HMS Thrush, British 1st class gunboat mb-code 2320945 View of the Watermen and

View of the Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames at Brandenburgh House

Saturday 24th January 1981

Budweiser Rocket

American B-movie actress

and a soldier on horseback is offered a drink

HMS Thrush, British 1st class gunboat mb-code 2320945 View of the Watermen andHMS 'Thrush', British 1st class gunboat, c1890 c1893. Launched in 1889, HMS 'Thrush' saw action in the 40 minute Anglo Zanzibar War in 1896. She was also on active service during the Boer War. 'Thrush' was wrecked off Glenarm, Northern Ireland, in 1917 while serving as a salvage vessel. A print from Her Majesty's Navy Including its Deeds and Battles, by Lieut Chas Rathbone Low, Volume III, JS Virtue & Co, London, 1890 1893.