Question

What is the Pride of Thames

Answer 1

The "Pride of the Thames looked like a "chunk of wood" recently dug up from somewhere and damaged in the process. Jerome thought it looked like some "Roman Relic", perhaps a coffin of some sort.

The Pride of the Thames is seem to be a old piece of wood recently excavated and damaged during the process of digging out. Jim regarded it as a relic of Roman times- perhaps the relic of a coffin. A geologist considered the boat as the fossil of a whale from pre-historic times.

The river is described very much like a person throughout the novel at times it is calm and tranquil and other times it is difficult and fussy the men develop a relationship with the drives Thames that fits into narrative much like an other character would

The pride of Thames is seem to be a old piece of chunk of wood recently dugged out and damaged during the process j regarded the relic of Roman times perhaps the relic of the coffin a geologist considered the boat as a fossil and the whales of pre historic time are the true pride of Thames river.