SS Nornen

On our way back from Lyme Regis we stopped for lunch near St Mary’s Parish Church in Brean, on the Somerset coast. Lucy had a run on the beach near a familiar shipwreck which, I’ve only just discovered, was a Norwegian barque, the SS Nornen. The boat ran aground in March 1897. The ten crew, and their dog, were rescued by the men of the Burnham lifeboat the John Godfrey Morris. And here it has been for the last 123 years…

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