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# message in a bottle

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Alaskan man discovers 50-year-old message in a bottle from Russian sailor
A Russian television network tracked a return address in Vladivostok to a retired soviet ship captain now living in Crimea.
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Aug 19th 2019, 10:28 PM
British couple's message in a bottle reaches Gaza
They had thrown the bottle into the sea during a romantic holiday on the Greek island two months earlier.
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Aug 27th 2017, 9:30 AM
This kid found the world's worst message in a bottle written by two lads 'on the sesh'
“MASSIVE LOVE FOR THE SESH!”
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Oct 7th 2016, 6:45 PM
The internet is desperately trying to reunite a little boy with his message in a bottle
Freddy Marr, where are you?
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Aug 5th 2016, 8:22 AM
Take a break and read the world's oldest message in a bottle
The bottle had been drifting in the southern North Sea for just over 108 years.
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Apr 21st 2016, 11:00 AM
Did Mourinho really write a love letter to United? Agent says reports are 'totally absurd'
Mou angling for Old Trafford job, according to reports in Sunday’s papers.
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Jan 24th 2016, 10:08 AM
This could be the oldest message in a bottle ever found
It’s a bottle intended to track sea currents.
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Aug 21st 2015, 7:42 PM
Family honour their beloved grandad with a beautiful message in a bottle
They’re hoping everyone who finds it will send it on its journey again. :’(
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Aug 28th 2014, 6:00 PM
Lonely sailors throw Valentine's messages in bottles into the Antarctic
The ice-breaking ship is far from home in the season of love.
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Feb 13th 2014, 7:15 AM
The 2011 New Year's resolutions of one couple that washed up in Dublin
Did Karl and Isobel ever manage to work harder or be nicer to strangers? Will we ever know?
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Jan 5th 2014, 5:26 PM
The world's largest message in a bottle is enormous
It’s 26ft long and the message is 12 metres square.
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Mar 5th 2013, 2:56 PM
Letter in a bottle from Titanic victim goes on display
Jeremiah Burke wrote a goodbye note and threw it overboard in a bottle – a year after his death in the disaster, it washed up near his former home.
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Oct 27th 2011, 7:15 AM