O célebre salva-vidas Mona naufragou há 65 anos...

   

RNLB Mona (ON 775) was a Watson Class lifeboat based at Broughty Ferry in Scotland, that capsized during a rescue attempt, with the loss of her entire crew of eight men. The Mona was built in 1935, and, in her time, saved 118 lives.

  

The loss of the Mona

At 03.13 hours on 8 December 1959, the Mona was launched to assist the North Carr Lightship which was reported adrift in St Andrews Bay. Weather conditions were exceptionally severe with a strong south-easterly gale and the Broughty Ferry Lifeboat was the only boat in the area able to launch. The Mona was seen clearing the Tay and heading south into St Andrews Bay. Her last radio message was timed at 04.48am, and after a helicopter search she was found capsized on Buddon Sands. Her crew of eight were all drowned. The North Carr reef is off the coast of Fife. The lightvessel, later replaced by a beacon, is now berthed at Victoria Dock, Dundee harbour.

As The Mona was struggling to reach the North Carr, the Lightship's crew of six were able to drop their spare anchor. They were all rescued alive and well by a helicopter the next morning, 24 hours after the first call for help had gone out.

The Mona disaster was the subject of an official investigation, in which the boat was described as having been 100% seaworthy at the time of the accident.

According to a letter to the Dundee Evening Telegraph, in January 2006, "Among some seamen, it was believed the vessel was tainted with evil, and they resolved to exorcise the boat in a 'viking ritual'". The Mona was taken to Cockenzie harbour on the river Forth in the dead of night, stripped of anything of value, chained to the sea wall, and burnt. The burning was done with the knowledge and permission of Lord Saltoun, the chairman of the Scottish Lifeboat Council. Questions were raised in the House of Commons about the destruction of a lifeboat built with public subscription.

The incident was immortalised in song by Peggy Seeger entitled The Lifeboat Mona, which is sung by The Dubliners, commemorating its great achievements and the hardships the crew endured.

The scale of the tragedy stunned the local community, and a disaster fund raised more than £77,000 in less than a month.

By the time a relief lifeboat arrived at Broughty Ferry two weeks after the disaster, 38 volunteers had signed up to form a new crew.

The names of the men who died are commemorated on a plaque on the side of the present day boat house.

Local newspaper the Dundee Courier and Evening Telegraph was at the forefront of coverage of the disaster. In 2006, on his retirement, deputy chief reporter Ron Skelton told regional journalism website HoldTheFrontPage that it was his work in covering The Lifeboat Mona disaster that convinced him his future lay in hard news.

The 50th anniversary of the disaster, in 2009, saw a number of memorial events organised to mark the occasion. These included a memorial concert on the actual anniversary date and talks entitled The Mona Remembered at the local church on 23 and 25 November.

There was also an appeal for relatives of the lost crew to come forward.
      

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O Costa Concordia naufragou há doze anos...

 

O Naufrágio do Costa Concordia foi um acidente ocorrido com o navio de cruzeiro Costa Concordia no dia 13 de janeiro de 2012. Navegando junto à costa da ilha de Giglio, na região da Toscânia, a embarcação abalroou rochas sub-aquáticas, devido ao seu calado. O acidente causou 32 mortes.

Após um solavanco e um corte de corrente elétrica, o comandante comunicou que havia uma avaria no gerador e que em breve a energia seria restabelecida; na sequência, foi dada a ordem de abandonar o navio, uma vez que o comando da embarcação estava na responsabilidade do imediato do comandante; Naquele momento, e da inspeção do imediato, observou-se que estava entrando água no navio. Segundo comunicado do armador, o navio bateu num banco de areia. Fotos indicam que embarcação também bateu em rochas, ficando um pedaço de pedra preso ao casco rompido do navio. O navio adernou a estibordo, ficando com aproximadamente dois terços dentro da água.

Alguns sobreviventes relataram que a música My Heart Will Go On, de Céline Dion, da banda sonora do filme Titanic, foi a última canção ouvida pelos passageiros do navio Costa Concordia quando afundou. O capitão Francesco Schettino foi um dos primeiros a abandonar o seu navio. Segundo informações dele junto à comunicação social internacional, o mesmo justificou que fora arremetido na hora do choque e caíra no mar, e que já tinha outro comandante (o imediato), em seu lugar. Dessa forma recusou-se a retornar ao navio para organizar a retirada dos passageiros e tripulantes. Mesmo assim foi suspenso pela Costa Crociere e ficou em prisão domiciliar, até 5 de julho de 2012.
  

Mapa de localização do naufrágio 

   
O navio naufragou após colisão com uma rocha junto ao porto da ilha de Giglio. O barco estava inclinado num ângulo de 80º. No naufrágio 32 pessoas faleceram (com o último corpo sendo localizado apenas em novembro de 2014). O Costa Concordia, naquela noite, estava com 3.229 passageiros e 1.023 tripulantes.

