Triple Trawler Tragedy: The Hull Fishermen Who Never Came Home

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-42253251

I don't have any recollection of this happening at all.

What a dreadful story.

[KARL]

It is a dreadful story but a reflection of the fact that inertia, "tradition" (conservatism) and general backwardness played (and to a far too high degree still plays) a major role in the British way of life generally. Reactions are (to me and many others) surprisingly formulaic ("always done it this way", "it's our way", "it's our culture/identity", "it's the correct way") and all too often totally predictable, along with the consequences.

[catswhiskas]

I lived in Grimsby at that time and I remember it very well ,just awful that all those men would die, my grandfather was a trawlerman, so it really hit home.

[mikey4444]

Hull's Headscarf Heroes will be on BBC Four on Monday 5 February at 21:00 and be available on the iPlayer shortly after broadcast.

[catswhiskas]

Thanks Mikey, shall record that, I remember one of the campaigners she was called Lill.

[KARL]

Incidentally, the death toll would have been greater had the Icelandic coast guard's Odinn's crew not saved (in very difficult circumstances) the crew of the Notts County apart from one who died of hypothermia. Iceland lost a boat and crew, among them a father and his two teenage sons. Separately, as part of its "just" action against Iceland's "outrageous presumption" of ruling their seas the UK did its best to destroy the Odinn's purpose, the vessel and its crew.