Peter Piper was the coxswain of the Peneth lifeboat<\/p>\n
In his twenty-five years of service he and his crew had saved many lives<\/p>\n
But many others had drowned<\/p>\n
The sea is a harsh mistress <\/i><\/p>\n
He would often say to people in the town<\/p>\n
She is often friendly but has a terrible temper when angered <\/i><\/p>\n
She is a harsh mistress<\/em><\/p>\n He would often say to people in the town<\/p>\n On the 5th<\/sup> of November the first real storm of the autumn was brewing in the Atlantic<\/p>\n The skies were growing darker and both the lighthouses were showing warning beams<\/p>\n Peter was sitting in his lounge in his harbour side cottage with his wife Rosie<\/p>\n A long running game show was being shown on the television<\/p>\n It was called<\/p>\n Name that Sound <\/i><\/p>\n It was shown every Saturday evening live from the studios in London<\/p>\n Sixteen miles away the Madame Caravaggio<\/i> was heading towards the Tower Rocks<\/p>\n There had been a fire in her engine room and she was losing power<\/p>\n Two members of the crew were dead<\/p>\n The rest were listening to a football match on the Kiss Kiss Radio<\/i><\/p>\n The smiling host of the game show pressed a large button<\/p>\n A red disc and two blue discs appeared<\/p>\n Name that Sound<\/i><\/p>\n The younger of the two contestants lifted a yellow card<\/p>\n Two squirrels on a winters path <\/i><\/p>\n The game show host hesitated and looked directly into the camera<\/p>\n If your name is Peter Piper please raise your hand <\/i><\/p>\n Peter raised his hand<\/p>\n I have a message for you <\/i><\/p>\n What is the message? <\/i><\/p>\n Near the Tower Rocks there is a ship in distress <\/i><\/p>\n Her name is the Mistress Caravaggio <\/i><\/p>\n Two of the crew members are dead and the rest are listening to football on the Kiss Kiss Radio<\/i><\/p>\n Peter kissed his wife and left the room<\/p>\n It was going to be a long night<\/p>\n I will be going out to sea<\/i><\/p>\n The sea <\/i><\/p>\n Pray pray<\/i><\/p>\n Pray for me <\/i><\/p>\n He said as he left his home<\/p>\n Two hours later the small lifeboat reached the stricken ship<\/p>\n It was crashing against the Tower Rocks and was beginning to break up<\/p>\n Peter and his crew rescued the surviving members of the ships company as they dived into the foaming sea<\/p>\n Twenty-eight men were rescued without difficulty<\/p>\n The Chinese cook was the last to be rescued<\/p>\n And over a mug of latte he told a chilling story<\/p>\n They fought amongst themselves <\/i><\/p>\n The ship was sabotaged <\/i><\/p>\n The fire was deliberate <\/i><\/p>\n The mutineer\u2019s killed each other <\/i><\/p>\n And the others were cast helplessly into an open boat <\/i><\/p>\n Which capsized almost immediately drowning each <\/i><\/p>\n As he lay in his bed that night Peter Piper listened to the howling storm<\/p>\n Yes indeed it was two squirrels on a winter\u2019s path <\/i><\/p>\n You sir have won first prize on this evenings show <\/i><\/p>\n Name that Sound <\/i><\/p>\n The young contestant smiled broadly and waved enthusiastically at the studio audience<\/p>\n Peter closed his eyes<\/p>\n He was tired of the sea<\/p>\n In the fifteen years since the Buddha\u2019s had been destroyed thirteen ships had come to grief on the Tower Rocks<\/p>\n On each occasion a mutiny had caused the disaster<\/p>\n Peter opened his eyes and looked at his sleeping wife<\/p>\n He was tired of mutinies at sea<\/p>\n On an asteroid not far from Earth the winning contestant<\/p>\n A boy called Garth<\/p>\n Was enjoying his prize<\/p>\n Fifteen Buddha\u2019s and thirteen bars of gold<\/p>\n The young man was blissfully happy<\/p>\n Although he was growing old<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Peter Piper was the coxswain of the Peneth lifeboat In his twenty-five years of service he and his crew had saved many lives But many others had drowned The sea is a harsh mistress He would often say to people in the town She is often friendly but has a terrible temper when angered She […]<\/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\/2567"}],"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=2567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}