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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 ...
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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).
Eyewitness footage shows the immediate aftermath of a shooting incident in Richmond, Virginia, where a man armed with four handguns killed two people and wounded five others when he fired into a ...
The Camelford water pollution incident involved the accidental contamination of the drinking water supply to the town of Camelford, Cornwall, in July 1988.Twenty tonnes of aluminium sulphate was inadvertently added to the water supply, raising the concentration to 3,000 times the admissible level.
The crew of Algerian corsairs and Turkish soldiers were delighted to find they were wrecked in Cornwall rather than Spain and they were repatriated to Algiers aboard a British warship. [ 28 ] [ 64 ] Davies Gilbert retells a contemporary account from witnesses of the Algerine cosair running aground a little further to the west on the beach ...
After the crash a bus safety training package called Belt Up School Kids (BUSK) for pupils and teachers was established. It comprised safety training, in-class training for pupils, teachers, parents, voluntary personnel, and governors, and driver training, as well as advice to drivers on how to progress towards passenger-carrying vehicle (PCV ...
The new storm culvert joining the River Jordan to the River Valency was at full capacity, but did not flood. Services and organisations called in included: Fire crews from Bude, Delabole and Launceston to pump out the water from properties; Crews to unblock the blocked up drains in the village; The Environment Agency; The Police and Council