Neriah
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 Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:09 am Post subject: Bottle from Whisky Galore! wreck fetches £2,200 |
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A bottle of whisky recovered from the wreck of a ship that inspired the film
Whisky Galore! was sold at auction for £2,200 to a teenager fascinated by
its story. The bottle of Ballantine Scotch was one of about 240,000 that
sank with the SS Politician in the Outer Hebrides in 1941. For weeks the
islanders celebrated on the spirits they had looted from the wreck, hiding
the bottles from government officials. The incident inspired a novel by
Compton Mackenzie and the 1949 Ealing comedy film. The bottle was sold at
Gorringes auctioneers in Lewes, East Sussex, to the family of Tam Burt, an
18-year-old student, from Dollar, Clackmannanshire. He said: “I like to
drink whisky but this one will stay untouched.”
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