Only the Brits could send a Royal Navy ship named after a pork sausage to bring home the bacon from a Muslim country!
Off to the rescue of British citizens.
God speed HMS Cumberland.
Only the Brits could send a Royal Navy ship named after a pork sausage to bring home the bacon from a Muslim country!
Off to the rescue of British citizens.
God speed HMS Cumberland.
D*mn, why didn’t I think of that!
Godfrey Lout-Whatsisname, by any chance?
And by the way, Tim, and hopefully without sounding too crapulous, the ship isn’t named after a pork sausage, but a place, a place that used to have its own Duke.
The most famous of its Dukes did, of course, score a few well-celebrated victories against bare-arsed Highlanders, before becoming a marked second best to Friedrich Die Grosse when negotiating the Convention of Kloster-Zeven.
Food for thought in there, perhaps.
Did you get that from Sickipedia, or did they get it from another source too?
No, from Fred Anderson’s book ‘Crucible of War’. Google it – or even better, read it.