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Grog Collection

Background imageGrog Collection: Issuing Grog to Navy

Issuing Grog to Navy
On deck on the Royal Sovereign ship: sailors are issued with grog, a mixture of rum and water

Background imageGrog Collection: Menai Bridge with steamship

Menai Bridge with steamship
The steam ferryboat St. Seiriol passing under the Menai Bridge designed by Thomas Telford. The Menai Suspension Bridge, or Pont Grog y Borth in Welsh

Background imageGrog Collection: Captain Newcome is shaved roughly on the Equator in

Captain Newcome is shaved roughly on the Equator in
Captain Newcome is shaved roughly before being dunked in a tub of bilge water on the Equator. A sailor dressed as Neptune holds a trident and sits on a throne on a gun carriage

Background imageGrog Collection: Royal Naval officers riding pigs in saddles through

Royal Naval officers riding pigs in saddles through the market in Gibraltar. They knock over market stalls and sellers. Moors, Spanish and Jewish, scattering goods and wares. Market day - Gibraltar

Background imageGrog Collection: Johnny Newcome drinking grog in the cockpit with other

Johnny Newcome drinking grog in the cockpit with other middys (midshipmen), HMS Victory. Sextants, pistols and muskets hang from hooks on the walls, a tub of grog on the floor. The Cockpit

Background imageGrog Collection: Regency gentleman falling over a gate while two women watch

Regency gentleman falling over a gate while two women watch. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by John Augustus Atkinson from Illustrations of the Miseries of Human Life, William Miller, London, 1807

Background imageGrog Collection: HMS Marlborough - Serving out beer on Christmas Day

HMS Marlborough - Serving out beer on Christmas Day
HMS Marlborough - Serving out beer to the sailors on Christmas Day. HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill

Background imageGrog Collection: Christmas card to an Old Crony

Christmas card to an Old Crony, with hearty greetings. (NB screw refers to tobacco) Date: circa 1900s

Background imageGrog Collection: Russian sailors drinking grog rations in the Russian Navy

Russian sailors drinking grog rations in the Russian Navy Date: 1893

Background imageGrog Collection: Banquet aboard H. M.s Wellington

Banquet aboard H. M.s Wellington
Entertainment to Admiral Dundas, on board H.M.S Wellington of the Baltic Fleet

Background imageGrog Collection: Man & Woman Drunk 1773

Man & Woman Drunk 1773
A drunken woman makes an angry lunge for her partners jug of grog

Background imageGrog Collection: Edward Vernon / Smollett

Edward Vernon / Smollett
EDWARD VERNON English admiral; called Old Grog, he was the first to issue rum diluted with water, which came to be know as grog

Background imageGrog Collection: Daily Issue of Grog

Daily Issue of Grog
Royal Naval ratings form an orderly queue to receive their daily allowance of GROG - a mixture of rum and water


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