Survey ship, Jorgen Amundsen on the slip.

Scottish prawn trawler Orion is the latest to make a landing in Newlyn...

while the skipper of the Jorgen Amundsen plans to locate the wreck of cargo vessel MV Mark that sank on the same night as the Penlee Lifeboat Disaster. The MV Mark got into difficulty off Penzance, Cornwall, on the night of 19 December 1981, resulting in six crew losing their lives. The vessel has never been found and identified, although debris was found. Fredrik Lunde says he hopes to find the ship and get more information for the families of its crew. The bulk carrier, loaded with China clay, suffered engine failure and lost contact with the coastguard. Fredrik Lunde became interested in the MV Mark after locals in Penzance told him about it - debris including a lifebelt was washed up, with the belt now hanging on the wall in a local pub, The Dock in Penzance. The sinking happened on the same night the Penlee lifeboat was dispatched to help the Union Star. Newspaper reports at the time pointed out that 22 lives were lost that night - 16 from the Solomon Browne lifeboat and the coaster it had attempted to reach. Fredrik, who has been in Cornwall since April plans to take out his converted Norwegian rescue ship, which he has been turning into a survey vessel, to examine a possible wreck site some 165ft (50m) deep, about seven nautical miles off Penzance...

meanwhile, the Algrie, the first ex-Dutch beam trawler ever brought to Newlyn is one of the remaining three boats now waiting the return of the tug to tow them to Belgium and the scrapyard - end of an era indeed...