Other items of interest

Other items of interest include the original ornate brass binnacle of the Schooner/Ketch the Ocean Pearl. This is now the centre piece of 'The Captain's Cabin'. She was built in Scotland in 1868 and plied between Kilmore Quay and Wales with coal and general cargo until she was broken up in 1923.

The binnacle suspended from the ceiling in the front Pub is from the trawler Johnny K which was wrecked in the atrocious storm which overwhelmed the Quay in December 1989.

Above: Ornate brass binnacle of the Schooner/Ketch the Ocean Pearl.

The two upright oak beams on each side of the fireplace were used as legs to support the French trawler Notre Dame de Lauret (owned by Billy Burrell), in an upright position at low water.

The upright binnacle in the Parlour is a working precision nautical instrument. It was made by Cooke & Co of Hull who today still manufacture marine instruments and who also made the compass card in the Dry Card Compass in the front bar.

Behind the bar and adjacent to the bell of the Lady Patricia, you will see a vertical brass instrument which is a Gun Marine Barometer. This instrument was designed by Admiral Fitzroy in 1860 to withstand the shock of a Naval ship's guns. The new gun Barometer was tested by being subjected to the concussion produced by firing a 68 pounder gun with shot and a 16lb charge of powder. The tests proved satisfactory at a distance of only 3 ft6 ins from the axis of the gun. This particular instrument was made from the workshop of Negretti and Zambra, London, est. 1864.

For your added pleasure we have created an outside Beer Garden with a difference - The Idaho Promenade. The Mast and Boom were discarded from local trawlers to make way for their modern equivalent in steel. We hope you like their new home! One of those trawlers - The Osprey - was also lost in the storm of December 1989.