PERRANUTHNOE is a small village on the South Coast of Cornwall, just East of Marazion, there is a Car Park and sloping access to a safe sandy beach and the beachside Cabin Cafe. It has The Victoria Inn a superb multi award winning pub, which serves super food both lunchtimes & evenings, - a Church dating back as far as 1160. The Lynfield Centre which houses The Cowhouse Gallery, The Peppercorn Cafe and a hairdressers.

Thursday, 4 February 2010

Ferry Oscar Wilde on Tuesday Night

This is one of the Irish Ferries that come past us several times a week
A photo from the Falmouth Packet paper, (taken from RNLI lifeboat)showing the Ireland to France ferry Oscar Wilde on fire only hours after leaving Falmouth Dry Dock after undergoing a refit. Firefighters were airlifted by helicopter to a passenger ferry ablaze in the sea three miles of Falmouth on Tuesday night, with 113 people on board.
Co-ordinated by Falmouth coastguards, helicopters from RNAS Culdrose carried the specialist firefighters from the Marine Incident Response Group to the burning Oscar Wilde, which had no passengers onboard but a large crew.
Once onboard the ferry, the firefighters went straight to the engine room, where the blaze had been kept contained by the ferry’s crewmembers.
Volunteer lifeboat crews from the Falmouth and Lizard lifeboat stations were also launched and they stood by alongside the coastguard tug the Anglian Princess and three harbour tugs from Falmouth until it was clear the ferry’s crew were safe and no equipment needed to be evacuated.
The ferry was brought into Falmouth yesterday morning, so that firefighters could inspect it.
Posted by Perranlady at 10:19

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