As kids one of my brothers and I plus three or four others decided - TopicsExpress



          

As kids one of my brothers and I plus three or four others decided to ride to Porthcawl on our bikes to see this wrecked ship, I think it was 26 miles from Ely. I kept getting left behind on our way as I had my sisters bike and the chain kept coming off the cogs. On the way home I managed to pass the others by hanging on the back of a truck that towed me up Cowbridge Hill, my brother wasnt very pleased with this prank as I came close to one of the stone walls occasionally but I lived to tell the tale. SS Samtampa was a 7,219 ton steam ship wrecked on Sker Point, off Porthcawl and Kenfig, Wales, in the Bristol Channel on 23 April 1947. There were 47 fatalities in the incident, 39 from the ship and 8 volunteer crew of the Mumbles RNLI rescue team from the lifeboat Edward, Prince of Wales who died attempting to save the crew of the Samtampa. A memorial to the victims of the Samtampa tragedy is in Porthcawl Cemetery.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 00:04:05 +0000

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