The 24m Belgian beam trawler Sylvia Mary Z525 has sunk off Gwennap Head...
while steaming from her home port of Zeebrugge she called in to Oostende...
after hitting the Runnelstone Reef, a notorious rocky reef...
there's a bit of a break in her AIS after she passed the Lizard until the point of contact with the reef...
the extent of which can be added which can seen on the nautical chart...
marked by the Runnelstone Buoy...
as she was steaming to the Dover sole fishing grounds in the Bristol Channel...
from her home port of Zeebrugge...
The 24-metre fishing vessel struck rocks about off Porthgwarra but the four crew onboard has been safely rescued from a liferaft the Sennan Cove RNLI Lifeboat brought them to dryland at Newlyn.
Two other Belgian beam-trawlers, the Albert Bos Z-41 and the Grietje Z-187 were in the vicinity at the time of the incident.
In a statement, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said:
“Four crew from a fishing vessel which struck rocks at Lands’ End have just been rescued and are on a lifeboat on their way back to shore. The crew made a mayday broadcast and abandoned their vessel earlier this evening, taking to their liferaft from which they were rescued by lifeboat just a short time later. The Sennen all-weather RNLI lifeboat was requested to launch by HM Coastguard and a Coastguard and a Royal Navy helicopter also assisted at the scene.
“All crew have been accounted for and are safe and well. The fishing vessel remains on scene.”
