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The wreck of the jet-powered Bluebird K7, which sank to the bottom of Lake Coniston in January 1967 before being found and raised by divers in 2001, is now being re-assembled piece by piece.
Donald Campbell's Bluebird will return to Coniston Water after a long-running dispute ended yesterday. Mr Campbell's body and the K7 hydroplane sunk to the bottom of the lake in Cumbria after it ...
Gina Campbell, who has twice broken women's water-speed records, is considering reconstructing the wreckage of Bluebird K7 and racing it on Coniston Water, in tribute to her father. Sir Donald's ...
The daughter of Donald Campbell, Gina, in the cockpit of Bluebird K7, after the craft was put on display at the Ruskin Museum in Coniston last month A museum has seen the number of visitors surge ...
Donald Campbell's Bluebird K7 hydroplane has gone on show close to where it was built 70 years ago. The craft was built at Samlesbury Engineering, which was situated next to Samlesbury Hall, Preston.
He restored the hydroplane with a team of volunteers at the Bluebird Project in North Shields. On Saturday, the K7 travelled 147 miles from North Shields to Coniston with thousands of people ...
The race is on for Ledge Point "speed freak" Mark Motzouris as he tries to get his K7 Bluebird replica across the line for New Year's Eve - and fittingly, it is going down to the wire. The 53-year ...
DONALD Campbell’s record-breaking hydroplane, Bluebird K7, has been reunited with the World Water Speed Trophy in Poole. It is the first time since Donald Campbell CBE’s death on Coniston ...