Hi Darell.
My good Lady started this thread when we saw a lot of Nautical signs down south.
It is just a pity that a lot of pubs do not have good pictures of the signs on the photographs.
Rob.
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HMS Britannia was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered on 25 April 1751 from Portsmouth Dockyard to the draught specified in the 1745 Establishment.[1] Her keel was laid down on 1 July 1751 and she was launched on 19 October 1762. The cost of building and fitting totalled £45,844/2s/8d. Her main gundeck armament of twenty-eight 42-pounder guns was later replaced by 32-pounders. In the 1790s ten of her quarterdeck guns and two of her forecastle guns were replaced by the same number of 32-pounder carronades.
Britannia was first commissioned in September 1778, and saw service during the War of American Independence. From 1793–1795 she was the flagship of Vice-Admiral Hotham. She fought at the Battle of Cape St Vincent and at the Battle of Trafalgar, where she carried the flag of Rear-Admiral of the White William Carnegie, Earl of Northesk. She lost 10 men killed and 42 wounded at Trafalgar, and following that battle she was laid up in ordinary in the Hamoaze at Plymouth in 1806.
Rob.
This pub is in Rotherhithe, London.
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Also on the flag theme, this pub is in South Shields, Tyne & Wear.
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This is in Woolacombe, Devon.
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Felt that suited today nicely.
Rob.
The Spice Island Inn is in Portsmouth.
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This pub is in Collingtree, Northamptonshire. Royal Navy ships were sometimes referred to as the 'Wooden Walls of Old England'.
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Another Heart of Oak. This time at Exeter.
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Rob.
This pub called 'The Coastguard' is in St. Margaret's Bay, Dover.
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Here is a better picture of its sign.
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Another Admiral Rodney. Must have been a popular fellah what!
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This one at Berrow Green Worcs.
Rob.
This pub is in Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada.
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Another famous explorer.
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Rob.
This pub sign from the Scilly Isles shows the Seven Stones Lightship.
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Hurn bay.
This pub is in St. Ives, Cornwall.
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This Golden Hind is at Cambridge.
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Rob.
This Lifeboat Inn is at Thornham in North Norfolk.
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Heart of Oak Hereford.
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Rob.
This Lifeboat Inn is in Maryport in Cumbria.
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This drinking place is in Tenby.
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Itchenor near West Wittering.
Rob
This pub is in Margate, Kent.
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This pub is in Cardiff.
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Following on from yesterday, this pub is in Exmouth.
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Good find Dave.:clap:
Rob.
The Broadside Tavern is in downtown Boston, U.S.A..
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At Lymington.
This pub is in Halifax.
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And this one is at Thornaby upon Tees.
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Rob.
Another Flying Dutchman, this time from Lowestoft.
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Here is a whimsical tavern from Plymouth.
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This Flying Dutchman is in Camberwell, London.
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