The Ship Inn, Mousehole - pub details

Ship Inn
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Address: South Cliff, Mousehole, Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 6QX [map] [gmap]

Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 6471) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras

Nearest train station Penzance (2.9 miles)

Brewery: St. Austell Brewery Co.

Pub facilities/features:
Cask Marque accreditation

  • Food served, Real ale
  • Accommodation available

Pub suggested by Andrew on 29 Jan 2004

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> Current user rating: 7.2/10 (rated by 37 users)
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other pubs nearby:

Old Coastguard Hotel, Mousehole (0.1 miles), Kings Arms, Paul (0.5 miles), Fishermans Arms, Newlyn (1.3 miles), Red Lion Inn, Penzance (1.3 miles), Star Inn, Penzance (1.6 miles) - see more nearby pubs

 

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I liked it.

Friendly, decent enough food and excellent beer from the St.Austell brewery.


EdBeery - 2 Sep 2011 10:31
Here is my pennyworth, visited this pub a few times over the years when visiting friends nearby (Devonian immigrants!). Recent visit showed that the pub isnt really worth the effort to be honest unless you are a holiday maker staying in the village. Just to fuel the 'locals' debate, as a Hampshire Hog my kids will have to leave their village too but in my experience Paris_H is correct, locals in my village sold out and incommers doubled the size and values! It isnt a 'poor old Cornwall' problem most rural/coastal villages have suffered the same fate throughout the south.
odbod - 1 Nov 2010 13:58
I have to disagrre with Cornish Blonde and mim. Locals can't complain about incomers causing high property prices, forcing locals out of the property market, when it was the LOCALS who took the money by selling houses to incomers at high prices in the first place.

I also agree with John Bonser, the lack of competition means that the Ship does'nt have to try hard, and from my experience they hardly try at all, just take the money from visitors from the more affluent parts of the counrty.

I see a patetrn emerging mim.
Paris_Hilton - 1 Nov 2010 12:35
Apart from agreeing with mim and wishing to point out to halfbee that actually, you don't know what you're talking out (like me to put it in Cornish perhaps or would that perplex you even more? Oh and by the way, tourism actually accounts for 25% of Cornwall's GDP as opposed to 99% but let's not split hairs over percentage eh), I just wanted to post an up-to-date, truthful account of The Ship Inn, from a local perspective. I come from Newlyn so I know The Ship Inn very well, but I have to say that the service and food have changed from being very good to frankly appalling.

We visited for lunch on Saturday and were served lousy food, the staff were miserable as sin and my partner found the floor of the gents' toilets to be soaked in urine from the Friday night before, which they obviously hadn't bothered to clean.

If any tourists are reading this and wondering if The Ship might be a nice place to stay whilst in Penwith, take some advice from a local, DON'T. Don't stay there and don't eat there, for your own sake.
cornishblonde84 - 1 Nov 2010 10:32
On the edge of the attractive fishing harbour of Mousehole - pronounced "muzzle" apparently - is The Ship Inn, seemingly the only pub in this small contact Cornish coastal village.

Looking at the pub across the harbour, the granite exterior reminds me very much of the type of pub you might come across in the North Yorks Moors, or, alternatively, a West Yorkshire town like Ilkley or Otley.

On the wall outside the pub, a plaque commemorates the landlord, who was part of the crew of the Solomon Browne lifeboat which perished with the loss of all lives in December 1981 - The Penlee disaster, as it's better known as.

Inside is the trademark flagstoned floor and black beams and collection of nautical memorabilia, including, most notably, various pictures of The Torrey Canyon, which ran aground in the area on Seven Stones Reef in March 1967. A cosier room on the left is carpeted, with comfortable bench seating around the walls and a copper bar top. There's a separate restaurant area on the right.

Reflecting the fact that the pub needs to get customers in after the visitors have departed for the day ( and there seems to be precious little in the way of B & B's for those wishing to stay overnight ), there's a couple of fruit machines and TV screens for Sky Sports, but, thankfully, these weren't on during my recent lunchtime visit.

Plastic glasses are available should anyone wish to drink outside at the front on the narrow road, which, perhaps surprisingly, is not closed to traffic, although the frequent reversing to allow cars coming the other way to pass, makes for slow progress. There's a small sun terrace at the back up a flight of stairs, but this has no sea view and is of limited appeal.

It's a St Austell's Brewery pub and, on my recent lunchtime visit, beers on were Tinners, Proper Job, Tribute and HSD. The Tinners - £ 2.60p - was fine.

Given its location, this pub probably doesn't have to make too much effort to get people in, but I thought this pub came up to the mark in all areas


JohnBonser - 24 Sep 2010 13:20

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