Coniston Water
Britishnoun
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The final day of running on Coniston Water for Donald Campbell's restored Bluebird was abandoned due to high winds and further technical woes.
From BBC • May 17, 2026
Donald Campbell's boat, Bluebird K7, will run again on Coniston Water, the Ruskin Museum has announced at its homecoming press conference.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2024
Donald Campbell's Bluebird craft will return to the Lake District later, decades after its pilot was killed in a crash on Coniston Water.
From BBC • Mar. 9, 2024
Donald Campbell, a forty-six-year-old serial speed-record holder, died while attempting to break his own world water-speed record, on Coniston Water, in the Lake District.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019
Coniston Water, a lake 5 m. long and ½ m. broad, at the foot of Coniston Fells, in Lancashire, with Brantwood on the E. side of it, the residence of John Ruskin.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
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