Bovril Boats

[Tony Morcom]

sounds to me like those boats were very aptly named! As for bovril with milk the very thought beggars belief

[Lou Barron]

hi jim and just as i and my mates use to go swimmiing the mersey mind you in them days the river was not the cleanest of water ways the last time i saw the river in 1993 it looked a lot cleaner its like the otago harbour years ago itbwas not very clean but now its a lot cleaner could it be the lack of shipping

[Neil Morton]

I think Bovril was what we used to serve as beef tea to the bloods at 1100 hours, it came in an urn,(not a greek one) in the public rooms.But getting back to the thread I have never heard of such a vessel; thanks for enilightening me. As a kid I used to swim in the Thames halfway between Kingston and Hampton Court Bridge on most summer Sundays having ridden there on my push bike. The depths were inpenetrable and I used to come out a strange shade of yellow.Maybe a Bovril boat had passed by,(or several).

[happy daze john in oz]

Sorry to show my ignorance, but what the he** were the Bovril boats????? Albi.

Like the OXO boats but not so square????? similar in shape to the Marmite ones!