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    I have not been down to the western end of the seafront for some time but just past the toilets(are they opened yet)? there was a memorial to the Zeebrugge raid and a plaque remembering the raid.

    It was in the form of a couple of anchors (in my mind anyway) but the memorial said "these are grappling irons used in the raid on Zeebrugge".

    Grappling irons, to me anyway, are hooks that were thrown aboard sailing ships in in pirate days to draw ships together so that they could plunder. The ones on the seafront would need a crane to pick them up never mind throw them.

    Have the local historians on here any answers and are they still there.

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