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Near the south coast of Cornwall, 8 miles (13 km) east of the Wolf Rock, the ship's engines failed. [3] The crew was unable to restart them but did not make a mayday call. [2] Assistance was offered by a tug, the Noord Holland, under the Lloyd's Open Form salvage contract; Morton initially refused the offer, but accepted after consulting his ...
The accident occurred when the pilot turned off the plane's engine during a roll, and the plane did not regain altitude. [116] [117] July 31 – A Hawker Sea Fury crash landed while performing the penultimate display at the Culdrose Air Day, held at RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall, UK. During the performance, the plane experienced significant engine ...
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MV Darlwyne, photographed in early 1966, before the structural alterations that replaced the aft cabin with an open cockpit.. MV Darlwyne [n 1] was a pleasure cruiser, a converted Royal Navy picket boat, that disappeared off the Cornish coast on 31 July 1966 with its complement of thirty-one (two crew and twenty-nine passengers, including eight children).
This was the second accident that 158824 had been involved in. In July 2008, it collided with a vehicle on a level crossing between Shrewsbury and Wrexham General. Repairs to the unit took seven months to complete. [19] The crash was the first collision between passenger trains in Wales since the Severn Tunnel rail accident in 1991. [20]
19 January – St Anthony or Santo António ( Portugal) was a carrack which foundered in Gunwalloe Bay, Cornwall, in 1527 en–route from Lisbon to Antwerp. She had a mixed cargo including copper and silver ingots, said to be worth an estimated £100 million in today's values.
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On Sunday, 179 people were killed as a plane touched down in South Korea, making it the deadliest plane crash in South Korea's history. Two of the six Jeju Air crew members are the only survivors ...