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Welcome to
The Nornen Project

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Have you seen the Nornen?
The shipwreck at Berrow?
Have you heard the stories?

Explore and celebrate the story behind

the wrecking of The Nornen

on Berrow Beach (Somerset) in 1897.

photo by Ben Costigan. A stormy sky with a low camera perpective looking out to see through the modern day wrecked skeleton Nornen hull on Berrow Beach.

Image by Ben Costigan

Image of a stormy sea. dramatic waves with large wooden sailing ship with tattered black sails and strong rigging. Text in a free hand font reads All Hands!

 Performance

black background photo with a person filling the left two thirds of the frame. He is dressed in a black fleece hoody with the hood back and wearing a black baseball cap. Standing in profile visible from the waist. He holds a nautical sexton made of cardbaord upto his eye looking to the right.

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A big BSL welcome!

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