[1] On 5 December 2011, Row2Recovery's first Atlantic rowing crew[2] departed the Port of San Sebastian on La Gomera, one of Spain's Canary Islands.
Rowing For Our Wounded had been founded by Paddy Nicoll in April 2012 to assist "serving and former members of the armed forces who have been wounded or disabled whilst on active service to recover mentally and/ or physically and cope with their disabilities through the provision of specially adaptive equipment, services and funding to enable them to take part in adaptive-rowing or other adaptive sports.".
On 4 December 2013, Row2Recovery's second Atlantic rowing crew departed the Port of San Sebastian on La Gomera, one of Spain's Canary Islands.
It was at this event that Prince Harry and Sir Keith Mills were given a demonstration of an indoor adaptive-rowing race which helped convince them that it was an appropriate sport for the Invictus Games.
On 20 December 2015, Row2Recovery's third Atlantic rowing crew departed the Port of San Sebastian on La Gomera, one of Spain's Canary Islands.