We are very grateful to Len Sheppard of Newquay Museum who gave a talk at the Royal Cornwall Museum in June 1917 on the 1917 lifeboat disaster in the town, when the James Stephens No. 5 went down in terrible seas in the attempt to rescue a stricken ship. Panels and banners from Heart of Conflict will be on display in Newquay this December – the centenary of the lifeboat loss.
The Hicks family still fish in Newquay today
Many of the descendants of these fishermen still live in the town
