The trawler is aground at Bass Point, The Lizard.
The crew of 29 were saved but the ship's cat was marooned aboard for two days then saved by a local fishing boat.
The Belgian Motor trawler, Vierge Marie of Ostend was a 200 ton vessel. She was on her way into Newlyn after developing engine trouble off Pendeen the previous afternoon, and there had been no warning of how close the weather had brought her to the…