AN AUTHOR will tell her tale of surviving a shipwreck in childhood as part of a fundraising evening.

Ruthie Lockyer, who lives in Ellesmere, will visit Tilstock Bradbury Hall on Wednesday, October 25 for the talk to raise funds for the Whitchurch branch of The League of Friends to The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital.

Ruthie is an artist, published poet, story writer and quiz maker, and will share the film of a dramatic tale of her own childhood experience on The Shipwreck of RMS Hildebrand III.

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A Friends spokesman said: “In 1957, Reverend John Lockyer left Liverpool dock on RMS Hildebrand III with his wife and eight-year-old daughter, Ruthie, bound for Antigua to begin work as a Methodist missionary.

“Disaster struck when the liner ran aground off the coast of Portugal.

“Fifty years later, divers discovered pieces of the wreck on the ocean floor and as information was gleaned from crew members and witnesses – speculations continued about the cause of the demise of a grand liner carrying tourists and freight to the West Indies.”

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The event is at Tilstock Bradbury Village Hall, Crabmill Meadow, Tilstock, Whitchurch SY13 3PL on Wednesday, October 25 2023 at 7pm.

Tickets are £8 to include refreshments in aid of The LoF to RJAH

Author’s books will be available for purchase and can be signed.