A ghostly question!

[Derrick Stephenson]

Allegedly heard at a German surrender over 300 years after it's owners' death.
What is it, where was it heard, and where is it?
Derrick.

[Bombardier]

Drakes Drum.
On the Royal Oak
Buckland Abbey near Plymouth
Nice one derrick ;)


"Take my drum to England, hang it by the shore,
And strike it when your powder's running low;
If the Dons sight Devon, I'll quit the port of
heaven, and drum them up the channel as we
drummed them long ago."

Sir Henry John Newbolt 1862-1938

[Zofo]

You need to be more sneaky Derrick! You need I think to have a quiz question so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel!
Come to thing of it, where did that quote come from?

[Bombardier]

blackadder ?

[Zofo]

Yup, I think B'Adder 2 :lol:

[Derrick Stephenson]

Yea, it was Drake's Drum.
But isn't it eerie that this has never been solved, all personnel accounted for, yet the Drum sounded until the representative for the German Fleet signed the surrender, then it stopped. Weird!!!
Derrick.