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Rated by Participant: 4E615E35EA3A9663FA255E6F73ACB7947E81AE8D0EF84566AA6457A316EFCC6F
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There was never any reference to Rodger the Cabin Boy or Master Bates or Seaman Staines. This was based on an incorrect article in the Guardian newspaper. The writer of Captain Pugwash won libel damages from two newspapers in 1991 which https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/captain-pugwash-double-meanings/ https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/captain-pugwash-creator-traumatised-urban-5896636 http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2009/07/john-ryan-and-captain-pugwash.html
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