Not Tactical…
(A wreck seen on Mousehole’s sea-front, January 2002…)
Grey and tinged on the horizon
With military blue,
The sea snarled across rocks
Like a rabble in battle.
Oblivious, it twisted and writhed
To reach the rusting hull
And buffet the shell
Like the bones of mariners to make her rattle…
Pete Ray
On watching the Mousehole tide lash at the remains of a wreck, just offshore…
On 29th December 2000, the Dutch owned ‘DOLFYN’, a vessel on cable guard duty, protecting
telecommunications cables from trawlers, ran aground off Carn Topna beach in Mousehole…
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