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.

Wednesday, 30 November 2011

A close call !

A 3,000-tonne ship has managed to avoid grounding on rocks near Falmouth after its anchor started to drag.  The Cyprus-registered Baltic Sea was heading for rocks at Pennance Point at about 10:30 GMT.
Coastguards said the "visibility was appalling" and a helicopter from RNAS Culdrose on a naval exercise was called to help. But the ship, with eight crew on board, managed to retrieve its anchor and move away from coast.
If the crew had not managed to retrieve the anchor, of course there was no ETV Anglian Princess to give a tow to a big vessel like this - she's up in Scotland now !
Posted by Perranlady at 00:50

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