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Old 15-11-2006, 02:50 PM
JimmyH155
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Capt'n Cook

Yes, Steven, my son went to Greenwich last year and brought me back a really interesting book on those clocks. Apparently what sparked off the Government's big prize was a terrible tragedy where a British admiral in charge of a fleet of men -o -war ran the whole fleet onto rocks near the Scilly Isles off the Cornish coast all because they thought they were nowhere near the Scilly Isles. Hundreds of sailors lost their lives
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