https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-64731286

Big news for wild darkness. There’s a big team and years of work behind this designation. Give yourselves a pat on the back.

#enlli #darkskies #darksky #northwales #penllyn #skyatnight #WildWales

Accidental overlap of personal research interests. 'Jack's Yarns' was a comical series of patriotic/jingoistic narrative poems (to put it mildly) interspersed with comic-style illustrations published during #WW1. On 19 Feb 1915, the Brecon County Times published the instalment ''The SS Elsinore' in which the captain of the same sinks a #German #submarine just off #Holyhead through deliberate collision. In real life this wouldn't happen until Christmas day 1917 off #Enlli, but here we are with the #propaganda in 1915.
Source: https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/1102881 -- includes the full poem

For context, the story of the Linda Blanche sunk only three weeks earlier: https://www.peoplescollection.wales/collections/991931

The story of the SM-U 87, sunk two years later: https://www.peoplescollection.wales/collections/966246

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