Never heard of a "Rodney" decanter before! Royal Navy is in my blood. My family live close to Plymouth, supplied 4 million tons of limestone to build Plymouth Breakwater 1812-1841, my grandfather was at Jutland ( our front door bell is the ship's bell of battleship HMS Collossus ( 1910 ), given to him by the navy on his retirement ), and my father was a WW2 submarine officer awarded the DSC by the age of 22. Mind you, I took to the army side of the family, but Royal Naval College Dartmouth definitely influenced my education, through my father. I rather like stories attached to things, so had I heard the Rodney story, I would have remembered it. / After 66 years of life, amazing how many completely new things keep popping up. / I grew up in a house called Cleeve, which had substantial cellars, as well as attics. There was a huge brown bearskin lurking in the cellar, with fur 4 or 5 inches long. As kids, we would wrap ourselves up in it, until we began to overheat. / There was Imperial Yeomanry equipment from the Boer War, where my great-grandfather was awarded the DSO for leading men up a 900 foot kloof to attack the Boers - and being cut to pieces - a forlorn hope distraction to allow the main force to disengage in a British defeat. / A Treasure Trove! /
This was a pleasure to get information backround on these decanters. Thankyou.
Never heard of a "Rodney" decanter before!
Royal Navy is in my blood.
My family live close to Plymouth,
supplied 4 million tons of limestone
to build Plymouth Breakwater 1812-1841,
my grandfather was at Jutland
( our front door bell
is the ship's bell of battleship HMS Collossus ( 1910 ),
given to him by the navy on his retirement ),
and my father was a WW2 submarine officer
awarded the DSC by the age of 22.
Mind you,
I took to the army side of the family,
but Royal Naval College Dartmouth
definitely influenced my education,
through my father.
I rather like stories attached to things,
so had I heard the Rodney story,
I would have remembered it.
/
After 66 years of life,
amazing how many completely new things
keep popping up.
/
I grew up in a house called Cleeve,
which had substantial cellars,
as well as attics.
There was a huge brown bearskin
lurking in the cellar,
with fur 4 or 5 inches long.
As kids,
we would wrap ourselves up in it,
until we began to overheat.
/
There was Imperial Yeomanry equipment
from the Boer War,
where my great-grandfather was awarded the DSO
for leading men up a 900 foot kloof
to attack the Boers -
and being cut to pieces -
a forlorn hope distraction
to allow the main force to disengage
in a British defeat.
/
A Treasure Trove!
/
Every day, a school day.