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This Crows Nest is closer to home. It is in Darite, Liskeard, near Plymouth.
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The Wheelhouse, Russell Avenue Nottingham.
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Rob.
This pub is in St James's, London.
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That is a beautiful sign, Rob. It is too grand to go with this pub in Weston-super-Mare which has the same name.
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Here is another one, not quite so fine though.
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This pub is in Fulham, London.
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Captain Flint's Lerwick.
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Rob.
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This one is at the bottom of Park Street Bristol and shown on the detective series, Strike.
Eileen
The Captains Bar is in Edinburgh. Perhaps it should have been the site of a certain T.V. rum commercial.
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One for the Brethren!
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The Captain Cook pub is in Staithes, North Yorkshire. The correct place for an establishment bearing this famous name.
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David Glasgow Farragut (also spelled Glascoe; July 5, 1801 – August 14, 1870) was a flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War. He was the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and admiral in the United States Navy. He is remembered for his order at the Battle of Mobile Bay usually paraphrased as "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" in U.S. Navy tradition.
This pub is in Dumbarton, Scotland.
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About this establishment Wetherspoon the brewers have written,
"These premises, currently occupied by J D Wetherspoon, were originally mentioned in the 1818 Plan of Dumbarton by John Wood and were shown as a row of properties owned by J Lang. The building was re-modelled by Woolworths in 1939 who had occupied the site since 1922.
James Lang was one of the Langs of Chapelton, he was born in Dumbarton in 1805 and was educated there. James became a law clerk in the town clerk’s office but he later served on the town’s steamers. In 1830, he became the captain of one of the Dumbarton Steamboat Company’s vessels.
He commanded, in succession, the Dumbarton, the Leven, the Prince Albert, the Lochlomond and the Queen. As captain, James Lang used to communicate with his engineer using a worked out system of knocks, banging the heel of his boot against the wooden cover of the steeple engine. It was at Captain Lang’s recommendation that the local Dumbarton firm Denny Bros built a better method of communication into their vessel Lochlomond, in the form of a mechanical indicator.
In 1835, Lang married Agnes MacCallum of Greenock, she was the daughter of Peter MacCallum, founder of P MacCallum & Sons, iron and steel merchants, Greenock. On James’ death in 1850 his son John went on to head the above mentioned Greenock firm of P MacCallum & Sons, and he became prominent in Greenock’s civic life, attaining the positions of Burgh Treasurer and Second Magistrate.
Robert Napier ‘the father of Clyde Shipbuilding’ was born in Dumbarton in 1791. During the 1820s Napier began making ship’s engines and one of the first was for the paddle steamer Leven built in Dumbarton by James Lang."
This bar in York does not have a nautical name but I thought that I should include it especially for you, Rob, for the next time you visit the city, since it reputedly stocks 1,026 different varieties of gin.
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Cheers Dave. I will take this information under advice.
Bligh.
This pub is in Earsdon, Tyne & Wear.
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Another Cannon Inn, this time from Sidmouth.
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This pub is in Old Brompton, Kent.
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Not very imposing for a Commodore!
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Another Cannon, this time in West Molesey, Surrey.
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My favorite place on earth (apart from my home) is this part of London, you can feel the history ...... Attachment 36581
This Cannon is in Low Fell, Gateshead.
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This inn is at Bembridge on the Isle of Wight.
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The Johnny Todd at Kirkby.
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Johnny Todd he took a notion
For to cross the ocean wide
And he left his love behind him
Walkin' down by the Liverpool tide
For a week she wept full sorrows
Tore her hair and wrung her hands
Till she met another sailor
Walkin' down by the Liverpool sands
Why fair maid are you a-weeping
For your Johnny gone to sea?
If you wed with me tomorrow
I'll be by you constantly
I will buy you clothes and blankets
I'll buy you a wedding ring
You shall have a gilded cradle
For to rock you baby in
Johnny Todd came home from sailin'
Sailin' on that ocean wide
And he found his fair and false one
Was another sailor's bride
Now, all you men who go a-sailing
For to fight the foreign foe
Never leave, never leave love like Johnny
Marry her before you go
I remember that song. Its tune was the theme music for the t.v. police series 'Z Cars'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWflrCrwUSw
This pub is in Sidlesham, West Sussex.
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Westbay.
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This Crab and Lobster is at Ventnor on the Isle of Wight.
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Yet another Rodney.
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Attachment 36637 The Grenville is in Plymouth.
Wikipedia writes,"Sir Richard Grenville (15 June 1542 – 10 September 1591) (alias Greynvile, Greeneville, Greenfield, etc.) lord of the manors of Stowe, Kilkhampton in Cornwall and of Bideford in Devon, was an English sailor who, as captain of the Revenge, died at the Battle of Flores (1591), fighting against overwhelming odds, and refusing to surrender his ship to the far more numerous Spanish. His ship, the Revenge, met 53 Spanish war ships near Flores in the Azores. He and his crew fought the fifty three in a three-day running battle. Many Spanish ships were sunk or so badly damaged that they had to retire from the battle. The Revenge was boarded three times and each time the boarders were seen off.
Grenville was also a soldier, an armed merchant fleet owner, privateer, colonizer, and explorer. He took part in the early English attempts to settle the New World, and also participated in the fight against the Spanish Armada. His non-military offices included Member of Parliament for Cornwall, High Sheriff of County Cork from 1569–70 and Sheriff of Cornwall in 1576–77. He was the grandfather of Sir Bevil Grenville (1596-1643) of English Civil War fame, whose son was John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath (1628–1701)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Grenville
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Admiral Duncan Soho.
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The Grenville Arms in Nanpean, St Austell, Cornwall.
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