{"id":1589,"date":"2018-12-15T13:47:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T21:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2018-12-15T13:47:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T21:47:28","slug":"edgar-bassett-lifeboat-disaster-1939-st-ives-cornwall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/edgar-bassett-lifeboat-disaster-1939-st-ives-cornwall\/","title":{"rendered":"Edgar Bassett Lifeboat Disaster, 1939, St. Ives Cornwall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edgar Bassett descends from\u00a0 #162 Morgan Bassett of St. Ives, Cornwall, England as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Bassett<br \/>\nRees Bassett (b. 1690) and wife Elizabeth<br \/>\nRobert Bassett (b. 1731) and wife Catherine Jenkins<br \/>\nThomas Bassett (b. 1761) and wife Elizabeth Glanville<br \/>\nThomas Bassett (b. 1810) and wife Ann Quilliam<br \/>\nEdward Bassett (b. 1847) and wife Anne Quick<br \/>\nJohn Bassett (b. 1869) and wife Annie Bryant<br \/>\nEdgar Bassett (b. 1908)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Edgar1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1590\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Edgar1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Edgar1.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Edgar1-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Cornishman and Cornish Telegraph, Thursday, January 26, 1939<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">From Our Own Reporter, St. Ives<\/p>\n<p>Drama and stark tragedy rode the Cornish seas in the dark hours of this morning, and when the dawn broke cold and grey the county was horrified to hear that the St. Ives lifeboat had been wrecked, with seven of her crew of eight drowned.<\/p>\n<p>St. Ives is a place of mourning as I write. Everywhere people are grouped together talking in hushed voices of this disaster that has plunged the whole town in sorrow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Edgar2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1591\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Edgar2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a>Plaque outside the current lifeboat station in St. Ives, Cornwall, England<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Edgar3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1592\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Edgar3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Edgar3.jpg 374w, https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Edgar3-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/a>St. Ives Harbor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edgar Bassett descends from\u00a0 #162 Morgan Bassett of St. Ives, Cornwall, England as follows: Morgan Bassett Rees Bassett (b. 1690) and wife Elizabeth Robert Bassett (b. 1731) and wife Catherine Jenkins Thomas Bassett (b. 1761) and wife Elizabeth Glanville Thomas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/edgar-bassett-lifeboat-disaster-1939-st-ives-cornwall\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}