We're holidaying on the coast. We wandered into the small local maritime museum and the RNLI museum and shop. Both featured an awful tragedy from 1916 when the local boat set off to a ship in distress having grounded on some rocks. Unknown to the crew just as they were setting off the last of the crew were being roped to safety by a shore based rescue crew .
After reaching the ship and seeing her deserted they turned home. But they had to negotiate the dangerous opening to the estuary known as The Bar. A massive wave capsized the boat. All bar 2 of the crew were lost.
As always I made a donation at the shop, I never know if I or my family will need than one day. The lady thanked me and said she was pleased donations were higher this week.
Good to see the moral majority of the UK doing the right thing.
I have heard that people are buying the RNLI Christians cards and posting them to the Reform freepost address. Supporting a great charity and forcing Reform to spend
@FreddieUK What? Why does such a thing need to be said? How could anyone call someone who goes to sea in the worst of weather to rescue those in distress a traitor?
@ninalanyon There are blinkered people in our midst who are so viscerally driven by their focused passion (in this case small boats) that they stop seeing good people and just frame everything in a simplistic fashion. If you don't fit in their frame, you are considered a traitor.
