Rewind: Maenporth Beach and the shipwreck of the Ben Asdale
By Joseph Macey 16th Sep 2021
By Joseph Macey 16th Sep 2021
This week residents have the chance to see Maenporth Beach and the shipwreck of Ben Asdale in a film from 1979.
A video put together by Geoff Claydon of Memory Media, it shows the shipwreck when it was around a year old.
Ben Asdale was a Scottish trawler that was wrecked in December 1978 near Falmouth, Cornwall.
Heavy winds and snow dragged the boat adrift into the sea after off-loading fish onto a Russian factory ship in Falmouth Bay and it was swept towards Maenporth Beach and collided with rocks.
Eleven people were saved from the incident, but three men (two Britons and a Russian) were drowned.
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