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11:36am Thursday 4th September 2008
IT is nearly 55 years since the Lamport & Holt Line Motor Vessel "RAEBURN"
collided with the Monkstone Lighthouse, off Penarth seafront.
On the Thursday Penarth residents woke up to find the vessel stranded and it was not until four days later that she was refloated. She, apparently, had general cargo on board including 5,000 tons of coal.
Of 8,311 gross registered tonnage she was so firmly affixed amidships that plans were being made to lighten her but on the Monday, helped by the rising tides, she was refloated.
Badly damaged and taking in water, she was towed to Dry Dock in Cardiff.
The two tugs in the photograph were, so far as I can recollect, "Loyal Briton" and "Standard Rose."
I never heard who was finally blamed for the extraordinary accident.
Edward Granger Address supplied
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