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OK, not the original HMS Pickle but a replica built in 1995. For only £350,000.00 (US$626,640) you too could own a replica of the historic schooner.
For those not familiar with the Pickle, she was the first ship to bring the news of Nelson’s great victory and tragic death at Trafalgar back to England.
“HMS Pickle was a topsail schooner of the Royal Navy. She was originally a civilian vessel named Sting, of six guns, that Lord Hugh Seymour purchased to use as a tender on the Jamaica Station. Pickle was at the Battle of Trafalgar, and though she was too small to take part in the fighting, Pickle was the first ship to bring the news of Nelson’s victory to Great Britain. She also participated in a notable single-ship action when she captured the French privateer Favorite in 1807. Pickle was wrecked in 1808, but without loss of life.
“To this day the Royal Navy’s petty officers have an annual Pickle Night dinner, as do many private clubs in the Commonwealth of Nations. The historic and epic 1805 voyage and journey were commemorated in 2005, the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar, by the New Trafalgar Dispatch and the Trafalgar Way.”
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Is there a way for me to bring this Blog up without the blue background? I find it nearly imposible to read the way it presents on my computer.
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Is there a way for me to bring this Blog up without the blue background? I find it nearly imposible to read the way it presents on my computer.
Your first paragraph describes her correctly as a ‘schooner’. So why do you then go on to say she was a Bermuda Sloop which is clearly not the case?