Service StatusBar1861 - available onboard
Unwind at Bar1861, named after the year Red Funnel was founded. Bar1861 can be found onboard Red Funnel's vehicle ferries and stocks a wide range of bottled and draft beers, wines and spirits. Click here for more about Red Funnel's history.
Other famous events in 1861
- Lincoln was elected President in the United States
- Start of the American Civil War
- The British Empire establishes bases in Lagos to stop the slave trade
- HMS Warrior, the world's first ocean-going (all) iron-hulled armored battleship, is completed and commissioned
- Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia dies and is succeeded by Wilhelm I
- Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, died of typhoid fever at Windsor Castle
- Construction of the Albert Hall began in Prince Albert's memory
- Mrs Beeton wrote her famous book about household management
- Frederick Walton invented linoleum
- Daily weather forecasts began
Locations:
- MV Red Falcon
- MV Red Osprey
- MV Red Eagle
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