Ben Flynn told us of his time at the Baltic fleet - "I used to work there in the mid seventies. When I started there were all
these chains in the cellar and these tunnels underground. There were rumours about the cellars being used to chain up unfortunates who were shanghaied and
taken onto the ships in the nearby docks. And more rumours that Pirates had used the tunnels to smuggle things into the country. But we never did find out
what the chains were actually used for!"
"When there was a high tide – the cellar sometimes flooded! We had to have all planks and barriers in the way
down there, and it must have filled with water about twice a year before we got it blocked off in the end."
Now there is a microbrewery in the Baltic
Fleet basement.
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