Date (happened)
between 1905 and 1923 (probable)
"When I was a boy", told in Test Yourselves (nid 1466)
Told / reported
  • 23 June 1969 (refuted)
    Test Yourselves (nid 1466), telling 1466-7, told 1969-06-23
  • 23 June 1969 (refuted)
    Test Yourselves (nid 1466), telling 1466-7, told 1969-06-23
  • 18 November 1968 (probable)
    nid 1466 surviving delivery claim after refutation. All claims: 1969-6-23 refuted; 1968-11-18 probable (preferred)
Persons
Neville's father
Retelling his boyhood: while others heard only a disturbance when the ship blasted for its captain, he lay dreaming himself aboard, knowing his father and the captain were on the veranda below getting drunk, and he still loves the peculiar odor of a ship.