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| Ship runs aground near Cornwall's Pendeen lighthouse | Ship runs aground near Cornwall's Pendeen lighthouse |
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| A Dutch container ship has freed itself after running aground off the coast of west Cornwall. | |
| The 9,000-tonne Karin Schepers ran aground on a beach east of the Pendeen lighthouse, near St Just, at about 04:45 BST, coastguards said. | |
| The vessel, with 13 crew on board, was sailing from Cork in the Republic of Ireland to Rotterdam in the Netherlands. It has resumed its course. | The vessel, with 13 crew on board, was sailing from Cork in the Republic of Ireland to Rotterdam in the Netherlands. It has resumed its course. |
| Police and coastguard search teams were called in to assist. | Police and coastguard search teams were called in to assist. |
| A rescue helicopter from RNAS Culdrose was also sent to the scene, arriving at about 05:10. | |
| But by the time it had arrived, the ship's crew had managed to get the vessel free from the sand. | |
| No mayday | |
| A member of the helicopter crew was winched on to the vessel to ascertain the condition of the vessel and its crew. Those onboard were found to be uninjured. | |
| Steve Huxley, of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, said it was "extremely lucky" that the vessel managed to get off the sand "very, very quickly". | |
| He said that before the grounding the vessel had been recorded heading to land at about 17 or 18 knots, but that it did not send out a mayday or make any emergency radio call. | |
| He said: "At this stage we're not sure why the ship ran aground. | |
| "It could have been very nasty, but there was no pollution whatsoever; and we had a report from the vessel afterwards reporting it was fully seaworthy." |