{"id":657,"date":"2016-10-27T15:57:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T15:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/?p=657"},"modified":"2016-10-29T20:40:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T20:40:08","slug":"centenary-of-1916-salcombe-lifeboat-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/2016\/10\/27\/centenary-of-1916-salcombe-lifeboat-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Centenary of 1916 Salcombe Lifeboat Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-675 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/files\/2016\/10\/Salcombe-church-e1477773410855-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Salcombe church\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/files\/2016\/10\/Salcombe-church-e1477773410855-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/files\/2016\/10\/Salcombe-church-e1477773410855.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a beautiful, calm, morning in Salcombe today when the people who live around t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-658 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/files\/2016\/10\/Arriving-at-the-wreath-laying-point-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"Arriving at the wreath laying point\" width=\"343\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/files\/2016\/10\/Arriving-at-the-wreath-laying-point-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/files\/2016\/10\/Arriving-at-the-wreath-laying-point-768x380.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/files\/2016\/10\/Arriving-at-the-wreath-laying-point-1024x506.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/files\/2016\/10\/Arriving-at-the-wreath-laying-point.jpg 1562w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/>he Harbour turned out in their hundreds to pay tribute to the 13 crew members who died in the Salcombe Lifeboat Disaster on 27 October 1916. The two Salcombe lifeboats, accompanied by the Plymouth lifeboat (nearest the camera), three de-commissioned lifeboats, three Salcombe rowing gigs, a flotilla of small boats and the Coastguard helicopter, laid a wreath near the spot where the <em>William and Emma<\/em> was up-ended in near hurricane-force winds.<\/p>\n<p>Another poignant moment was when the three leading lifeboats <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-659\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/files\/2016\/10\/Passing-SS-lifeboat-house-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"Passing SS lifeboat house\" width=\"340\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/files\/2016\/10\/Passing-SS-lifeboat-house-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/files\/2016\/10\/Passing-SS-lifeboat-house-768x419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/files\/2016\/10\/Passing-SS-lifeboat-house-1024x559.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/files\/2016\/10\/Passing-SS-lifeboat-house.jpg 1591w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/>passed the old lifeboat station at South Sands, the home base which the <em>William and Emma<\/em> was trying to reach, and was so close to, before disaster struck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a beautiful, calm, morning in Salcombe today when the people who live around the Harbour turned out in their hundreds to pay tribute to the 13 crew members who died in the Salcombe Lifeboat Disaster on 27 October 1916. The two Salcombe lifeboats, accompanied by the Plymouth lifeboat (nearest the camera), three de-commissioned lifeboats, three Salcombe rowing gigs, a flotilla of small boats and the Coastguard helicopter, laid a wreath near the spot where the William and Emma&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/2016\/10\/27\/centenary-of-1916-salcombe-lifeboat-disaster\/\">read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Centenary of 1916 Salcombe Lifeboat Disaster<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}