He renamed it The Brave Goose of Essex in honour of his girlfriend.Įventually, even nastier people than Palmer turned up in Lanzarote and he returned to Britain. Palmer allegedly never sailed in it due to acute seasickness, but it proved a valuable place to store all sorts of things.
This yacht - which was actually called the Brave Goose - ended up being taken over in lieu of debts by the British crime lord John ‘Goldfinger’ Palmer, the man who smelted the Brink’s-Mat gold along with motor racing enthusiast Kenny Noye.īy the time that he got hold of the Brave Goose, Palmer had set himself up as the crime king of Lanzarote, with a massive income from dodgy timeshares, protection money, cocaine, gun running, bars and casinos. However, a bit of reading-up has revealed a connection to another interest of mine, the Brink’s-Mat bullion robbery.Ī small number of my slot cars are related to the biggest bullion heist in British history, but there was an episode of The Return of the Saint that was built around discovering bullion hidden in the South of France, known only to the owner of a yacht called the Brave Goose. Always loved that car from when I had the Corgi one as a child - although I don’t remember ever watching the show.
