One sentence. Thursday 01st May 2025.

Today’s sentence:

“The shift is felt below as you pass Roche’s Point to the sea and we go into the South, to find coffin ships anew in the Middle Sea.”

Inspiration and Observation:
On Saturday, 12th May 2015, the LÉ Eithne slipped from Haulbowline Island in Cork, and sailed toward the Mediterranean. Under the command of Cmdr Pearse O’Donnell, she carried a ship’s company of sixty-nine. It was the beginning of a life-changing experience for everyone who sailed that day. It was a historic first overseas deployment of the Naval Service for a major humanitarian mission. The first deployment as part of Operation PONTUS. Excitement ran through the old girl as we headed out to sea. I remember laughing and joking with my comrades, young and not-so-young about what lay ahead of us. I could not have truly comprehended what we were to meet, and what we were to do. Over the next sixty-three days, during twenty-two operations, we rescued or assisted in the rescue of 3,376 people. Those sailors that went south, will never forget them.

The sentence lodged for later use as:
“The shift is felt below as you pass Roche’s Point to the sea. South we go, to see the new coffin ships.”

It evolved as:

• “The shift is felt below as you pass Roche’s Point to the sea; south we go, to see the new coffin ships.”
• “The shift is felt below as you pass Roche’s Point to the sea and we go into the South, to see the new coffin ships.”
• “The shift is felt below as you pass Roche’s Point to the sea and we go into the South, to find coffin ships anew in the Middle Sea.”