Remembering a Lifeboat Crew's Bid to Save Lives 60 Years Ago

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April 24, 1947. Dawn breaks over Sker Point, Porthcawl. A police inspector follows an ominous trail of white paint, shattered beams and brass fittings across the rocks. It leads to an overturned lifeboat. A sight, 60 years ago today, to fill Wales with woe.

For this was the wreckage of the lifeboat Edward, Prince of Wales, crewed by men of Mumbles on a night of elemental fury, a night when the raging sea stole 49 lives.

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Remembering a Lifeboat Crew's Bid to Save Lives 60 Years Ago

Wales was accustomed to death in the pits. We'd seen the hearts ripped out of too many mining communities - Senghenydd's toll in 1913 was almost 10 times greater than this night's ...

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