'Bell Is Sign of Closure After 57 Years' ; Emotional Reunion of Sunken Ship's Parts for Widow

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"WHEN The Laforey went down it took my husband, the father of my two babies, with it. Today gives me a special feeling of closure."

Those were the words of 77-year-old Patricia Penny, who fought back tears as she watched the broken bell belonging to the doomed Grimsby vessel handed back to the people of the town, 57 years after she lost her childhood sweetheart to the treacherous sea.

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'Bell Is Sign of Closure After 57 Years' ; Emotional Reunion of Sunken Ship's Parts for Widow

The emotional grandmother was only 19 when she read in the Grimsby Telegraph that The Laforey had run aground on rocks near Sendingane, off t...

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