Spelade
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It's New Year's Eve 1931 and the crew of the Flamborough lifeboat is called out just before midnight.
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Upside down ships and Folkestone door numbers: a brief selection of some notable mirages.
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In 1938 keeper Jack Cross sailed out to the Wyre lighthouse off the coast of Fleetwood in Lancashire for his 11th successive lighthouse Christmas.
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In 1954 44-year-old boilermaker Ted May set out to swim the Channel without a pilot boat - or any practical support at all. It was supposed to change his life. It was incredibly dangerous.