Down to the last few timbers and an interesting find from the splintered timber frames.

But first, the first sighting of an entirely new sport - wind skateboarding - ever inventive, but just who is the mystery skater on the prom?

Sunday and Monday saw Trewarveneth reduced to a small pile of smashed timbers.

Just the keel remains largely in one piece.



Breaking up the frames.

Concrete ballast was difficult to remove from between the bilge area of the engine and fishroom frames.


Loading the lorry with pieces of the hull.

Looking down the length of the remaining keel.

The huge stern post remains intact.

One way to move a skip.

Almost at the accommodation bulkhead.

'Maverick' secures a full load of boat timber.

Breaking up the remaining engine room bilges.

One of the engine beds, they came out in one piece.

All that remained on Sunday morning, the stern section containing the accommodation.

'Mav' supervises from the back of the lorry.

Among the smashed bow frames in the bilges, a mystery coin. Was this coin, a 1905 penny (perhaps the year the boatbuilder was born) placed there for luck, a common practice? If the penny had dropped in the bilge it would surely have corroded completely and been worn smooth over the years. Either way, the coin will be a suitable memento of time spent with the vessel for one ex-skipper.

Berthed near the Cornish Ice Company, the Bryan D Stevenson is the next boat in the fleet due to go under the breakers torch.

Breaking news

As the family firm, W Stevenson & Sons face 37 charges involving the handling of illegal fish at the port, one of their oldest trawlers, PZ196 Trewarveneth enters the final stages of her life in the port - under the breaker's hydraulic grabs.

If you get the chance when visiting the port, there are a number of ceramic tile pictures depicting boats on the sides of buildings owned by the family firm. Here is the Trewarveneth, captured by the artist in her hayday as a sidewinder trawler.The breakers were down to ripping out the fishroom by Saturday.





Lending Clive a hand to fill the bucket, labourer Mac lends a hand.
View from all that remains of the forefoot.
Ripping out the formeost section of the keel.

Mojo Marine's Mac Johns takes a break from labouring to inspect the curious purple discolouration of the oak timbers.

On a misty morning, Z198 Kees Korf first time visit and landing.

No clear sky this morning as the sun rises over the art deco Jubilee pool in Penzance.

The Trewarveneth awaits the breakers.
Z198, Kees Korf is in Newlyn for the first time visit and landing. The crew are from Urk and the vessel is named after a young fisherman who was lost at sea some years ago.

In for the kill

The Trewarventh - framed by the jaws of destruction.
As high water approaches, her fishroom now fills with water.

Two excavators wait for low water before they will begin the breaking process.

Up and over the spring tide

Skipper Sahun Edwards and crew watch another load of boxes on their way to the back of waiting transport aboard the Nova Spero.
St Ives registered Crystal Sea against the quay sporting new anodes.
Astern of the breaking Trewarveneth, Grimmy Mike heads off back to tier after landing
Crabbers, netters and an inshore trawler at the fish market.

The Trewarveneth has now moved to her final berth at the foot of the slip known as the 'canners slip' (after Conrwall Canners that used to be in the building opposite - they canned Pilchards for Shiphams). She will now be broken up with a JCB.