   

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O Mona naufragou há 64 anos...

   

RNLB Mona (ON 775) was a Watson Class lifeboat based at Broughty Ferry in Scotland, that capsized during a rescue attempt, with the loss of her entire crew of eight men. The Mona was built in 1935, and, in her time, saved 118 lives.

  

The loss of the Mona

At 03.13 hours on 8 December 1959, the Mona was launched to assist the North Carr Lightship which was reported adrift in St Andrews Bay. Weather conditions were exceptionally severe with a strong south-easterly gale and the Broughty Ferry Lifeboat was the only boat in the area able to launch. The Mona was seen clearing the Tay and heading south into St Andrews Bay. Her last radio message was timed at 04.48am, and after a helicopter search she was found capsized on Buddon Sands. Her crew of eight were all drowned. The North Carr reef is off the coast of Fife. The lightvessel, later replaced by a beacon, is now berthed at Victoria Dock, Dundee harbour.

As The Mona was struggling to reach the North Carr, the Lightship's crew of six were able to drop their spare anchor. They were all rescued alive and well by a helicopter the next morning, 24 hours after the first call for help had gone out.

The Mona disaster was the subject of an official investigation, in which the boat was described as having been 100% seaworthy at the time of the accident.

According to a letter to the Dundee Evening Telegraph, in January 2006, "Among some seamen, it was believed the vessel was tainted with evil, and they resolved to exorcise the boat in a 'viking ritual'". The Mona was taken to Cockenzie harbour on the river Forth in the dead of night, stripped of anything of value, chained to the sea wall, and burnt. The burning was done with the knowledge and permission of Lord Saltoun, the chairman of the Scottish Lifeboat Council. Questions were raised in the House of Commons about the destruction of a lifeboat built with public subscription.

The incident was immortalised in song by Peggy Seeger entitled The Lifeboat Mona, which is sung by The Dubliners, commemorating its great achievements and the hardships the crew endured.

The scale of the tragedy stunned the local community, and a disaster fund raised more than £77,000 in less than a month.

By the time a relief lifeboat arrived at Broughty Ferry two weeks after the disaster, 38 volunteers had signed up to form a new crew.

The names of the men who died are commemorated on a plaque on the side of the present day boat house.

Local newspaper the Dundee Courier and Evening Telegraph was at the forefront of coverage of the disaster. In 2006, on his retirement, deputy chief reporter Ron Skelton told regional journalism website HoldTheFrontPage that it was his work in covering The Lifeboat Mona disaster that convinced him his future lay in hard news.

The 50th anniversary of the disaster, in 2009, saw a number of memorial events organised to mark the occasion. These included a memorial concert on the actual anniversary date and talks entitled The Mona Remembered at the local church on 23 and 25 November.

There was also an appeal for relatives of the lost crew to come forward.
      

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O Costa Concordia naufragou há onze anos...

 

O Naufrágio do Costa Concordia foi um acidente ocorrido com o navio de cruzeiro Costa Concordia no dia 13 de janeiro de 2012. Navegando junto à costa da ilha de Giglio, na região da Toscânia, a embarcação abalroou rochas sub-aquáticas, devido ao seu calado. O acidente causou 32 mortes.

Após um solavanco e um corte de corrente elétrica, o comandante comunicou que havia uma avaria no gerador e que em breve a energia seria restabelecida; na sequência, foi dada a ordem de abandonar o navio, uma vez que o comando da embarcação estava na responsabilidade do imediato do comandante; Naquele momento, e da inspeção do imediato, observou-se que estava entrando água no navio. Segundo comunicado do armador, o navio bateu num banco de areia. Fotos indicam que embarcação também bateu em rochas, ficando um pedaço de pedra preso ao casco rompido do navio. O navio adernou a estibordo, ficando com aproximadamente dois terços dentro da água.

Alguns sobreviventes relataram que a música My Heart Will Go On, de Céline Dion, da banda sonora do filme Titanic, foi a última canção ouvida pelos passageiros do navio Costa Concordia quando afundou. O capitão Francesco Schettino foi um dos primeiros a abandonar o seu navio. Segundo informações dele junto à comunicação social internacional, o mesmo justificou que fora arremetido na hora do choque e caíra no mar, e que já tinha outro comandante (o imediato), em seu lugar. Dessa forma recusou-se a retornar ao navio para organizar a retirada dos passageiros e tripulantes. Mesmo assim foi suspenso pela Costa Crociere e ficou em prisão domiciliar, até 5 de julho de 2012.
  

Mapa de localização do naufrágio 

   
O navio naufragou após colisão com uma rocha junto ao porto da ilha de Giglio. O barco estava inclinado num ângulo de 80º. No naufrágio 32 pessoas faleceram (com o último corpo sendo localizado apenas em novembro de 2014). O Costa Concordia, naquela noite, estava com 3.229 passageiros e 1.023 tripulantes.

