Big price for wee dram.A BOTTLE of whisky recovered from the wreck of a cargo ship which inspired the film Whisky Galore! could fetch more than pounds 1,500, auctioneers have said. It was one of around 240,000 bottles of whisky which went down with the SS Politician The SS Politician was an 8000-tonne cargo ship, owned by T & J Harrison of Liverpool which left Liverpool on 3 February 1941, bound for Kingston in Jamaica and New Orleans. after it ran aground a·ground adv. & adj. 1. Onto or on a shore, reef, or the bottom of a body of water: a ship that ran aground; a ship aground offshore. 2. off Eriskay, in the Outer Hebrides, in 1941. For weeks, the Scottish islanders celebrated on whisky they had looted from the wreck. The sinking of the SS Politician inspired the 1949 Ealing comedy film, Whisky Galore! |
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