 | Standing in Priory Lane looking towards the Hanseatic warehouse, the depth of the jetty on the Valiant Sailor is quite obvious. So is the loving care the building has received. The inn has been a private house for some years now and the owners must be applauded for their hard work over time. "The Venerable, having been upwards of eighteen weeks at sea, and during a part of the time exposed to very boisterous weather, was in want of almost every description of stores. Others of the ships had also suffered by the recent gales of wind, and were short of provisions. Thus circumstanced, the admiral, on the 3rd of October, put into Yarmouth roads, to refit and revictual; leaving off the Dutch coast a small squadron of observation, under the orders of Captain Trollope, consisting of his own ship the Russel, the Adamant 50, Beaulieu and Circe frigates, and Martin sloop." |