Fire ship Athena brought into Carrick Roads, Falmouth.

The fire stricken Faoroese trawler, Athena has been given permission to enter the port of Falmouth after safety officers gave her the all-clear following a fire at sea in her box store. Three salvage experts are on board while she is moored on the Crossroads buoy alongside the Anglian Princess, which has moved from her normal station in Mounts Bay to stay clear of the current poor weather. The Athena will move alongside the docks later today weather permitting.

Big freezer trawlers like the Athena use block freezers to freeze the fish they catch in box-sized blocks. The frozen blocks are then put in cardboard boxes made up from on the spot. The fire is thought to have started in the store where thousands of the flat-pack cardboard boxes were stored.