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Originally posted by stamford: ↑

The wooden wall battleship H.M.S. Conway, built in 1839, was anchored in the Menai Strait just along from Llanfair PG as the village is called. By the time we cadets had finished our two years training on the ship most of us were proficient in pronouncing the full name. Came in handy as an ice-breaker around the world !..........still does.

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Wow - you must be older than me!

What a beautiful old ship; shame that we can be so careless with our heritage until it is gone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Conway_(school_ship)
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