   

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O Mona naufragou há 63 anos...

 

   

RNLB Mona (ON 775) was a Watson Class lifeboat based at Broughty Ferry in Scotland, that capsized during a rescue attempt, with the loss of her entire crew of eight men. The Mona was built in 1935, and, in her time, saved 118 lives.

  

The loss of the Mona

At 03.13 hours on 8 December 1959, the Mona was launched to assist the North Carr Lightship which was reported adrift in St Andrews Bay. Weather conditions were exceptionally severe with a strong south-easterly gale and the Broughty Ferry Lifeboat was the only boat in the area able to launch. The Mona was seen clearing the Tay and heading south into St Andrews Bay. Her last radio message was timed at 04.48am, and after a helicopter search she was found capsized on Buddon Sands. Her crew of eight were all drowned. The North Carr reef is off the coast of Fife. The lightvessel, later replaced by a beacon, is now berthed at Victoria Dock, Dundee harbour.

As The Mona was struggling to reach the North Carr, the Lightship's crew of six were able to drop their spare anchor. They were all rescued alive and well by a helicopter the next morning, 24 hours after the first call for help had gone out.

The Mona disaster was the subject of an official investigation, in which the boat was described as having been 100% seaworthy at the time of the accident.

According to a letter to the Dundee Evening Telegraph, in January 2006, "Among some seamen, it was believed the vessel was tainted with evil, and they resolved to exorcise the boat in a 'viking ritual'". The Mona was taken to Cockenzie harbour on the river Forth in the dead of night, stripped of anything of value, chained to the sea wall, and burnt. The burning was done with the knowledge and permission of Lord Saltoun, the chairman of the Scottish Lifeboat Council. Questions were raised in the House of Commons about the destruction of a lifeboat built with public subscription.

The incident was immortalised in song by Peggy Seeger entitled The Lifeboat Mona, which is sung by The Dubliners, commemorating its great achievements and the hardships the crew endured.

The scale of the tragedy stunned the local community, and a disaster fund raised more than £77,000 in less than a month.

By the time a relief lifeboat arrived at Broughty Ferry two weeks after the disaster, 38 volunteers had signed up to form a new crew.

The names of the men who died are commemorated on a plaque on the side of the present day boat house.

Local newspaper the Dundee Courier and Evening Telegraph was at the forefront of coverage of the disaster. In 2006, on his retirement, deputy chief reporter Ron Skelton told regional journalism website HoldTheFrontPage that it was his work in covering The Lifeboat Mona disaster that convinced him his future lay in hard news.

The 50th anniversary of the disaster, in 2009, saw a number of memorial events organised to mark the occasion. These included a memorial concert on the actual anniversary date and talks entitled The Mona Remembered at the local church on 23 and 25 November.

There was also an appeal for relatives of the lost crew to come forward.
      

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O naufrágio do Costa Concordia foi há dez anos...

 

O Naufrágio do Costa Concordia foi um acidente ocorrido com o navio de cruzeiro Costa Concordia no dia 13 de janeiro de 2012. Navegando junto à costa da ilha de Giglio, na região da Toscânia, a embarcação abalroou rochas sub-aquáticas, devido ao seu calado. O acidente causou 32 mortes.

Após um solavanco e um corte de corrente elétrica, o comandante comunicou que havia uma avaria no gerador e que em breve a energia seria restabelecida; na sequência, foi dada a ordem de abandonar o navio, uma vez que o comando da embarcação estava na responsabilidade do imediato do comandante; Naquele momento, e da inspeção do imediato, observou-se que estava entrando água no navio. Segundo comunicado do armador, o navio bateu num banco de areia. Fotos indicam que embarcação também bateu em rochas, ficando um pedaço de pedra preso ao casco rompido do navio. O navio adernou a estibordo, ficando com aproximadamente dois terços dentro da água.

Alguns sobreviventes relataram que a música My Heart Will Go On, de Céline Dion, da banda sonora do filme Titanic, foi a última canção ouvida pelos passageiros do navio Costa Concordia quando afundou. O capitão Francesco Schettino foi um dos primeiros a abandonar o seu navio. Segundo informações dele junto à comunicação social internacional, o mesmo justificou que fora arremetido na hora do choque e caíra no mar, e que já tinha outro comandante (o imediato), em seu lugar. Dessa forma se recusou a retornar a ele para organizar a retirada dos passageiros e tripulantes. Mesmo assim foi suspenso pela Costa Crociere e ficou em prisão domiciliar, até 5 de julho de 2012.
  

Mapa de localização do naufrágio 

   
O navio naufragou após colisão com uma rocha junto ao porto da ilha de Giglio. O barco estava inclinado num ângulo de 80º. No naufrágio 32 pessoas faleceram (com o último corpo sendo localizado apenas em novembro de 2014). O Costa Concordia, naquela noite, estava com 3.229 passageiros e 1.023 tripulantes.

