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Entered to take part
In Robert James Liguori
A noteworthy ship poetry Contest
Wednesday
27th October 2021


From Liverpool 
The Port of Empire

He came was born and wanted
away and out from that moment 
on

And at the tender age of 16
he enlisted in the Royal Navy

In search of adventure on the high sea

A good looking boy with a full head
of hair

Wanting to be anywhere elsewhere but home

Write and send postcards from every
port he docked

Assigned thereafter posted to Plymouth

To sail board the noteworthy ship

H.M.S Cavalier 

Gerard Vincent Flaherty

Rank Stocker Petty Officer

Set sail for the 4 corner of the earth

I've seen the pictures he later regaled
the tales with jolly gusto

And now to me as definitely was to him

That most noteworthy of Ship is 
currently dry docked in Chatham
Kent

Buy yet sadly he did not get to see 
for himself as taken some year's
earlier by cancer was his final fate
to be

Not so much a noble sailor's end
sinking beside his company selflessly
protecting saving other's lives

Terminating at Davy Jones locker
to sleep and rest peacefully aboard
a sea bed hammock taking in tots
of rum rations

So unfortunately it was up to i
my mother and sister to go and 
see it 

Not so much for ourselves but the
eye's of he and we're luckily enough
to be blessed welcomed to step onboard

I only wish my father had lived long
enough to witness it for himself

My mind boggles at the very thought
of just how much happiness it would
have brought him

And why of all the ship's in all the
world that have ever sailed

H.M.S Cavalier is the most titanic
noteworthy unparalleled Ship

My Father's Ship 
Heart and Soul

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