Between the January and October of 1929 John Trevelyan and his wife Margot rented a small cottage near Portleven<\/p>\n
The poet kept a detailed diary of his visit which often included short poems and other observations <\/i><\/p>\n
The Unnamed Sailors <\/b><\/p>\n
The unnamed sailors
\nRest in the long grasses
\nNot far from the cliff face
\nA short distance below
\nThe tides come and go
\nAs they always have <\/i><\/p>\n
Although many years discontinued it was not unknown for drowned sailors to be buried in mass graves without Christian ceremony. The last recorded instance of this nature of burial that I can find occurred after the wreck of the James and Rebecca in 1807<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Wreck of the St Mawr <\/b><\/p>\n In January 1815 the St Mawr<\/i> bound for London from Batavia ran into a terrible storm in Mounts Bay and was driven ashore near Portleven.<\/p>\n Within minutes of the ship being beached the crew found themselves being attacked by tinners and many others who stripped the ship of anything of the remotest value<\/p>\n Captain Muller who was badly hurt during the attack found time to record two lines in his pocket diary which was handed back to him some months later<\/p>\n Here come the cannibals <\/p>\n La Stromboli Prende il Congedo \u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n I looked on to the tip of the <\/em> <\/p>\n In 1878 the 734-ton steamer Stromboli late of the Mediterranean service sailed too close to The Lizard and struck the Maenheere Rock. The stricken ship was later beached on the north-west tip of Gew Graze. I found very little trace of the ship on my visit apart from the remains of a boiler and some iron plating<\/em><\/p>\n JT 8th <\/sup>June 1929 <\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Between the January and October of 1929 John Trevelyan and his wife Margot rented a small cottage near Portleven The poet kept a detailed diary of his visit which often included short poems and other observations The Unnamed Sailors The unnamed sailors Rest in the long grasses Not far from the cliff face A short […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDo pray for the unfortunates <\/i><\/p>\n
\n Gew-Graze-Gaze<\/em>
\n And watched her sleep <\/em>
\n As the heavy swell broke her heart<\/em>
\n Into many pi<\/em>eces<\/p>\n