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GPS positioning proves perfect for Haiti
10:52am Wednesday 17th March 2010
RFA Largs Bay, one of the so-called cluster ships using Falmouth docks as a base repair port, has completed her second assignment distributing food aid in Haiti since discharging her cargo at Port-au-Prince in February.
Mission’s coffee date
10:40am Wednesday 17th March 2010
FALMOUTH’S Mission to Seafarers will be holding a coffee morning and sale on Saturday (March 20) at the Laburnum Hall, Laburnum Drive, from 10am until noon.
Buoying up wave energy
10:42am Wednesday 17th March 2010
CORNWALL’S ambition to become a world-leading centre for wave energy has moved a step closer to reality with the launch of a two-tonne buoy off the coast of Falmouth.
Lift Ship, Falcon
10:45am Wednesday 17th March 2010
THE semi-submersible heavy lift ship Falcon was seen bunkering in the Crossroads last week.
Black Rock gig latest
10:36am Wednesday 17th March 2010
IN a boatyard located in the tiny hamlet of Portlooe, near Looe, I found gig builder Dave Currah, who is currently building Falmouth Gig Club’s new boat Black Rock.
Harbour boat for sale
10:38am Wednesday 17th March 2010
TRURO Harbour Authority is planning to replace its existing harbour boat and has offered the Cornwall Sea Fisheries Committee the opportunity to buy the vessel.
Deep water = deep pockets
10:12am Wednesday 10th March 2010
In a month’s time Princess Cruises’ 109,000-ton Grand Princess sails from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on her transatlantic repositioning cruise to Europe.
Heavy weather holds up Longbow’s arrival
10:13am Wednesday 10th March 2010
The missile-testing barge Longbow, currently en route from Toulon to Falmouth under tow of the Panamanian tug Ionion Pelagos, has been forced to seek shelter off the Spanish coast due to heavy weather conditions in the Bay of Biscay.
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