Bob Stewart and Mick Powley, joint landlord with his wife Lisa of The Swan in West Wickham, climbed aboard HMS St Albans from a pilot vessel off Gravesend on 26 November. Mick and Bob joined the warship, a Type 23 Frigate, as it approached the Pool of London with good reason. Mick and Lisa Powley's son, Jimmy, is a sailor aboard HMS St Albans and was prevciously a student at Langley Park Boys School, where Bob also has two children. The above photograph shows Mick and Jimmy Powley aboard HMS St Albans.