Dancing Hair

Dancing Hair by the coast in Gower, Port Eynon Point Monument. As you can see a very windy point which has proved treacherous for sailors.
Port Eynon and the rest of the Gower coast was notorious for claiming many ships on its dangerous rocks and sandbanks. The lifeboat station was established in 1884, after the locals of the village, despite numerous rescue attempts, had to watch helplessly as a steamship called the 'Agnes Jack' was driven onto the rocks and all its men were drowned. The lifeboat station serviced the South Gower coast for many years until a terrible tragedy happened in 1916. During a rescue attempt in a winter gale at Oxwich, the lifeboat was capsized twice by hugh waves and three lifeboat crew members drowned. As a result of these events the RNLI decided that it was too dangerous for villagers to attempt rescues in such conditions and closed the lifeboat station.
A monument was erected in Port Eynon churchyard as a tribute to the crew members bravery on that fateful day, particularly the three lifeboat men who lost their lives so terribly.
There is a plaque on the other side of this monument which reads :
THE GOWER SOCIETY HELPED TO PRESERVE THESE CLIFFS FOR THE NATION IN MEMORY OF
GWENT JONES 1910-1962
STEPHEN LEE 1889-1962
DAU GYFAILD CWYR
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