Coniston Water
Britishnoun
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The Ruskin Museum is aiming to run Bluebird again on Coniston Water at some point next year when it will be piloted by Australian Dave Warby, son of the late-water speed world-record holder Ken Warby.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025
Having been recovered from the bottom of Coniston Water 34 years later, it was rebuilt by a team of engineers on Tyneside.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2024
The hydroplane's wreckage was recovered in 2001 after its pilot was killed in a crash on Coniston Water in 1967.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 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
They settled for a while at Tent Lodge on Coniston Water, in a land of hospitable Marshalls.
From Alfred Tennyson by Lang, Andrew
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