   

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O Mona naufragou há 62 anos...

 

   

RNLB Mona (ON 775) was a Watson Class lifeboat based at Broughty Ferry in Scotland, that capsized during a rescue attempt, with the loss of her entire crew of eight men. The Mona was built in 1935, and, in her time, saved 118 lives.

  

The loss of the Mona

At 03.13 hours on 8 December 1959, the Mona was launched to assist the North Carr Lightship which was reported adrift in St Andrews Bay. Weather conditions were exceptionally severe with a strong south-easterly gale and the Broughty Ferry Lifeboat was the only boat in the area able to launch. The Mona was seen clearing the Tay and heading south into St Andrews Bay. Her last radio message was timed at 04.48am, and after a helicopter search she was found capsized on Buddon Sands. Her crew of eight were all drowned. The North Carr reef is off the coast of Fife. The lightvessel, later replaced by a beacon, is now berthed at Victoria Dock, Dundee harbour.

As The Mona was struggling to reach the North Carr, the Lightship's crew of six were able to drop their spare anchor. They were all rescued alive and well by a helicopter the next morning, 24 hours after the first call for help had gone out.

The Mona disaster was the subject of an official investigation, in which the boat was described as having been 100% seaworthy at the time of the accident.

According to a letter to the Dundee Evening Telegraph, in January 2006, "Among some seamen, it was believed the vessel was tainted with evil, and they resolved to exorcise the boat in a 'viking ritual'". The Mona was taken to Cockenzie harbour on the river Forth in the dead of night, stripped of anything of value, chained to the sea wall, and burnt. The burning was done with the knowledge and permission of Lord Saltoun, the chairman of the Scottish Lifeboat Council. Questions were raised in the House of Commons about the destruction of a lifeboat built with public subscription.

The incident was immortalised in song by Peggy Seeger entitled The Lifeboat Mona, which is sung by The Dubliners, commemorating its great achievements and the hardships the crew endured.

The scale of the tragedy stunned the local community, and a disaster fund raised more than £77,000 in less than a month.

By the time a relief lifeboat arrived at Broughty Ferry two weeks after the disaster, 38 volunteers had signed up to form a new crew.

The names of the men who died are commemorated on a plaque on the side of the present day boat house.

Local newspaper the Dundee Courier and Evening Telegraph was at the forefront of coverage of the disaster. In 2006, on his retirement, deputy chief reporter Ron Skelton told regional journalism website HoldTheFrontPage that it was his work in covering The Lifeboat Mona disaster that convinced him his future lay in hard news.

The 50th anniversary of the disaster, in 2009, saw a number of memorial events organised to mark the occasion. These included a memorial concert on the actual anniversary date and talks entitled The Mona Remembered at the local church on 23 and 25 November.

There was also an appeal for relatives of the lost crew to come forward.
    

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O naufrágio do Costa Concordia foi há nove anos

 

O Naufrágio do Costa Concordia foi um acidente ocorrido com o navio de cruzeiro Costa Concordia no dia 13 de janeiro de 2012. Navegando junto à costa da ilha de Giglio, na região da Toscânia, a embarcação abalroou rochas sub-aquáticas, devido ao seu calado. O acidente causou 32 mortes.

Após um solavanco e um corte de corrente elétrica, o comandante comunicou que havia uma avaria no gerador e que em breve a energia seria restabelecida; na sequência, foi dada a ordem de abandonar o navio, uma vez que o comando da embarcação estava na responsabilidade do imediato do comandante; Naquele momento, e da inspeção do imediato, observou-se que estava entrando água no navio. Segundo comunicado do armador, o navio bateu num banco de areia. Fotos indicam que embarcação também bateu em rochas, ficando um pedaço de pedra preso ao casco rompido do navio. O navio adernou a estibordo, ficando com aproximadamente dois terços dentro da água.

Alguns sobreviventes relataram que a música My Heart Will Go On, de Céline Dion, da banda sonora do filme Titanic, foi a última canção ouvida pelos passageiros do navio Costa Concordia quando afundou. O capitão Francesco Schettino foi um dos primeiros a abandonar seu navio. Segundo informações dele junto à comunicação social internacional, o mesmo justificou que fora arremetido na hora do choque e caíra no mar, e que já tinha outro comandante (o imediato), em seu lugar. Dessa forma se recusou a retornar a ele para organizar a retirada dos passageiros e tripulantes. Mesmo assim foi suspenso pela Costa Crociere e ficou em prisão domiciliar, até 5 de julho de 2012.
  

Mapa de localização do naufrágio 

   
O navio naufragou após colisão com rocha junto ao porto da ilha de Giglio. O barco estava inclinado num ângulo de 80º. No naufrágio 32 pessoas faleceram (com o último corpo sendo localizado apenas em novembro de 2014). O Costa Concordia, naquela noite, estava com 3.229 passageiros e 1.023 tripulantes.

