Our Patch april 2015
LOOKING
BACK
HMS Stork was
moored off
Upper Mall in
Hammersmith
to train young
boys to work at sea
THE STORK
H A MM E R S MIT H
O
n Sunday, March 30,
1913, thousands of
spectators lined the
Thames to watch the
stately progress of
HMS Stork as she was
towed by two tugs up the river from
Deptford to a permanent mooring off
Upper Mall, Hammersmith.
The iron framed, timber clad,
450- ton Stork, built at Poplar, was
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