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# ROWING: Gusting winds and the damage caused by a launch to one of the lines marking the lanes resulted in Limerick Regatta being suspended. Quite a few of the finals had already been completed. Sinead Jennings won the women’s senior single sculls and Colm Dowling the men’s.

Limerick Regatta, O’Brien’s Bridge, Saturday (rowing suspended due to winds):

Men, Eight – Intermediate: 1 St Michael’s, 2 Trinity. Junior 16: 1 Colaiste Iognaid, 2 Presentation College, 3 St Joseph’s A. Masters: 1 Shannon/Clonmel, 2 Waterford, 3 Shannon.

Four – Senior: 1 St Michael’s A, 2 St Michael’s B. Novice, coxed: 1 NUIG B, 2 Trinity, 3 NUIG.

Pair – Senior: 1 St Michael’s, 2 St Michael’s B, 3 Clonmel.

Sculling, Quadruple – Senior: 1 Clonmel/Castleconnell, 2 Garda, 3 University of Limerick. Novice, coxed: 1 Commercial, 2 Galway, 3 St Michael’s.

Double – Junior 18A: 1 Commercial A, 2 Athlone A, 3 St Michael’s A.

Single – Senior: 1 Commercial (C Dowling), 2 Clonmel (Prendergast), 3 Castleconnell (Quinlan). Intermediate: 1 Clonmel (Prendergast), 2 Garda (Kelly), 3 Trinity (McElroy). Junior 18A: 1 Shannon (Carmody), 2 St Michael’s (O’Malley), 3 Athlone (Egan). Junior 16: 1 Castleconnell (Whittle), 2 Cork (O’Connell), 3 Waterford (Goff).

Women

Eight – Junior 18: 1 Galway, 2 Shannon.

Four – Novice, coxed: 1 Commercial, 2 Galway, 3 NUIG A.

Pair – Senior: 1 Muckross, 2 Commercial, 3 NUIG.

Sculling, Quadruple – Novice, coxed: 1 Cork, 2 Athlunkard. Junior 18A: 1 St Michael’s, 2 Galway A, 3 Castleconnell. Junior 16, coxed: 1 Carlow, 2 Neptune, 3 St Michael’s B.

Single – Senior: St Michael’s (S Jennings). Intermediate: 1 St Michael’s (O’Keeffe), 2 Commercial (Hogan), 3 Lee Valley (Corcoran).

Published in Rowing
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About Commander Bill King, Solo Circumnavigator

William Donald Aelian King was the last surviving submarine commander in the Second World War - in charge of the British Navy's T-class Telemachus that sank a Japanese sub in the Strait of Malacca, between Malaysia and Sumatra, in 1944.

Decorated many times for his service by the end of the war, King became a trailblazing solo sailor.

At the age of 58, he was the oldest participant in The Sunday Times Golden Globe Race sailing Galway Blazer II, a junk-rigged schooner he designed himself.

After a number of abortive attempts, including an incident with "a large sea creature", he finally completed his solo circumnavigation of the globe in 1973.

Beyond his aquatic escapades, King settled with his wife Anita (who died in 1984, aged 70) at Oranmore Castle outside Galway after the war, where he later developed a pioneering organic farm and garden to help tackle his wife's asthma.

The round-the-world sailor and Galway native Bill King died on Friday, 21 September, 2012, aged 102.