Rum Locker Candle Lantern

A classic simple style of lantern that would most likely have been used aboard many ships in lower lockers and ships holds.

 

The Rum Locker was just such a place. A small hold in the lower part of the ship with no windows or portholes where the rum was stored under lock and key, of course.

 

Our Rum Locker Candle Lantern of Lamp is made of sheet iron with an antique brown finish and heavy clear coat to inhibit rust.  Sides have a distinct lattice work instead of fragile glass.  Ships with one tea light candle, ready to use.

 

You may recall from the 2nd Pirates movie that Jack Sparrow had to carry a lamp with him down to the Rum Locker.  It was there  that he met Bootstrap Bill who had been sent by Davie Jones to inform Jack that his time was up.

 

Item: IR15302 - Approx. 11 inches tall, with the handle down.

Electric Light Kit.

We can also install an electric light kit for you (shown at left) if you do not wish to burn oil in your lamp.   Price: 9.95

 

 

Price: $14.95

 


 

Some history about the rum.

Rum and the sea are inseparable, and no rum is more akin to the sea and the sailor than Pusser's Rum–the Original Navy Rum. For more than 300 years, from the earliest days of wooden ships and iron men, sailors of Great Britain's Royal Navy were issued a daily ration–or "tot"–of rum by the ship's "Purser" (corrupted by the sailors to Pusser's). Prior to 1740, the men's daily tot of Pusser's Rum was a pint a day, which they drank neat, that is without water!  - See: (and maybe even Buy some at:) http://www.pussers.com/

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of
rum.

"Sea Shanty" from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island (1883)

 

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Rum Locker Candle Lantern