Fire-boat Massey Shaw

The boat in named after the founder of the London Fire Brigade, who is referred to in Gilbert & Sullivan's Iolanthe:

Oh, Captain Shaw
Type of true love kept under,
Could thy brigade
With cold cascade
Quench my true love, I wonder.

Massey Shaw was in the front row of the audience at the opera's first performance.

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PHOTO © Mike Stevens, 1996