Originally Posted by
Tankertrashnav
A serious point arises from a fairly trivial and rather silly matter here. In recent years some quite famous people have being going to prison on the strength of what people "distinctly remember" about events 30, 40 50 years ago. People's memories are notoriously faulty (I know mine is) as is jayteeto's apparently!
..which is precisely why, before asserting that Staines, Bates and Roger were shipmates of Captain Pugwash, I asked Mr Google for an opinion. He noted, as others have done above, that there were no such characters on Cap'n P's foredeck. And that in fact, after The Sunday Correspondent (and The Guardian) claimed otherwise, author John Ryan successfully sued both papers.