History is often immediately in your own journeys footsteps.

 

“I am going over. We are laying over. Help me. I am going over. Give my love and the crew's love to the wives and families.”

The last words of Phil Gay, Skipper of the Hull trawler Ross Cleveland. 4th February 1968

My father’s cousin went down with the Perridot.

I had never met him, strangely aged 9 I can clearly remember crying for him on my way home from school.

I still fill up, for him and the rest every time I hear, ‘for those in peril on the sea’.

Myself had similar experience, remembering hearing about Uncle Brain (Waller) he was lost at sea.

took me brother drain fishing, still l see us three walking with rods in hand. Never forgotten the bags of sweets he gave, telling us to hide them in our room, "Don`t let your dad see them."

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