Una historia muy triste (video)

[manolouk]

Originalmente publicado por Kane

Por cierto, en el caso de este hombre, si yo me quisiera suicidar me iría a alta mar y haría un agujero en el casco. No montaría ese pollo, con olor a gas incluído, que habría que considerar que en inglés la gasolina se llama "gas".

La gasolina en ingles es "petrol".

[Kane]

Cierto, en UK. Pero en USA y Canadá es "gas", y hay que aprovechar para estimular la imaginación. Por si acaso, comparto cama con una canadiense.

[jotajota]

- History RNLI

Memorial in Douglas, Isle of Man, to one of RNLI's earliest rescues: rescuing the sailors from the St George in 1830.
Sir William Hillary came to live on the Isle of Man in 1808. Being aware of the treacherous nature of the Irish Sea, with many ships being wrecked around the Manx coast, he drew up plans for a national lifeboat service manned by trained crews. Initially he received little response from the Admiralty. However, on appealing to the more philanthropic members of London society, the plans were adopted and, with the help of two Members of Parliament (Thomas Wilson and George Hibbert), the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck was founded in 1824.
Thirty years later the title changed to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and the first of the new lifeboats to be built was stationed at Douglas in recognition of the work of Sir William.
At the age of 60, Sir William took part in the rescue, in 1830, of the packet St George, which had foundered on Conister Rock at the entrance to Douglas Harbour. He commanded the lifeboat and was washed overboard with others of the lifeboat crew, yet finally everyone aboard the St George was rescued with no loss of life. It was this incident which prompted Sir William to set up a scheme to build The Tower of Refuge on Conister Rock – a project completed in 1832 which stands to this day at the entrance to Douglas Harbour.[6]
In its first year, the RNLI added 13 boats to the existing 39 independent lifeboats.[7] By 1908 there were 280 RNLI lifeboats and 17 independents.


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