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Ex-sailor's film shows Mayflower II's colorful 1957 voyage

by Associated Press
| September 16, 2020 12:03 AM

LONDON (AP) — The sea voyage that changed Peter Padfield’s life more than six decades ago started with an act of chance. In 1956, Padfield was third officer aboard a British cruise liner in Sri Lanka when he stumbled across a magazine in a ship wardrobe.

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