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unusual facts about rowing boat



Grace Darling

She and her father William determined that the weather was too rough for the lifeboat to put out from Seahouses (then North Sunderland), so they took a rowing boat (a 21 ft, 4-man Northumberland coble) across to the survivors, taking a long route that kept to the lee side of the islands, a distance of nearly a mile.


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Gurrane National School

he was arrested after the Crossbarry Ambush and imprisoned on Spike Island, from where he escaped in a rowing boat in 1921.

Nene Park, Peterborough

Another lake houses a pedaloe and rowing boat hire attraction while the third lake contains moorings for boats and has access to the River Nene.

Puckaster

Seeing the fleet passing offshore he literally ran away to sea, down Puckaster Lane and into a rowing boat, later distinguishing himself, especially at the Battle of Vigo Bay in 1702 and returning to beecome a local Member of Parliament.

Through Hell and High Water

Five half-hour morning programmes (9.30–10am) on BBC1 followed James Cracknell (Olympic rower) and Ben Fogle (television presenter) in their attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean in "Spirit of EDF Energy", a 24-foot rowing boat, with a half-hour summary programme during the evening of the final day on BBC2.