Elusive tombs

On the trail of two burial sites about a mile apart.

Above, the ancient stone vault (thumbnailed) is called an east-fast burial chamber meaning thst the massive table-like capstone is not raised up on pedestals but simply propped by a single upright that has been doing its job for many thousands of years. The other end is lodged in the ground. Opinions differ as to whether it would once have been covered over  but either way its location on the northern slope of the hill called Garnwnda  commands a panoramic view of the Pencaer peninsula with the ancient fortress of Garn Fawr and the vanishing point of Strumble Head to the west. The hamlet of Llanwnda below (its holy well recently blipped) and to the north just sea.

(Although in such an obvious-seeming location the tomb can be hard to spot unless one finds the right path through the bracken. Some of the tumbled rocks in the vicinity could act as pointers - or not.)

The sea was the watery tomb of 28 souls lost in the wartime bombing of the St Patrick ferry in June 1941. Hit amidship by a stick of four Luftwaffe bombs she sank in minutes in the summer dawn, already in sight of Strumble Head and 12 miles from Fishguard. The captain and senior officers gone, the remaining crew performed heroically to rescue  the surviving passengers. Three were  awarded medals for gallantry, the chief among them being Elizabeth May Owen a 41 year stewardess. She ushered  the women and children up from the bowels of the sinking ship, returning more than once to assist them, then supported two of them in the water for hours until picked up by a rescue vessel. She got the George Medal - but, returning to her job and her modest lifestyle in nearby Goodwick, few were aware of her heroic act. I've been looking for her gravestone and eventually found it in an isolated cemetery above the town. She's buried with her parents under her married name Elizabeth Ma(r)y Pearce followed by the small initial G.M. 
Fittingly her grave is close by the northern boundary of the burial ground - beyond it is the sea.