SS Lorina (1918)
TSS Lorina was a passenger vessel built for the London and South Western Railway in 1918.
History
She was built by William Denny and Brothers and launched on 12 August 1918.
She was converted into a troopship by Caledon Shipyards in Dundee. After an initial role as a troop ship, she was deployed on service in March 1920 for the railway company to the Channel Islands.
She was acquired by the Southern Railway in 1923. On 27 August 1927 when leaving Guernsey she collided with a motor fishing boat in St Peter Port. The fishing boat sank within two minutes, and one of the fishermen drowned. On 23 October 1935 she struck the Platte Rock rock near St Helier Harbour but there were no casualties.
She was bombed and sunk on 29 May 1940 off Dunkerque by Luftwaffe aircraft with the loss of eight crew.
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The End Of Silence
by: Cea SerinDisregard the afterthought
No future lies dormant
These black painted stars and faint leprous skies
Peer out in scarred torment
But how bitter grace dawns them
Two eyes shocked and worn thin
Without mention of past or future's requiem
Torn from empty need
Though buried by lips of recourse
From light breaks a riven seed
And calls back the throe of remorse
The end of silence
Inhales the fragile side
The end of silence
Reflects on what's been tied
Hastened by the relevance
Whose seconds are tripled in esteem
Misshapen by regret
But crippled to redeem
A part that retires from mind
One vague moment in time
To covet a still life
And relive some half sight
Torn from empty need
Though buried by lips of recourse
From light breaks a riven seed
And calls back the throe of remorse
For all that's come
The advent of all that's come
And new words wrung
With new words and riddles rung
Atone the grief
Intone for all the grief
For self belief
For the wages of self belief
Embrace the absence
Tune back and look inside
At the end of silence
No plea can be justified
For all that's come
The advent of all that's come
And new words wrung
With new words and riddles rung
Atone the grief
Intone for all the grief
For self belief