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Danger and adventure for Tyne and Wear ships’ crews in the Spanish Civil War

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This photograph of the devastation of the Basque port of Bilbao in April 1937 was taken by Captain Still of the Newcastle ship Hamsterley, on a mission to take food to the beleaguered city and rescue refugees during the Spanish… Read more