hound Inn” and ran it as a successful coaching inn. In time, the “famous” was dropped and the origins of the inn became confused with hunting.
Retiring to his mother’s birthplace, Es Castell on the island of Menorca, Lemuel lived to the grand old age of eighty-nine and lies buried in the English officers’ Cemetery above the town.
Edward Boyle, April 1999 .
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HMS Torbay was previously HMS Neptune, a 90-gun second rate launched in 1683, renamed Torbay in 1750 and sold in 1785.
Still in New Zealand, this bar is in Kaiteriteri.
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This pub called the Whale's Tooth is in Lincolnville, Maine, U.S.A..
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Tom Crean was involved in both Scott's ill-fated race to the South Pole and in Shackelton's voyage to Antarctica on the Endurance. In the latter case, the Endurance got caught in the ice. After about a year and a half, Scott, Crean and others got into a little boat, sailed 1500 km to South Georgia and then, without a map, hiked 48 km for 36 hrs over the island's glaciated mountain range to a small whaling station. After about 3 months, they were able to finally able to organise the rescue of the rest of the crew still trapped on the ice.
After such an ordeal, the appropriate thing to do is to return to the village of Annascaul where you were born in the Southwest of Ireland and establish a pub called the South Pole Inn. Both the region and the pub are well worth a visit.
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The Prince O' Whales is reputedly the oldest sports bar in Los Angeles. It may be found at 335 Culver Blvd, Playa Del Rey.
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A topical link for today, continuing the connection with the Royal Family.
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William was raised in the Royal Navy from boyhood. During the American War of Independence his father, George III, sent him to serve under the brilliant admiral, Samuel, Lord Hood. At this time William met and befriended Horatio Nelson, who would assume Hood’s mantle in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Although his own sea-going career ended in 1790, William remained a naval man to the end of his life. In 1827 he was appointed Lord High Admiral by Prime Minister George Canning, who hoped to cultivate the heir to throne.
Rob.
This tavern is in Deer Island, Maine, U.S.A.
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Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, GCB (19 April 1757 – 23 January 1833) was a British naval officer. He fought during the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the Napoleonic Wars.
Another Thirsty Whale; this time from Algonquin, Illinois.
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Not a very clear shot of The Crown and Anchor.
This pub was in Rotherhithe, London. Sadly, it is now closed.
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Ten ships in the Royal navy have been named H.M.S. York. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_York
The most recent was a Type-42 destroyer.
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The Shipperies public house was probably built to provide refreshments and overnight lodgings for visitors to the International Exhibition of Navigation, Traveling, Commerce and Manufacture (known as the Shipperies Exhibition), which was held at the Exhibition Hall on Edge Lane in 1886.
This pub is in Portsmouth.
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Another famous Bristol public house.
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This Blue Anchor is at Barry, near Cardiff in Wales.
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Another Blue Anchor; this one is in Aintree, Liverpool.
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Yet another Blue Anchor. this time at Minehead in Somerset. It seems a popular name for a pub.
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Admiral of the Fleet Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, KB, PC (21 February 1705 – 17 October 1781) was a Royal Navy officer. As captain of the third-rate HMS Berwick he took part in the Battle of Toulon in February 1744 during the War of the Austrian Succession. He also captured six ships of a French squadron in the Bay of Biscay in the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre in October 1747.
Hawke went on to achieve a victory over a French fleet at the Battle of Quiberon Bay in November 1759 during the Seven Years' War, preventing a French invasion of Britain. He developed the concept of a Western Squadron, keeping an almost continuous blockade of the French coast throughout the war.
Hawke also sat in the House of Commons from 1747 to 1776 and served as First Lord of the Admiralty for five years between 1766 and 1771. In this post, he was successful in bringing the navy's spending under control and also oversaw the mobilisation of the navy during the Falklands Crisis in 1770
This Blue Anchor is at Helston in Cornwall.
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Another Admiral Hawke.
Rob.
Yet another Blue Anchor; this time in Hoylake. I wonder why it is such a popular name for pubs.
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Vice Admiral William Fitzwilliam Owen (17 September 1774 – 3 November 1857), was a British naval officer and explorer. He is best known for his exploration of the west and east African coasts, discovery of the Seaflower Channel off the coast of Sumatra and for surveying the Canadian Great Lakes.
They even have gone abroad. This one is in Palm Beach, Florida.
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From a Blue Anchor to a Rusty Anchor, this pub is in Pohnpei, Hawaii.
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Must have run out of blue paint Dave!:happy:
Rob.
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Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis in S'hampton.
Looks more like a Bank than a pub to me.
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Admiral of the Fleet Sir Lucius Curtis, 2nd Baronet, KCB, DL (3 June 1786 – 14 January 1869) was a senior officer of the Royal Navy during the nineteenth century. The son of Sir Roger Curtis, 1st Baronet, Lord Howe's flag captain at the Glorious First of June, Lucius served during the Napoleonic Wars and was heavily involved in the Mauritius campaign of 1810. During this campaign, Curtis commanded the frigate HMS Magicienne with the blockade squadron under Josias Rowley and was still in command when the ship was destroyed at the Battle of Grand Port. Magicienne grounded on a coral reef early in the engagement and despite the best efforts of Curtis and his crew, the ship had to be abandoned, Curtis setting her on fire to prevent her subsequent capture.
After Curtis was freed from captivity in December 1810, he was cleared of any wrongdoing in the loss of his ship and returned to his naval career. He later rose to become an Admiral of the Fleet.
This pub is in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
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