Again this year Watch Ashore members have been helping to promote Seafarers Awareness Week. Throughout the week various organisations have held events to raise awareness and we have been delighted to be involved. The Watch Ashore Plymouth members organised and manned displays in local libraries to raise awareness. Glasgow Branch assisted with the Seafarers UK bucket collection. The MNWB SW Ports along with Plymouth University held a seminar/workshop "Maritime Jobs for Future Generations" and throughout the week we have been highlighting the Seafarers Awareness Week via all the social media channels.
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Hull Maritime Museum Exhibition
A new exhibition at Hull's Maritime Museum hopes to inspire a new generation of heroes at sea.
Hull's Maritime Museum hopes to inspire new ideas on how to improve safety at sea through a new exhibition.
"SOS – Heroes of the Humber" celebrates the bravery of seafarers and their families.
Collections Assistant Jocelyn Anderson-Wood, says there are many people from the region who helped save hundreds of lives:
"Alexander Gordon Carte worked to invent life saving equipment like the life-saving rocket which was used by people onshore to get a rope to a ship in distress. After a few years they were stationed all up and down the Yorkshire Coast and they saved something like 400 lives in the space of 20 years or so."
She says they've looked at heroes from the 1800s up to the present day:
"I don't think people, still to this day, have a grasp of what dangers people face when they go to sea. If we can inspire some people to create more life-saving equipment, to go out and rescue people, that'd be really great."
Admission to the Maritime Museum is free and the SOS – Heroes of the Humber exhibition will be on display until the 5th June.