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2 unusual facts about TS Mercury


TS Mercury

In June 1898 Beatrice Holme-Sumner married C. B. Fry, the great England cricketer and all-round sportsman, and in 1908, after the death of Hoare, Fry became the Mercury's Captain-Superintendent.

The Training Ship Mercury, or the TS Mercury, was a shore-based naval training establishment at Hamble in Hampshire.


GNR Stirling 4-2-2

This engine was later preserved by Mr Hoare in the Boys Reading Room at the Training Ship Mercury at Hamble.


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