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Hermione Launch 2012

May 10, 2015 Leave a Comment by Richard Sibley tall ships

Hermione leaves the dock where she was built, amidst great ceremony she enters the Charente for the first time. The following morning she slips into her new berth where she will eventually be rigged.

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Richard Sibley

Photographer with a passion for photographing tall ships and traditional sailing boats

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