   

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O Mona naufragou há 61 anos

 

   

RNLB Mona (ON 775) was a Watson Class lifeboat based at Broughty Ferry in Scotland, that capsized during a rescue attempt, with the loss of her entire crew of eight men. The Mona was built in 1935, and, in her time, saved 118 lives.

  

The loss of the Mona

At 03.13 hours on 8 December 1959, the Mona was launched to assist the North Carr Lightship which was reported adrift in St Andrews Bay. Weather conditions were exceptionally severe with a strong south-easterly gale and the Broughty Ferry Lifeboat was the only boat in the area able to launch. The Mona was seen clearing the Tay and heading south into St Andrews Bay. Her last radio message was timed at 04.48am, and after a helicopter search she was found capsized on Buddon Sands. Her crew of eight were all drowned. The North Carr reef is off the coast of Fife. The lightvessel, later replaced by a beacon, is now berthed at Victoria Dock, Dundee harbour.

As The Mona was struggling to reach the North Carr, the Lightship's crew of six were able to drop their spare anchor. They were all rescued alive and well by a helicopter the next morning, 24 hours after the first call for help had gone out.

The Mona disaster was the subject of an official investigation, in which the boat was described as having been 100% seaworthy at the time of the accident.

According to a letter to the Dundee Evening Telegraph, in January 2006, "Among some seamen, it was believed the vessel was tainted with evil, and they resolved to exorcise the boat in a 'viking ritual'". The Mona was taken to Cockenzie harbour on the river Forth in the dead of night, stripped of anything of value, chained to the sea wall, and burnt. The burning was done with the knowledge and permission of Lord Saltoun, the chairman of the Scottish Lifeboat Council. Questions were raised in the House of Commons about the destruction of a lifeboat built with public subscription.

The incident was immortalised in song by Peggy Seeger entitled The Lifeboat Mona, which is sung by The Dubliners, commemorating its great achievements and the hardships the crew endured.

The scale of the tragedy stunned the local community, and a disaster fund raised more than £77,000 in less than a month.

By the time a relief lifeboat arrived at Broughty Ferry two weeks after the disaster, 38 volunteers had signed up to form a new crew.

The names of the men who died are commemorated on a plaque on the side of the present day boat house.

Local newspaper the Dundee Courier and Evening Telegraph was at the forefront of coverage of the disaster. In 2006, on his retirement, deputy chief reporter Ron Skelton told regional journalism website HoldTheFrontPage that it was his work in covering The Lifeboat Mona disaster that convinced him his future lay in hard news.

The 50th anniversary of the disaster, in 2009, saw a number of memorial events organised to mark the occasion. These included a memorial concert on the actual anniversary date and talks entitled The Mona Remembered at the local church on 23 and 25 November.

There was also an appeal for relatives of the lost crew to come forward.
    

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O salva-vidas Mona naufragou há sessenta anos

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RNLB Mona (ON 775) was a Watson Class lifeboat based at Broughty Ferry in Scotland, that capsized during a rescue attempt, with the loss of her entire crew of eight men. The Mona was built in 1935, and, in her time, saved 118 lives.
  

The loss of the Mona

At 03.13 hours on 8 December 1959, the Mona was launched to assist the North Carr Lightship which was reported adrift in St Andrews Bay. Weather conditions were exceptionally severe with a strong south-easterly gale and the Broughty Ferry Lifeboat was the only boat in the area able to launch. The Mona was seen clearing the Tay and heading south into St Andrews Bay. Her last radio message was timed at 04.48am, and after a helicopter search she was found capsized on Buddon Sands. Her crew of eight were all drowned. The North Carr reef is off the coast of Fife. The lightvessel, later replaced by a beacon, is now berthed at Victoria Dock, Dundee harbour.

As The Mona was struggling to reach the North Carr, the Lightship's crew of six were able to drop their spare anchor. They were all rescued alive and well by a helicopter the next morning, 24 hours after the first call for help had gone out.

The Mona disaster was the subject of an official investigation, in which the boat was described as having been 100% seaworthy at the time of the accident.

According to a letter to the Dundee Evening Telegraph, in January 2006, "Among some seamen, it was believed the vessel was tainted with evil, and they resolved to exorcise the boat in a 'viking ritual'". The Mona was taken to Cockenzie harbour on the river Forth in the dead of night, stripped of anything of value, chained to the sea wall, and burnt. The burning was done with the knowledge and permission of Lord Saltoun, the chairman of the Scottish Lifeboat Council. Questions were raised in the House of Commons about the destruction of a lifeboat built with public subscription.

The incident was immortalised in song by Peggy Seeger entitled The Lifeboat Mona, which is sung by The Dubliners, commemorating its great achievements and the hardships the crew endured.

 

   
Names of crewmen

• Ronald Grant
• George Smith
• Alexander Gall
• John Grieve
• George Watson
• James Ferrier
• John T Grieve
• David Anderson

The scale of the tragedy stunned the local community, and a disaster fund raised more than £77,000 in less than a month.

