User:Southsearanger/Portsmouth Rowing Club

Portsmouth Rowing Club Founded in 1269 by Daniel Ergnut-Roberts (III), a Nepalese monk, whilst on a soul searching trip from Brighton to Bognor Regis, the Portsmouth Rowing Club was the first club to advance traditional river rowing (then used as a form of transport) into a sport. Running on a low budget, armed with no more than 3 pieces of drift wood, 6 nails and a rolled up poster of Madonna, who was just a teenager at the time, Ergnut-Roberts created his first sculling boat, which he later went on to win major events such as Henley Royal Regatta in. With ever growing interest in the sport and club, Ergnut-Roberts began to attract attention of large companies, which helped fund the running of Portsmouth Rowing Club. By the time of his death in 1302, the club had accumulated a total of 120 male and female members. For the next 5-6 Centuries which followed, the club had achieved many successes, producing many incredible athletes and Olympians. However, with the heightening political tensions and the resulting Seconds World War which followed, the boat club was destroyed by a stray atomic bomb. Tragically the bomb hit at a peak training time, and all the members and possessions of the club were obliterated. The radiation caused by the atomic bomb meant that the area was not safe to enter for the best part of 50 years(the club was later re-established in 2009, which more detail will be revealed about shortly. Yet, one species still remained living in the dull, lifeless, harsh, swampy environment, now commonly known as Langstone Harbour. He was called Luke 'Kipper' M. Gimpington.