THE Barrow Savoyards were all set to launch their shipshape and Bristol-fashion production of HMS Pineaford at the Coronation hall in 1990. David Marcus directed the offering of Gillbert and Sullivan and played First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Joseph Porter KCB. “Pineaford is a skit at the British class structure” he said. “We will be stressing the point that he got his job due to his rise through the civil service and knows nothing whatever about the sea. “We shall be getting a lot of fun out of this.” The show began at 7:30pm and would run nightly that week up until the Saturday.