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Saturday, 12 March 2011

ipadio: Ben My Chree sinks - First hand report from St Piran skipper, Shane Liddicoat aboard the St Piran.


Shane Liddicoat, skipper of the St Piran gives an interview via phone from the wheelhouse a short time after the Ben My Chree sank off Carn Base between Land's End and Gwennap Head.
Shane Liddicoat heads the CSF's St Piran towards the gaps.

In better days - Ben My Chree steaming in to pick up the lazy deckie when pair trawling with the Keriolet in the 1980s.
The gill netter Ben My Chree was brought to Newlyn in 1978 from St Guenole in Brittany and fished by the Hicks family under skipper Steven and his brother Jonathon. She trawled for many years, including a short, but eventful, period when she went pair trawling with the Keriolet, another ex-French trawler.

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