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Pendragon
Crew
Make Waves 4 Breakthrough
c/o Amelia Fawcett
25 Cabot Square
Canary Wharf
LONDON
E14 4QA
telephone: 020 7425 4940
fax: 020 7425 3032
email
Pendragon (any email sent to this address will be
received by the webmaster who will be able to pass on any
messages to the crew, they have a very slow and expensive
link and do not wish to jam their connection with many
messages, however well intentioned.)
Breakthrough Breast Cancer
Weston
House
3rd Floor
246 High Holborn
LONDON
WC1V 7EX
www.breakthrough.org.uk
email
Breakthrough
Tel:
020 7025 2400
Fax: 020 7025 2401
Registered charity no. 1062636
Website Contact
If you have any technical queries or issues regarding the
website, please email the web administrator:
James Suter
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Interesting
Trans-Atlantic Facts.
 In
1858, the first Transatlantic telegraph cable
was laid by Cyrus Field.
In 1919, the American NC-4 became the first
airplane to cross the Atlantic (though it made a
couple of landings on islands along the way).
Later in 1919, a British airplane piloted by
Alcock and Brown made the first non-stop
transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to
Ireland.
In 1921, the British were the first to cross the
North Atlantic in an airship.
The first transatlantic telephone call was made
on January 7, 1927.
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh made the first solo
non-stop transatlantic flight in an airplane
(between New York City and Paris).
After rowing for 81 days and 2,962 miles, on
December 3,
1999 Tori Murden became the first woman to
cross the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat alone when
she reached Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands.
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