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Warning: mysql_pconnect() [function.mysql-pconnect]: Server sent charset (255) unknown to the client. Please, report to the developers in /usr/home/dmcsoft/public_html/tamh/config.php on line 263 Warning: mysql_pconnect() [function.mysql-pconnect]: Server sent charset unknown to the client. Please, report to the developers in /usr/home/dmcsoft/public_html/tamh/config.php on line 263 Warning: mysql_select_db() expects parameter 2 to be resource, boolean given in /usr/home/dmcsoft/public_html/tamh/config.php on line 264 The region around the Tay has a rich maritime history, and local people who influenced history on a grand scale: Admiral Duncan, commemorated this year in the bicentennial of the Battle of Camperdown; Richard Clark from Montrose, who captured Riga for the Swedes in 1612; Admiral Greig who commanded Catherine the Great’s Baltic fleet and is buried, a Russian naval hero, in Tallinn cathedral. The lives of other working people, too, have shaped the area: ships’ carpenters, fishers, lifeboatmen, whalers and merchants.
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