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Author: pblagys

Posted on January 31, 2019February 1, 2019 by pblagys

“Cooper Point” to be Created in the Falklands

The Charles Cooper was an amazing wooden sailing ship built at the Hall Shipyard in Black Rock in 1856. Part of a sailing group known as "packet ships",  its remains are the last surviving remains of this type of vessel.  Packet ships carried both cargo and people in its cross-Atlantic voyages and were the first…

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