Postcard sent on July 31st, — Announcing the last day of issue of Navy Rum. O ver the centuries, the amount of rum changed from time to time. Admiral Vernon, the hero of Portobello and the Commander-in-Chief, West Indies Station was very much concerned with what he called the swinish vice of drunkenness which he believed was caused by the men drinking their daily allowance of rum neat, that is without water. He believed that if the same amount of rum was mixed with water, and then consumed that it would reduce drunkenness and discipline problems for which the punishment could be brutal.
Thus he issued his infamous Order to Captains No. The quality of the rum made a lasting impression on Charles and being an entrepreneur it gave him an idea.
Charles then approached the British Admiralty and asked for the rights and recipe to reproduce navy rum. The Royal Navy is the oldest, continuously operating military organization in the world with a charter dating back to and the time of Henry VIII.
It is not given to commercialism so unsurprisingly they said no. Hanson U. Remarkably they even went so far as to issue him with all the blending information and samples to match his blend against.
The bottle design was less obvious as previously the rum had been stored on-board ship in imperial gallon 4. He sort to use rums still being made in the original, formally Admiralty owned stills, the single most important being a unique pot-still rum from Demerara Distillers in Guyana who still work two original wooden pot stills. These stills have copper tops and bottoms with oak staves forming their sides.
Let's reshape it today. Corning Gorilla Glass TougherTogether. ET India Inc. ET Engage. ET Secure IT. Panache Tech and Gadgets. Panache People City Life. ET Magazine. Rate Story. Font Size Abc Small. Abc Medium. Abc Large. The end of a Royal Navy tradition, as the daily ration of rum was abolished due to safety concerns, on July 31,
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