Bulk carrier, Kuzma Minin has run aground off Falmouth's Gyllyngvase beach.

An incredible sight here at Gylly beach in #Falmouth where a huge cargo ship has run aground. Updates at @CornwallLive pic.twitter.com/lJUKmp9Zul

— Graeme Wilkinson (@Graemewilki) December 18, 2018

VesselTracker's AIS app shows how southerly winds up to 60 mph have forced the 183m long Russian bulk carrier Kuzma Manin to drag her anchor off Gyllyngvase Beach at Falmouth in the early hours of this morning...

the huge carrier is lying beam on this hugely popular summer beach... 

with the Falmouth lifeboat Richard Cox Scott and the Falmouth harbour tug, St Piran are in attendance.  With no big rescue tug stationed in this part of the UK the local Falmouth tugs will be faced with a huge challenge to re-float the ship at high water, around 13:10 this afternoon.

The Kuzma Manin had recently sailed from the Dutch port heading west.

In September earlier this year 20 Russian crew members were stranded since May 15, 2018, on the Kuzma Minin in the Dutch bulk port of Terneuzen because the shipping company could not meet its payment obligations. The crew could not disembark, because they would then have to renounce their wages and other schemes. The Ferns Centre Foundation has decided to organize a fundraising campaign, because the crew has been left to its fate and has not had fresh fruit for months, almost no money and also needed all kinds of products. They have to pay their contract or they will no longer receive any wages. The shipping company already has several ships under detention due to major financial problems. A collection for the crew started on Sep 24. There were already two bags with groceries ready to be brought on board.

The Sevenstones Lightship off Lands End has seen the southerly winds steadily increase to nearly 50 knots in the last few hours - the worst possible wind direction for a casualty on the south facing coast of Cornwall.
 

And it's not looking too cracky here off Newlyn on the webcam this morning either!

Successfully re-floated in the afternoon - a satisfactory outcome and a credit to all those involved in challenging conditions.

It's time to switch on Newlyn Lights this Friday!

Fire up the reindeers and come on down to the harbour for this year's awesome Newlyn Harbour Lights switch-on which starts at 6pm! 

After Penlee Lifeboat delivers Santa safely to the quay all children will be given a free a raffle ticket then Father Christmas will pick the winning ticket and that winning ticket will get to turn all the lights on!

Before and after the Carols there will be plenty of drinks and mince pies galore!

Lifeboat visitors in Newlyn as sparks fly on the Billy Rowney.

Dunmore East Lifeboat 14-17 Elizabeth and Ronald her escort, the Severn class all-weather lifeboat Volunteer Spirit 17-27.  Dunmore East All-Weather Trent class RNLI Lifeboat 14-17, Elizabeth and Ronald departed Dunmore East harbour, possibly for the last time on Tuesday. Late last year she sustained damage whilst tied up in the harbour. Now with a temporary repair complete, and escorted by a relief Severn Class lifeboat with a crew from Torbay Lifeboat, she is bound for Falmouth to be fully accessed. Elizabeth and Ronald has been on service in Dunmore East since 1996, with many lifesaving missions completed in that time...

landing er fish in to the back of a waiting lorry Brixham bound...

BM201, Chloe Olivia enjoys an evening in Newlyn...

the pots are ready for the latest Rowse crabber to join the fleet...

while over the other side of the Mary Williams pier engineers from A&P make sparks fly deep inside the winchroom casing...

where every available surface has been covered to prevent the flying sparks igniting the grease laden gear...

looks like there's plenty of steel waiting to go aboard!

Penlee lifeboat nightime shout.

With westerly force 7 winds gusting 8 in the squalls, coming alongside the stricken inshore boat, Bonnie Grace, and the crew of the Ivan Ellen make the boat fast to the side of the lifeboat before...

bringing her in through the gaps...

and berthing her alongside the quay. With the somewhat unsocial hour of the callout, no doubt there was a little light-hearted banter between the fishing vessel skipper under tow, a regular member of the lifeboat crew and Patch in the lifeboat!

Penlee and Sennen lifeboats off Porthcurno caught on the Minack webcam!

Both @Penleelifeboat and Sennen were called out along with the SAR helicopter from Newquay...

and were caught on camera by the Minack Theatre webcam!

Search goes on for the missing inshore scalloper JMT.

The inshore scalloper JMT is currently missing with two people on board. 

Fowey lifeboat has joined Looe and Plymouth lifeboats currently engaged in a rigorous search of the area based on an estimated position between Looe and Rame Head.

Penlee's Ivan Ellen out on a shout video.

This morning's shout and the route taken by Penlee lifeboat.

Penlee lifeboat Ivan Ellen on a shout captured as she leaves Newlyn  - it's  a bit fresh out there this morning as she rushes to pick up a yacht in distress.

Penlee's Ivan Ellen out on an early Sunday morning shout and tow job!

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Brixham beam trawler Kerrie Marie comes tight on the tow line form the Ivan Ellen...

as she made a dash some twenty miles south of Newlyn at just gone 6am this morning....

and dropped off the causality at the end of the New Quay.

Penlee lifeboat out on a shout

Waiting for the tide to drop...

two beamers on this morning's market...

the William's big shot, unusual to see that many JDs at this time of year...

the stuff of nightmares....

and a distant cousin...

of the salmon...

it's that time of year when many fish are full of roe...

but which fish is this?...

with one eye on the auctioneer...

buying gold on the market...

and more top quality fish...

ready to go...

making tracks for the transport network...

the IRB is first away as the lifeboats get a call...

to go out on a shout - La Mouette or Molly May as she is now known had been taken to Mousehole Island by the skipper to sort a problem with her rudder when she drifted away and left the skipper stranded...

 the IRB picked up the red-faced skipper...

and the Ivan Ellen towed his boat back to Newlyn...

all quiet on the Admiral Gordon this morning.

Penlee 33 years ago.

Twelve hours after the Penlee lifeboat was lost the Nelwyn trawler Fern under skipper Alan Goddard searches for any signs of survivors off Tater Dhu alongside the St Mary's lifeboat and Rescue 192 from Culdrose.