Black Tot Day, continued…
Well, we raised a toast to Black Tot Day here in the Catskills, with a White Ensign flying from the porch, and heard news of others who did the same – any excuse to drink rum I suppose!
Charles Tobias of Pussers passed on the following message which originally had a very nice photo, but the technology for uploading photos defeated me!
The 40th anniversary of Black Tot day was celebrated/commiserated this Saturday and to mark the occasion there was a Pusser’s Rum ceremony outside HMS Victory in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard at Navy Days.
The Exmouth Shanty Men and a re-enactment crew s a ng songs and recreate d the drawing of the last tot. There were big crowds and lots of press so your accounts may have picked up on it.
Here’s a link to short video of the event to Portsmouth TV and also, an interview I gave to Sir Robin Knox-Johnston on BBC Portsmouth .
TV Clip – http://www.portsmouthnews.tv/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1850:40th-anniversary-of-rns-black-tot-day&catid=34:front-page-news
Radio Interview 17min 30sec- http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p0090186
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