Thunderbird Posted December 21, 2011 Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 Did anyone see that documentary about it on BBC this week? Brought back memories. I was actually there at the time as I have family in Newlyn. It was terrible. Very important to support the RNLI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricko Posted December 21, 2011 Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 I watched it and I remember it as a kid, the whole nation mourned them, very moving documentary. Very sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted December 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 (edited) Seth Lakeman wrote a song about it called , a fine tribute I thought. Edited December 21, 2011 by Thunderbird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiganut Posted December 21, 2011 Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 These brave guys deserve all the best equipment money can buy. Life Governer RNLI,& proud of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted December 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 These brave guys deserve all the best equipment money can buy. Life Governer RNLI,& proud of it. Good for you mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rimfire4969 Posted December 21, 2011 Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 These brave guys deserve all the best equipment money can buy. Life Governer RNLI,& proud of it. I could not agree more. Here at perranporth we have the other side of the RNLI with life guards on the beach, they pull many people from the surf during the summer and in the process save many life's. We also collect for the RNLI at my caravan and campsite by asking donations to charge phones, batteries etc and by freezing ice packs. This year our donation was about £600. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisherman Mike Posted December 21, 2011 Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 Did anyone see that documentary about it on BBC this week? Brought back memories. I was actually there at the time as I have family in Newlyn. It was terrible. Very important to support the RNLI. We were in Mousehole for Xmas that year...it was absolutely desperate the place was bereft. Ive been at sea in 30 ft swells... God only knows what 50 - 60ft ones must have been like... Ive still got the Daily Express Newspaper cuttings from the incident in a scrap book at home.. Brave men all of them.. The Volunteers of the RNLI should be rewarded with pensions from the public purse when they retire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon R Posted December 21, 2011 Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 I watched it, but felt like turning it off. Compelling, but truly sad. I felt humbled by the bravery shown by the lifeboatmen. I am not soft, but I don't have the courage which they undoubtedly possess. True heroes. It must have been a privilege to have met them. :good: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted December 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 We were in Mousehole for Xmas that year...it was absolutely desperate the place was bereft. Ive been at sea in 30 ft swells... God only knows what 50 - 60ft ones must have been like... Ive still got the Daily Express Newspaper cuttings from the incident in a scrap book at home.. Brave men all of them.. The Volunteers of the RNLI should be rewarded with pensions from the public purse when they retire. Were you Mike? I was close by too, in Newlyn. The Solomon Browne was involved in the rescues for the 1979 Fastnet race too, I remember seeing wrecked yachts in Penzance and Newlyn (and Mousehole) harbours too that year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisherman Mike Posted December 21, 2011 Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 Were you Mike? I was close by too, in Newlyn. The Solomon Browne was involved in the rescues for the 1979 Fastnet race too, I remember seeing wrecked yachts in Penzance and Newlyn (and Mousehole) harbours too that year. My Aunt was married to a Cornishman, they had a small Cottage in a little hamlet above Mousehole called Paul. Do you know it.? Its famous as the home of the last woman alive to only speak the native tongue apparently... Not a very big place.. They lived there for 3 years but sold up very soon after the Penlee disaster and moved to St Agnes on the other coast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted December 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 I know Paul very well and in fact my great great great great grandfather and family are buried there. I have family all over that part of the world, as far east as the Roseland peninsula (Feock). He had 17 children. He was a blacksmith at Madron but went off on a ship to Chile after child number five (for 5 years), then he came back and had 12 more kids. My direct ancestor was one of the first five, not that it matters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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