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This years Festival is timed to coincide with the International Year of the Sea and Nelson's death at the Battle of Trafalgar 200 years ago. |
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The festival is the PREMIER EVENT in the North of England. Over 200,000 people from as far a-field as Norway, Canada, Finland and America were thrilled with the FREE festival in
2003 |
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Why not come along and experience the best Regatta; Boat Show; Food Fair; Music Festival; Tall ships; Classic and historic ships; Aerial displays; Street theatre and fireworks?
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TALL SHIPS
Liverpool's flagship the Zebu and sail training ship, Jean de la Lune, Scotland's only working square-rigged tall ship, and the Kathleen & May will be thrilling
the crowds at the Whitehaven Maritime Festival. Visitors to the festival can go aboard these ships and experience the conditions that sailors were expected to endure in the past. The Zebu came to Whitehaven to take part in the last festival, choosing it
over Liverpool's own maritime event. Its success in the town convinced the crew to return to Whitehaven when it took part in a BBC film later in the year.
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Jean de la Lune, a 100ft French brigantine based on the west coast of Scotland, is coming for the festival on her farewell voyage before being sold. The owners were keen to take
part in the festival after reading about it here on the internet. |
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The Kathleen & May was launched in 1900, costing around £2,700 at a time when shipwrights earned the equivalent of £1.25 a week and was among the last four vessels on trade
routes in British and Irish waters. |
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Her home was the Port of Bideford in the West Country until her retirement in 1961. She was purchased by a private trust in October 1998 from Gloucester Docks and given a
£1million restoration. |
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UTTERLY BUTTERLY
The St. Ivel Utterly Butterly display team are Europe's only professional wing-walking display team, they will entertain the crowds with a combination of
the latest safety technology with the courage and daring of early aviators.
Daring pilots take the aircraft though entertaining and amazing aerobatics, travelling at up to 150mph. |
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| The wing-walkers brave wind speeds of up to 150mph, waving from the top wing as the 1940's Boeing Stearman biplanes roar through the skies. This brilliant act will leave you
breathless! |
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60th ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF WWII
Up to 1,000 Second World War veterans and ex-servicemen are to be invited to next year's Whitehaven Maritime Festival. Cumbria's
official commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War will be held on June 26 as part of the weekend-long festival.
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Plans are in hand to invite up to 1,000 veterans and more recent ex-servicemen to the event, where it is hoped that bands from the Royal Marines, Army and the Royal Air Force
will lead a veterans' parade through Whitehaven to the harbour area. The Kings Own Royal Border Regiment will exercise their Freedom of the Town. |
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| In addition, the Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane aircraft of the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight have been booked to provide a flypast over the parade. |
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There will be many other military attractions including the Red Arrows, a search and rescue helicopter and an RAF Fast Jet display over the weekend. |
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| The chairman of the working group for the veterans' parade, Tony Parrini, said every veteran and ex-serviceman who had contributed towards the various peace-keeping operations
and conflicts over the past 60 years would all have the opportunity to attend. All Royal British Legion branches and other ex-service organisations are being informed but any individual or group who would like to take part in the parade should contact
Tony Crane on 01539 737831 or acrane@britishlegion.org |
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