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Interview with Shirley Robertson
Who are you? My names Shirley Robertson, I’m Scottish, I have 2 gold medals, 2 children, I work in TV. I’m passionate about all things boaty. What was your first experience of working? Selling jeans!! Hated it, became a sailing instructor after that so I could workin in the holidays. What is your earliest memory […]
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Scott McAlinn’s Sea Views
Who are you? Scott McAlinn, Electrical manager for Teekay Shipping in our Glasgow office.32 Years old, married with two children and a boxer named Lola! I only recently became part of the Teekay Team. Previously I was a seafarer with BP where I was fortunate enough to visit many places around the world as Electrical […]
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Mike Bullock Sea Views
Who are you My name is Mike Bullock. I joined the Royal Navy straight from school when I was 18 and worked in a submarine as well as surface ships including an aircraft carrier. My naval career took me across the world and I even worked in the United States for six years. I am […]
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Interview With Lisa Månsson
Who are you? I am the museum director of the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, the world’s most visited maritime museum. I am also a keen sailor since I was very young. What was your first experience of working? When I was a student my summer job was as a lockkeeper at Göta Canal. The Göta […]
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Geraldine McCaughrean’s Sea Views
Who are you? Geraldine McCaughrean – writer since I was eight, published since I was 28. What was your first experience of working? I delivered newspapers very early in the morning, every day. It paid 15 shilling (75p) a week, which meant I could ride a horse for an hour on Sundays. All the other […]
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The Lighthouse by Geraldine McCaughrean
Henry Winstanley designed playing cards and lived miles from the sea. So he was not the most obvious person to build a lighthouse. But whereas others tried and gave up, Winstanley insisted it was perfectly possible and that he was the man to do it. In 1696, he mustered carpenters and engineers and, with his […]
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Dee On A Wide Wide Sea
Maybe you have read Michael Morpurgo’s wonderful book Alone On A Wide Wide Sea. Maybe you haven’t. It’s one of those books that takes you on a long journey and you’re never quite sure of what’s going to happen next. As you might expect, given the title of the book, the sea comes into the […]
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Radhika Menon, Captain On The Bridge
Have a look at India on the map of the world. What do you see? You should be able to pick out the major cities of Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai. You’ll probably also be struck by how much of the country is surrounded by water: the Arabian Sea to the west; the Bay of […]
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Blue Peter Man And Boy
Aged five, Stephen got home from school as he did every Monday and Thursday in 1965 and put on his favourite television programme, Blue Peter. He just loved finding out about places he had never heard of and people who did amazing things. Stuff to do with the sea was the best and when he […]
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About us
Founded in 2010, the Sir Thomas Lipton Foundation is a registered charity.
We care deeply about propelling 10 to 12 year old children – at school in areas of acute social and economic disadvantage – into their critical teenage years with an unforgettable experience of sailing, enterprise and achievement.
At the heart of Buoyed Up is a narrative about the life and example of Sir Thomas Lipton.