Men for the Fleet! Crooked Billet Inn 2) and Wolfgang Overath bowed

2) and Wolfgang Overath bowed in despair

This relates to the recently announced details of the Parcel Post whereby the Post Office would handle parcels under a fixed weight for a fixed charge

29th January 1972

with boats on the water in the foreground

'View from above Wandsworth

Men for the Fleet! Crooked Billet Inn 2) and Wolfgang Overath bowed'Men for the Fleet!', 1859. In May 1959, Prince Alfred, Queen Victoria's second son, was appointed aboard HMS 'Euryalus'. Although he is depicted as a child in this cartoon, he would have been about 15 years old at the time of his appointment. From Punch, or the London Charivari, May 14, 1859.