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Things seen – October 2011

The Villandry is captured on Youtube in the 1960s in these timeless home movie reels – she is seen at Newhaven here and here and at Dieppe here. The ship…

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The Vortigern – 40 years ago

March 5, 1969 was launching day for British Rail’s Vortigern at Swan Hunters’ Tyneside Neptune yard. The ship would go on to have a succesful UK career of 19 years…

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year & Welcome to 2009! With special reference to the website this blog is supposed to support, I suppose I should mention that this is the 40th year…

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