Every once in a while it feels good to just do nothing. We stayed up slightly later than we probably should have to enjoy the fireworks. The second set we’ve seen while in Scotland. So this morning it felt good to wake up slowly, eat a breakfast of fire engine and just catch-up on some chores.
In the afternoon we did a rubbish collection around the harbour, confusing two teenage boys who thought we were collecting something more exciting. They said we needed to come to their local town and do the same. Sadly don’t think they were all too pleased when I suggested they organise a beach clean themselves. Seemed much more exciting to get someone else to do it for them. At least they were excited about the prospect of learning to kite, so possibly we inspired them towards something.
The Eyemouth Fishing Disaster
Friday 14th October 1881, now often refered to as “Black Friday”, dawned bright, calm and clear and as their boats had been tied up in port for a week, the fisherman of Eyemouth were impatient to be off to the fishing grounds to earn a wage.
It was a point of honour that if one boat sailed the rest of the fleet were obliged to follow, so around 8am watched by onlookers and families, 45 boats set off in tight formation, fanning out as they passed the Hurkur rocks to the fishing grounds 8-9 miles away.
Then around 11am hurricane “Euroclydon” struck. In the hours that followed, 19 boats, each worth around £350, were lost, foundered at sea, or smashed on rocks while trying to gain safe harbour, some within sight and hailing distance of would-be rescuers, who could do nothing but helplessly watch them drown. Two boats had a miraculous escape, when waves that could have smashed them to matchwood on rocks, lifted them over the danger and deposited them safely on land.This brings about high resolution, richness in color contrast and excellent generic levitra images to complement the long range shooting experience. Cheap Kamagra is beneficial to treat ED but produces instant outcomes when a person is well stimulated. cialis online consultation https://unica-web.com/ENGLISH/2016/presidents-letter-november.html A single dosage of this medication helps the person to attain penile straightening that matches the levels of intimacy. Check Out Your shop purchase levitra online Erectile Dysfunction is something that plagues cheapest tadalafil many men across the world.
189 East coast fishermen lost their lives. 129 from Eyemouth alone, leaving 73 widows and 263 fatherless children. Of those 129 men lost, only 30 bodies were recovered for burial, plus some unidentifiable body parts which were interred in a mass grave on Fort point.
Donations poured into a Disaster fund from all over the land, till the incredible sum of £54,000 was raised, funding a pension of 5shillings per week was paid to each widow, with a further 2shillings 6pence for each child until they reached age 14, which kept the families together without recourse to the “poorhouse”.
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