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Brave horses who gave their lives for saving people........Part 2
The eight drowned horses are burried at the beginning of the Hollumer dunes, where the lifeboat pulled by 10 bridging horses is being pulled over the dunes.
The inscription on the tombstone reads:
The Windspiel 4 ran aground on August 14, 1979
At the launch of the lifeboat 8 horses drowned.
When the rescue station was alerted by a siren, many residents of the village of Hollum rushed to the beach to watch the performance of the horses and the crew of the lifeboat.
As a result, many where eyewitnesses to the catastrophe that unfolded before their very eyes.
The devastation was enormous and the images of the drowned horses could not be put out of their minds.
The horses are still honored and some lay flowers or oats there.
And every year the lifeboat, pulled by 10 powerful horses, thunders past the grave, on its way to the exercise......
Brave horses who gave their lives for saving people........Part 2
The eight drowned horses are burried at the beginning of the Hollumer dunes, where the lifeboat pulled by 10 bridging horses is being pulled over the dunes.
The inscription on the tombstone reads:
The Windspiel 4 ran aground on August 14, 1979
At the launch of the lifeboat 8 horses drowned.
When the rescue station was alerted by a siren, many residents of the village of Hollum rushed to the beach to watch the performance of the horses and the crew of the lifeboat.
As a result, many where eyewitnesses to the catastrophe that unfolded before their very eyes.
The devastation was enormous and the images of the drowned horses could not be put out of their minds.
The horses are still honored and some lay flowers or oats there.
And every year the lifeboat, pulled by 10 powerful horses, thunders past the grave, on its way to the exercise......