Polruan celebrated Harvest of the Sea with the Polperro Fishermen’s choir. The service was led on the old coal wharf by the Trelawny Rector, Richard Allen. Up to 140 people gathered. We celebrated the fishing harvest of our sea and gave thanks for fishermen who`s job is dangerous and becoming increasingly more difficult with depleted fishing stocks. We remembered too especially the work of the RNLI who`s crews put their own life’s at risk. The Rector in his talk reminded the congregation of the sacrifice given by Trevelyan Richards and the Penlee Lifeboat crew who lost their lives at sea trying to save the crew of the Union Star off the Cornish coast in 1981. He related it as a modern day parable as Jesus himself had sacrificed his life to save others.
