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The Ship, Rotherhithe, SE16

39-47 St Marychurch Street
SE16
SE16 4JE

Phone: 02072374103

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Moby Duck left this review about The Ship

A sturdy looking Youngs pub with a U shaped room wrapped around the horseshoe bar. There is unsurprisingly, given the pubs name, a nautical theme with pictures and models od sailing ships mounted on and around the walls. Despite boasting six handpumps only two were on with the expected Youngs London Original and the nowadays ubiquitous Timothy Taylor Landlord, the keg available was the usual stuff.
A reasonable pub but no beer pull for me to return in a hurry.

On 4^th June 2025 - rating: 6
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Tris C left this review about The Ship

Originally known as the Ship & Bells, this dates from 1790 and is clearly an interwar year’s pub, currently part of the Ram pen.
With a modern boarded floor, the interior is relatively plain, with walls with black Anaglypta to the dado, then a combination of white painted bare brick, distressed white planking – looking a bit nautical – and brick red paintwork, with a white ceiling on high. Lighting is conventional, with metal shades over the horseshoe shaped bar, with an attractive frontage, then brassy sconces. There’s an upright piano and – worryingly – toys for potential children, thankfully absent at the time of my arrival. Thereafter, there’s an attractive 1930s’ fireplace, unused, then décor in the form of many ship images and seafaring iconography, such as model ships and lifebuoys. Furniture is conventional and customers seemed to be young professional incomers, all to an adult orientated rock soundtrack.
The ale front revealed one unused pump, then Young’s Original and Special at £2.50 a half on good form and served by another suspicious barmaid.
This isn’t a bad pub, better than the Brunel, but holed below the waterline by the Mayflower.

On 27^th April 2022 - rating: 5
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Steve of N21 left this review about The Ship

Made a visit to this one on a cold pre 2020 lockdown II October afternoon whilst on route to the nearby Mayflower and found it virtually unchanged from Malden mans review from six years ago. Nothing really special in this one room pub, but it is very comfortable and still has the feeling of an old school community local. Two of the pumps in operation and table service only in these covid pandemic times, but good service levels from the serving barmaid and our halves of Youngs Bitter and Special were in decent nick. It may not have the interior charm of its two nearby neighbours but this is a solid enough locals pub and you could do a lot worse.

On 20^th November 2020 - rating: 6
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