Remebering the crew of the solomon browne and the courageous crew of the #rnli #penlee lifeboat. For anyone living on an island, living / holidaying by the sea or coast be thankful for those volunteers for #savinglifeatsea whatever your circumstances
@robinince.bsky.social you may have heard this but if not please listen it’s a fitting tribute to quiet bravery. #Penlee
44 years ago today #RNLI #Penlee Solomon Browne went to the aid of the Union Star off the coast of SW #Cornwall in force 11 conditions. The sea took all 16 souls that night. 8 from the Solomon Browne and 8 from the Union Star. Bravery beyond belief.
With the Festive season approaching,Please take time to Remember the Brave Men of “The Solomon Browne” RNLB from Penlee,Who Tragically Lost their Lives attending “The Union Star”
19th December 1981,🙏🙏🙏
Your Duties done,may you ALL RIP 🪦 True Heroes
#penlee #rnli #heroes #solomonbrowne
August 2023 a dramatic rescue by the #Penlee #lifeboat. A woman was marooned on a rock in heavy seas. We watched from the cliff top. Donate to @RNLI
This introspective self-portrait catches Dod Procter at a moment when she was shaping her public image as a modern professional artist. Born Doris “Dod” Shaw in London in 1890, she trained as a teenager at Stanhope and Elizabeth Forbes’s school in Newlyn, then studied in Paris at the progressive Atelier Colarossi, absorbing lessons from Cézanne and Renoir. In the 1920s, she became widely known for her paintings of young women, reducing detail and heightening form to create calm, monumental figures. Her painting “Morning” was famously bought for the national collection, briefly making her a household name. Here, she turns that same clear, unsentimental eye on herself. The painting shows a young Procter in three-quarter profile, turned to the right so we see the clear outline of her nose, lips, and chin against a deep, almost velvety black background. Her skin is pale with a gentle pink flush across her cheeks and nose, suggesting cool light falling from the left. She has dark brown hair cut in a neat, close bob with a straight fringe and softly rounded shape hugging her head. Her gaze is directed out of frame, thoughtful rather than posed, with her mouth closed and relaxed. Procter wears a light, grey-beige sweater with soft, brushed texture and sleeves that gather subtly at the wrists. Around her neck is a bright, patterned scarf, predominantly crimson with touches of grey, tied in a simple knot so the ends fall down her chest. The contrast between her glowing flesh tones, the muted jumper, and the vivid scarf is crisp, but peaceful. The bobbed hair, plain sweater, and bold scarf evoke the new independence of interwar women, yet her averted gaze hints at reserve and self-containment rather than showmanship. The work belongs to her mature Newlyn period and shows the poised, androgynous persona that helped her become one of the first women elected to full membership of the Royal Academy, while also anchoring Penlee House’s story of women artists in West Cornwall.
“Self Portrait” by Dod Procter (British) - Oil on canvas / c. 1920s - Penlee House Gallery & Museum (Penzance, England) #WomenInArt #DodProcter #Procter #PenleeHouse #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #art #artText #artwork #BlueskyArt #BritishArtist #Penlee #1920s #BritishArt #arte #SelfPortrait #WomensArt
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William Trevelyan Richards, James Stephen Madron, Nigel Brockman, John Robert Blewitt, Charles Thomas Greenhaugh, Kevin Smith, Barry Robertson Torrie and Gary Lee Wallis - heroes all, RIP
On the 19th December 1981 Penlee lifeboat Solomon Browne launched into horrendous seas to go to the aid of MV Union Star, they never returned. True Cornish heroes made the ultimate sacrifice, we will never forget. Rest In Peace...
#RNLI #Penlee #cornwall
A picture of the 8 brave crewmen of Penlee RNLI Solomon Browne who were all taken by the sea off the coast of Cornwall 43 years ago. Bravery beyond belief that night. RIP you absolute heroes.
A picture of the launch slipway with the names of the Solomon Browne overlayed.
Front page of The Mirror newspaper with the headlines of the Penlee Lifeboat Disaster.
Remembering the 16 souls 43 years ago who never came home when the 8 crew of #RNLI #TheSolomonBrowne went to rescue the 8 crew of #TheUnionStar. The sea took them all that night in some of the worst conditions ever seen off the coast of #Cornwall #Kernow #Penlee
I can't even... Even the #Penlee has to pay Chas for the privilege of launching the lifeboat...
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