QUIRKY WORLD ... Our look at some of the world’s stranger stories
The exhausted bird was wrongly named Paul by crew members when she landed on the deck of HMS Somerset. Since then she has been fed and watered and received much attention from the 185 men and women on board.
Leading seaman William Hughes, an ex-pigeon fancier, caught the bird, checked it over, and discovered that it was in fact female. He said: “It was a stroke of luck that Paul found Somerset. She will certainly have a few sea stories to tell her fellow pigeons.”
