Beacon Lighting Ceremony 7pm on 11th November 2018

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The merchantile marine, as it was termed in those times, played a significant and often critical role throughout the First World War…much the same as it would two decades later. In both world wars merchant seafarers and fishermen fought the enemy, the weather and the seas to keep the nation and the Armed Services supplied and able to defend themselves. Their way of life and conditions of service were austere with seafarers often not returning home for over two years, some having been sunk, survived and transferred to other ships to maintain those lines of support.

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