WHISKY GALORE SS POLITICIAN CALVAY MIST 5 YEAR OLD 1940'S STYLE 70CL SCOTCH WHI

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WHISKY GALORE SS POLITICIAN CALVAY MIST 5 YEAR OLD 1940'S STYLE 70CL SCOTCH WHISKY - Collectors Edition - Good Condition New Item. If you are interested in this, you may also be interested in our other Special Offers via our Newsletter - I specialise in Liqueurs and Collectable Whiskies. Copy the link below into your Browser and then www.Calvay Mist replicates the look and style of the whisky which was the cargo on the S.S. Politician. This is the famous 'Whisky Galore' ship that ran aground on the Outer Hebrides during the Second World War. Here is an opportunity to savour a 1940's whisky at a reasonable cost.Not just a fine whisky.....but a legend...this is the story.On the 3rd February 1941 the freighter SS Politician sailed from Liverpool, England for Jamaica via New Orleans. Along with fur coats, Jamaican currency and material from the British War Office, 21,000 cases of Scotch Whisky nestled in her cargo holds. Her route took her north to Scotland and there, two days out of Liverpool, her voyage ended. As she sailed into the Sound of Eriskay among the remote islands of the Outer Hebrides, the ‘Polly’ran aground on Calvay Island. When the inhabitants of the neighbouring small islands of Barra, Eriskay and South Uist discovered the Politician’s cargo included whisky, they didn’t miss theiropportunity. The islanders proceeded read more

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