By the time a relief lifeboat arrived at Broughty Ferry two weeks after the disaster, 38 volunteers had signed up to form a new crew.

The names of the men who died are commemorated on a plaque on the side of the present day boat house.

Local newspaper the Dundee Courier and Evening Telegraph was at the forefront of coverage of the disaster. In 2006, on his retirement, deputy chief reporter Ron Skelton told regional journalism website HoldTheFrontPage that it was his work in covering The Lifeboat Mona disaster that convinced him his future lay in hard news.

The 50th anniversary of the disaster, in 2009, saw a number of memorial events organised to mark the occasion. These included a memorial concert on the actual anniversary date and talks entitled The Mona Remembered at the local church on 23 and 25 November.

There was also an appeal for relatives of the lost crew to come forward.
    

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The Lifeboat Mona - The Dubliners

Remember December fifty-nine
The howling wind and the driving rain
Remember the gallant men who drowned
On the lifeboat Mona was her name

The wind it blows and the sea roar's up
Beats the land with mighty waves
At St.Andrew's bay the lightship fought
The sea until her moorings gave

Three hours went by and the mona called
the wind blows hard and the sea runs high
in the morning of Carnusty beach
the Mona and her crew did lie

The captain signalled to the shore
We must have help or we'll go down
From Broughty Ferry at two a.m
They sent the lifeboat Mona

Eight men formed that gallant crew
They set their boats against the main
The wind's so hard and the sea's so rough
We'll never sea land or sea again

Five lay drowned in the cabin there,
two were washed up on the shore
Eight men died when the boat capsized
and the eight is lost forever more.

Remember December fifty-nine
the howling wind and the driving rain
The men who leave the land behind
and the men who never see their homes again.

Sophia deixou-nos há catorze anos...

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Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (Porto, 6 de novembro de 1919 - Lisboa, 2 de julho de 2004) foi uma das mais importantes poetisas portuguesas do século XX. Foi a primeira mulher portuguesa a receber o mais importante galardão literário da língua portuguesa, o Prémio Camões, em 1999.

  

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen é filha de Maria Amélia de Mello Breyner e de João Henrique Andresen. Tem origem dinamarquesa pelo lado paterno. O seu bisavô, Jan Heinrich Andresen, desembarcou um dia no Porto e nunca mais abandonou esta região, tendo o seu filho João Henrique comprado, em 1895, a Quinta do Campo Alegre, hoje Jardim Botânico do Porto. Como afirmou em entrevista, em 1993, essa quinta "foi um território fabuloso com uma grande e rica família servida por uma criadagem numerosa". A mãe, Maria Amélia de Mello Breyner, é filha do conde de Mafra, médico e amigo do rei D.Carlos. Maria Amélia é também neta do conde Henrique de Burnay, um dos homens mais ricos do seu tempo.

Criada na velha aristocracia portuguesa, educada nos valores tradicionais da moral cristã, foi dirigente de movimentos universitários católicos quando frequentava Filologia Clássica na Universidade de Lisboa (1936-39). Colaborou na revista Cadernos de Poesia, onde fez amizades com autores influentes e reconhecidos: Ruy Cinatti e Jorge de Sena. Veio a tornar-se uma das figuras mais representativas de uma atitude política liberal, apoiando o movimento monárquico e denunciando o regime salazarista e os seus seguidores. Ficou célebre como canção de intervenção dos Católicos Progressistas a sua "Cantata da Paz", também conhecida e chamada pelo seu refrão: "Vemos, Ouvimos e Lemos. Não podemos ignorar!"

Casou-se, em 1946, com o jornalista, político e advogado Francisco Sousa Tavares e foi mãe de cinco filhos: uma professora universitária de Letras, um jornalista e escritor de renome (Miguel Sousa Tavares), um pintor e ceramista e mais uma filha que é terapeuta ocupacional e herdou o nome da mãe. Os filhos motivaram-na a escrever contos infantis.

Em 1964 recebeu o Grande Prémio de Poesia pela Sociedade Portuguesa de Escritores pelo seu livro Livro sexto. Já depois da Revolução dos Cravos (25 de Abril), foi eleita para a Assembleia Constituinte, em 1975, pelo círculo do Porto, numa lista do Partido Socialista, enquanto o seu marido navegava, mais tarde, rumo ao Partido Social Democrata.

Distinguiu-se também como contista (Contos Exemplares) e autora de livros infantis (A Menina do Mar, O Cavaleiro da Dinamarca, A Floresta, O Rapaz de Bronze, A Fada Oriana, etc.). Foi também tradutora de Dante Alighieri e de Shakespeare e membro da Academia das Ciências de Lisboa. Para além do Prémio Camões, foi também distinguida com o Prémio Rainha Sofia, em 2003.

