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The Wreck of the Halsewell Part 2
A Sequence of Disasters
with Philip Browne
2 July 2019
Many of you will recall Philip's last talk about the wrecking of the Halsewell in 1786 below cliffs on the Dorset coast, a shipwreck shocked the nation.