Pub Names - Ships

Ships

• Albion: at Penarth, near Cardiff, South Wales, and at West Kensington, London
• Ark Royal : the name of five ships of the Royal Navy from 1587, from the time of the Spanish Armada, through the Dardanelles Campaign and the hunt for the Bismarck with the current ship in service since 1981. There is a pub of the name in Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk.
• Cutty Sark, a clipper in dry dock and a pub nearby in Greenwich.
• Golden Hind, Portsmouth: Sir Francis Drake's galleon.
• Invincible, Portsmouth: named after the aircraft carrier and battlecruiser associated with the First and Second battles of the Falklands.
• London Trader, Hastings
• Llandoger Trow, Bristol: a 17th century pub with literary connections.
• Mary Rose, Southsea: named after Henry VIII's battleship of that name.
• Mayflower, famous for sailing the Pilgrim Fathers to Plymouth Colony in 1620. A pub in Rotherhithe.
• Pilot Boat, Bembridge, Isle of Wight and Lyme Regis, Dorset
• Prospect of Whitby, on the north bank of the Thames at Wapping, London.
• Resolute, Poplar High Street, London.
• Royal George, Salisbury, Shoreham-by-Sea, Soho, Workington and may others.
• Sheffield, Barrow-in-Furness (now closed): After HMS Sheffield, built in the local shipyard and sunk in the Falklands War.
• Ship Leopard, near Portsmouth Hard: named after several Royal Navy ships, the most recent having been an anti-aircraft frigate.
• Sloop, Wootton Bridge, Isle of Wight
• Vanguard, Keal Cotes, Lincolnshire (now renamed)
• Victory, Station Road, Chertsey, Surrey, Marble Arch, St. Mawes and elsewhere
• Waverley, Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight: named after the paddle steamer.