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A BUSY TYNE IN PLYMOUTH WATERS

HMS Tyne left Portsmouth 18 hours ago and in Plymouth today carrying on with the ship’s ‘regeneration’ after a successful (BOST) Basic Offshore Safety Training

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CELEBRATING TINSIDE LIDO CAMPAIGN

Today, marks the 25th anniversary of the campaign that saved Tinside Lido from demolition in the 1990s. On the (9th June, 1998) award-winning and community

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THE SPIRIT OF D-DAY REMEMBERED

Westward Shipping News team and Dorcas Media are proud to be supporting World War Two veterans attending the annual Normandy Memorial Service in France this

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TRINITY HOUSE FLAGSHIP THE PATRICIA

THV PATRICIA, a Buoy-Laying ship that undertakes aid to navigation maintenance, towing, wreck location and marking – dropped its anchor in the Sound this afternoon.

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OCEAN MAJESTY ARRIVES IN PLYMOUTH

Plymouth plays host to the latest cruise liner to visit the city MV Ocean Majesty that has dropped its anchor near the Breakwater today. The

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HMS VICTORIOUS ARRIVES FOR HER REFIT

Heavy security and a ghost inlet of no shipping or leisure craft greeted the rare sighting of one of Britain’s most powerful warships HMS Victorious

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TALL SHIP GUNILLA BACK IN PLYMOUTH

In she blows, the Gunilla, and one of the largest sailing ships of Sweden is back in Plymouth again. The three masted barque ship was

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YONDERBERRY JETTY, A FIRST FOR THE SOMME

The French tanker and Command Ship the FS Somme was spotted heading out of Plymouth Sound this morning with a British Merlin helicopter overhead. The