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Coniston Water

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Coniston Water [ˈkɒnɪstən]
n
(Placename) a lake in NW England, in Cumbria: scene of the establishment of world water speed records by Sir Malcolm Campbell (1939) and his son Donald Campbell (1959). Length: 8 km (5 miles)


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TRAGEDY struck on Coniston Water in the Lake District on January 4, 1967, when Donald Campbell was killed as he attempted to break his own water speed record in his jet-powered boat Bluebird K7.
Gina Campbell fixed the first rivet in the craft, which was recovered from the bottom of Coniston Water in the Lake District in 2001 and is being restored.
Now the engine from Bluebird is being taken from a North Shields workshop to a museum on the shore of Coniston Water in the Lake District.
 
 
 
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