Australian Naval History on 10 April 1982

Workers at the Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle left a bottle of 6 year old MacNaughton Canadian Whiskey wrapped in pipe insulation in the forward starboard leg of the main mast of HMAS Sydney IV while she was under construction. It remained undetected throughout the ship’s service in the Royal Australian Navy with Sydney IV being decommissioned in November 2015. In 2017 a former work at the Todd Shipyard alerted staff at the Birdon Company in Henderson who located the, now 41 year old, Whiskey while they were scrapping the ship.