What was life like for the common sailor in the Royal Navy of 200 years ago?
How did it compare with life ashore?
Did women really take part in the Battle of Trafalgar?
What methods did the press-gang employ to make up a ship’s complement?
What did Cuthbert Collingwood really think of his friend Horatio Nelson?
Our guest speaker this month, Professor Iain Moffatt, will be discussing topics like these in a story to stir the imagination of anyone with an interest in British Naval tradition
Hot food
Dave will be serving up salt pork and ship’s biscuit hot pie and peas from 7:00. (Order from the bar on arrival).
Talk starts at 7:30 Wednesday 2nd December
See you there, shipmates!
Ray and Susan McGinty
