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1. Royal Navy mine hunter HMS Brocklesby arrived at King's Lynn on Friday 9th November 2007 to support the town's annual Remembrance Day commemorations to Remember Fallen Heroes.
2. H M S Cottesmore. Sunday 18th September 2005 Lynn's TS Vancover Sea Cadets visit.
3. Kieler Hansekogge Boal Quay, King's Lynn,7th August 2004.
4. De Haviland Mosquito NS 988 . Parts recovered from Wash - 22nd July 2004.
5. Mosquito memorial dedication at the ATC HQ in Loke Road, King's Lynn - 2nd January 2012.
6. Dutch training Schooner DE Tukker, the 100ft ship had to make an unscheduled call at the port of King's Lynn, on 31st May 2004.n
7. A tug from Hamburg brought the large barge into the Port of Lynn. and loaded ABP's King's Lynn largest crane a Liebherr LHM1120
8. TS Royalist Visiting the Port of Lynn Oct/Nov 1994.
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22nd July 2004 - De Haviland Mosquito NS 988 Parts recovered from Wash
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Eight Photographs to view: Rear section of Pilots seat with some of the leather padding still in position Image, Mark Tilbury (Marine Salvage Team) talks to the Media, Lifting the Prop ashore, Sue Raftree from the RAF Casualty Section.
Parts from Mosquito have now been recovered from the Wash. The King's Lynn Conservancy Board's "St Edmund" tug was used to recover parts of the plane. The "St Edmund" transported the plane remains to the Alexandra Dock yesterday evening and today they were transferred to lorry for transport to RAF Marham, Part of one of the two Merlin Engines - Engine being lifted from St Edmund
Two airmen died when their plane plunged into the Wash during air-to-air mission off the coast at about 3pm on March 20, 1945 almost 60 years ago. Flight Lt Gabriel Hitch Ellis, from Norwich, and Sgt William Patrick Reidy, from Bournemouth, were on board the Mosquito just a few months before the end of the second world war when it got into difficulties and crashed into the sea near King's Lynn.
The recovery was carried out by a team made up of members of the RAF and the Royal Navy, and was headed by the Salvage and Marine Operations Unit based at Falmouth in Cornwall.
The twin-engined 400mph fighter-bomber will be examined by experts, who may at last be able to unlock the mystery of what went wrong as the two men flew on their final mission.
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Above Left to Right: David Twidle, Assistant to Group Chief Executive (retired 2008) Right John Copping Port Director ABP Short Sea Ports. (retired September 2005)
Monday 2nd January 2012 - Mosquito memorial dedication - at the ATC HQ in Loke Road, King's Lynn.
42F Memorial Dedication was held at their Headquarters, Loke Road, King's Lynn, PE30 2BP
Research into the history of our Squadron of a 70th Anniversary project produces, from our wealth of archive material, wartime newspaper reports of the deaths, or missing in action, of a number of young men. Further investigation of the original cadet lists 1939 - 1946 revealed that these cuttings referred to earlier members of 42 Founder (King's Lynn) Sqn who had on reaching age joined the Services.
Once it was known that these young men, only a year or two older than our current cadets, had lost their lives it was a natural decision to work towards the lives it was a natural decision to work towards the construction of a lasting memorial in their memory.
We were donated an aircraft propeller blade by the Fenland Aviation Museum and this, after partial restoration, has become the centre piece of 42F's memorial to its Fallen.
This propeller blade, recovered from the wash in 2004 with other wreckage, is from RAF Mosquito FB MkV1 NS998 of n85 Squadron, the crew of which we also honoured to reminder on this memorial.
Squadron Honours Its Own - Report from Mike Lister Sqn MCO 42F (King's Lynn) Sqn - N&S Wg
At 11am on 2nd January the generations came together at the HQ of 42F (King's Lynn) Sqn for the dedication of a memorial to its own wartime "Fallen".
Exactly 73 years earlier on 2nd January 1939 42 (Founder) Squadron was born into the Air Defence Cadet Corps (ADCC), later to become the ATC. The ADCC and ATC trained thousands of young men in preparation for the services and it was a natural progression that most went on to join the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, although others were conscripted into the Army and Naval services
Having discovered that a number of its members had paid the ultimate sacrifice during WWII the squadron embarked upon a mission to erect a lasting memorial to their memory. With the most fantastic support of local clubs, businesses, groups and individuals who supported the project with donations, prizes and fund-raising the memorial was constructed by the cadets under the leadership of Michael Duncalf the father of two cadets and a keen supporter of the squadron.
The centre piece of the memorial is a propeller blade from a WWII Mosquito aircraft that crashed into The Wash in 1945. It was donated by the Fenland & West Norfolk Aviation Museum whose members assisted in its recovery in 2004. The memorial also honours the two crewmembers of the aircraft whose remains were also recovered at that time.
The short, but moving, dedication service was conducted by the Norfolk and Suffolk Wing Chaplain, Canon Reverend Ron Tuck and the Squadron Padre Reverend Corin Child. CWO Ed Barrett read out the names of the fifteen (known) members killed after which wartime cadet Lionel Jackson read the "Ode of Remembrance". After the "Last Post" Silence and "Reveille" Cdt Sgt Glencross read the Kohima Epitaph. Following the blessing of the memorial, a winter wreath, studded with poppies and rosemary for remembrance, was laid by Geoff Bullen the squadron's first enrolled cadet in 1939.(see photo 12/047202 & 205)
At the conclusion of the ceremony all present took the chance to chat and reminisce whilst enjoying a buffet lunch.
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31st May 2004
Dutch training schooner DE Tukker
The 100ft Dutch training schooner DE Tukker had to make an unscheduled call at the port of King's Lynn on Friday when it developed engine problems. Engineers from Prior Diesel Ltd worked through the bank holiday weekend to complete the repairs.
DE Tukker above Left to right 04/012057, 04/012081, 04/012086,
6th July 2003
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A tug from Hamburg brought the large barge into the Port of Lynn and loaded ABP's King's Lynn largest crane a Liebherr LHM1120. ABP is transfering this from King's Lynn Docks to ABP's Newport dock by barge today. The 183-tonne crane drove on to the barge in the Bentinck Dock on Thursday.
The LHM1120 was purchased in 1992 at a cost of £1 million as part of the Riverside Berth development and was first used in September 1992. It was the first of its type in the UK. It has a lifting capacity of 35 tonnes. Like the new crane it was built in Neuzing in Austria. It was the first fully computerised crane at the Port.
ABP King's Lynn recently purchased a new LHM70 crane as its replacement
06.07.03 Photo Left DSC6206, Middle DSC6202 Right DSC6210 The 183-tonne crane drove on to the barge in the Bentinck Dock on Friday- The barge moving through the Berntick Passage into the Alexandra Dock
06.07.03 Photo DSC6223 - Crane leaving the Dock bound for ABP Newport.
06.07.03 Photo DSC6242 Tug "CUMBRAE" towing Barge from King's Lynn today
06.07.03 Photo DSC6252 - Crane & three Grabs leaving King's Lynn today
TS Royalist Visiting the Port of Lynn Oct/Nov 1994 Photo Ref (left to right) 94/932/25 - 94_932_26 - 94_932_23
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