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen faleceu, aos 84 anos, no dia 2 de julho de 2004 no Hospital da Cruz Vermelha.

Desde 2005, no Oceanário de Lisboa, os seus poemas com ligação forte ao Mar foram colocados para leitura permanente nas zonas de descanso da exposição, permitindo aos visitantes absorverem a força da sua escrita enquanto estão imersos numa visão de fundo do mar.

  

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Soneto
 
Esperança e desespero de alimento
Me servem neste dia em que te espero
E já não sei se quero ou se não quero
Tão longe de razões é meu tormento.
 
Mas como usar o amor de entendimento?
Daquilo que te peço desespero
Ainda que mo dês – pois o que eu quero
Ninguém o dá senão por um momento.
 
Mas como és belo, amor, de não durares,
De ser tão breve e fundo o teu engano,
E de eu te possuir sem tu te dares.
 
Amor perfeito dado a um ser humano:
Também morre o florir de mil pomares
E se quebram as ondas no oceano.
 
 
in Coral (1950) - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

Foi há 55 anos que o salva-vidas Mona se perdeu...

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RNLB Mona (ON 775) was a Watson Class lifeboat based at Broughty Ferry in Scotland, that capsized during a rescue attempt, with the loss of her entire crew of eight men. The Mona was built in 1935, and, in her time, saved 118 lives.

The loss of the Mona

At 03.13 hours on 8 December 1959, the Mona was launched to assist the North Carr Lightship which was reported adrift in St Andrews Bay. Weather conditions were exceptionally severe with a strong south-easterly gale and the Broughty Ferry Lifeboat was the only boat in the area able to launch. The Mona was seen clearing the Tay and heading south into St Andrews Bay. Her last radio message was timed at 04.48am, and after a helicopter search she was found capsized on Buddon Sands. Her crew of eight were all drowned. The North Carr reef is off the coast of Fife. The lightvessel, later replaced by a beacon, is now berthed at Victoria Dock, Dundee harbour.

As The Mona was struggling to reach the North Carr, the Lightship's crew of six were able to drop their spare anchor. They were all rescued alive and well by a helicopter the next morning, 24 hours after the first call for help had gone out.

The Mona disaster was the subject of an official investigation, in which the boat was described as having been 100% seaworthy at the time of the accident.

According to a letter to the Dundee Evening Telegraph, in January 2006, "Among some seamen, it was believed the vessel was tainted with evil, and they resolved to exorcise the boat in a 'viking ritual'". The Mona was taken to Cockenzie harbour on the river Forth in the dead of night, stripped of anything of value, chained to the sea wall, and burnt. The burning was done with the knowledge and permission of Lord Saltoun, the chairman of the Scottish Lifeboat Council. Questions were raised in the House of Commons about the destruction of a lifeboat built with public subscription.

The incident was immortalised in song by Peggy Seeger entitled The Lifeboat Mona, which is sung by The Dubliners, commemorating its great achievements and the hardships the crew endured.

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Names of crewmen

• Ronald Grant
• George Smith
• Alexander Gall
• John Grieve
• George Watson
• James Ferrier
• John T Grieve
• David Anderson

The scale of the tragedy stunned the local community, and a disaster fund raised more than £77,000 in less than a month.

By the time a relief lifeboat arrived at Broughty Ferry two weeks after the disaster, 38 volunteers had signed up to form a new crew.

The names of the men who died are commemorated on a plaque on the side of the present day boat house.

Local newspaper the Dundee Courier and Evening Telegraph was at the forefront of coverage of the disaster. In 2006, on his retirement, deputy chief reporter Ron Skelton told regional journalism website HoldTheFrontPage that it was his work in covering The Lifeboat Mona disaster that convinced him his future lay in hard news.

The 50th anniversary of the disaster, in 2009, saw a number of memorial events organised to mark the occasion. These included a memorial concert on the actual anniversary date and talks entitled The Mona Remembered at the local church on 23 and 25 November.

There was also an appeal for relatives of the lost crew to come forward.

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The Lifeboat Mona - The Dubliners

Remember December fifty-nine
The howling wind and the driving rain
Remember the gallant men who drowned
On the lifeboat Mona was her name

The wind it blows and the sea roar's up
Beats the land with mighty waves
At St.Andrew's bay the lightship fought
The sea until her moorings gave

Three hours went by and the mona called
the wind blows hard and the sea runs high
in the morning of Carnusty beach
the Mona and her crew did lie

The captain signalled to the shore
We must have help or we'll go down
From Broughty Ferry at two a.m
They sent the lifeboat Mona

Eight men formed that gallant crew
They set their boats against the main
The wind's so hard and the sea's so rough
We'll never sea land or sea again

Five lay drowned in the cabin there,
two were washed up on the shore
Eight men died when the boat capsized
and the eight is lost forever more.

Remember December fifty-nine
the howling wind and the driving rain
The men who leave the land behind
and the men who never see their homes again.

