Collingwood...

...keeping guard on the Tyne. 
A local lad, he was at Trafalgar with Nelson, and sounds a thoroughly good chap!

More info here, (Thanks Wiki )
Sailor Robert Hay who served with Collingwood wrote that: "He and his dog Bounce were known to every member of the crew. How attentive he was to the health and comfort and happiness of his crew! A man who could not be happy under him, could have been happy nowhere; a look of displeasure from him was as bad as a dozen at the gangway from another man".


A lovely morning for a walk along the front, though the wind was a tad chilly! Took Auntie Joyce shopping this afternoon - a successful outing all round!