 This was repeated in subsequent seasons on the H.M.S.President, a ship moored on the River Thames that doubled as the Festival Club for the Covent Garden Festival (Julia Goss played Little Buttercup), and in 2002 on a different cruise ship with both "Pinafore" and "Mikado".In the energetic opening scene of "Pinafore", the company erects the H.M.S.