Sophia deixou-nos há nove anos...

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Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (Porto, 6 de novembro de 1919 - Lisboa, 2 de julho de 2004) foi uma das mais importantes poetisas portuguesas do século XX. Foi a primeira mulher portuguesa a receber o mais importante galardão literário da língua portuguesa, o Prémio Camões, em 1999.

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen é filha de Maria Amélia de Mello Breyner e de João Henrique Andresen. Tem origem dinamarquesa pelo lado paterno. O seu bisavô, Jan Heinrich Andresen, desembarcou um dia no Porto e nunca mais abandonou esta região, tendo o seu filho João Henrique comprado, em 1895, a Quinta do Campo Alegre, hoje Jardim Botânico do Porto. Como afirmou em entrevista, em 1993, essa quinta "foi um território fabuloso com uma grande e rica família servida por uma criadagem numerosa". A mãe, Maria Amélia de Mello Breyner, é filha do conde de Mafra, médico e amigo do rei D.Carlos. Maria Amélia é também neta do conde Henrique de Burnay, um dos homens mais ricos do seu tempo.

Criada na velha aristocracia portuguesa, educada nos valores tradicionais da moral cristã, foi dirigente de movimentos universitários católicos quando frequentava Filologia Clássica na Universidade de Lisboa (1936-39). Colaborou na revista Cadernos de Poesia, onde fez amizades com autores influentes e reconhecidos: Ruy Cinatti e Jorge de Sena. Veio a tornar-se uma das figuras mais representativas de uma atitude política liberal, apoiando o movimento monárquico e denunciando o regime salazarista e os seus seguidores. Ficou célebre como canção de intervenção dos Católicos Progressistas a sua "Cantata da Paz", também conhecida e chamada pelo seu refrão: "Vemos, Ouvimos e Lemos. Não podemos ignorar!"

Casou-se, em 1946, com o jornalista, político e advogado Francisco Sousa Tavares e foi mãe de cinco filhos: uma professora universitária de Letras, um jornalista e escritor de renome (Miguel Sousa Tavares), um pintor e ceramista e mais uma filha que é terapeuta ocupacional e herdou o nome da mãe. Os filhos motivaram-na a escrever contos infantis.

Em 1964 recebeu o Grande Prémio de Poesia pela Sociedade Portuguesa de Escritores pelo seu livro Livro sexto. Já depois da Revolução dos Cravos (25 de Abril), foi eleita para a Assembleia Constituinte, em 1975, pelo círculo do Porto, numa lista do Partido Socialista, enquanto o seu marido navegava, mais tarde, rumo ao Partido Social Democrata.

Distinguiu-se também como contista (Contos Exemplares) e autora de livros infantis (A Menina do Mar, O Cavaleiro da Dinamarca, A Floresta, O Rapaz de Bronze, A Fada Oriana, etc.). Foi também tradutora de Dante Alighieri e de Shakespeare e membro da Academia das Ciências de Lisboa. Para além do Prémio Camões, foi também distinguida com o Prémio Rainha Sofia, em 2003.

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen faleceu, aos 84 anos, no dia 2 de julho de 2004 no Hospital da Cruz Vermelha.

Desde 2005, no Oceanário de Lisboa, os seus poemas com ligação forte ao Mar foram colocados para leitura permanente nas zonas de descanso da exposição, permitindo aos visitantes absorverem a força da sua escrita enquanto estão imersos numa visão de fundo do mar.

in Wikipédia

Soneto

Esperança e desespero de alimento
Me servem neste dia em que te espero
E já não sei se quero ou se não quero
Tão longe de razões é meu tormento.

Mas como usar o amor de entendimento?
Daquilo que te peço desespero
Ainda que mo dês – pois o que eu quero
Ninguém o dá senão por um momento.

Mas como és belo, amor, de não durares,
De ser tão breve e fundo o teu engano,
E de eu te possuir sem tu te dares.

Amor perfeito dado a um ser humano:
Também morre o florir de mil pomares
E se quebram as ondas no oceano.

 
in Coral (1950) - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

Revista de Gestão Costeira Integrada - novo número

Recebido por e-mail, para divulgação:

Acaba de ser publicado on-line o número 1 do volume 11 (Março de 2011) da Revista de Gestão Costeira Integrada / Journal of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (http://www.aprh.pt/rgci/ - http://www.aprh.pt/rgci/index_eng.html).

Trata-se de um número temático que aglutina artigos sobre Lixo Marinho, os quais podem ser acedidos em http://www.aprh.pt/rgci/revista11f1.html.

Recorda-se, também, que estão abertas duas call for papers:

• "Morfodinâmica Estuarina e Costeira": http://www.aprh.pt/rgci/callforpapers_mec.html (a data limite para submissão de artigos foi adiada para 30 de Abril)
• "Interacções Homem - Meio em Zonas Costeiras": http://www.aprh.pt/rgci/callforpapers_ih.html