I think this was raw footage that might have been subsequently edited for a new story.
On 3 August 1981 the Prince Ivanhoe began a pleasure trip starting at Penarth with stops at Minehead and Mumbles and then a cruise along the Gower coast. By the time she left Mumbles she had 450 passengers on board.
She navigated close to the shore around Oxwich Point into Port Eynon Bay at 15:35. Whilst emerging from this bay she hit a submerged object, probably rocks or a wreck, tearing a 60-foot (18 m) gash in her hull. Realising that she was sinking her captain, David Neill, sailed her about one mile (1.6 km) to Horton, Swansea where she was beached.
An RAF air-sea rescue helicopter and RNLI lifeboats from Horton, Port Eynon and Mumbles went to her assistance and all of the passengers were saved, mainly by being ferried to the shore in lifeboats.
The wrecked ship then remained where it had come to rest. There were several salvage attempts, which had varying degrees of success, and the hull was finally removed in July and August of 1984.
Негізгі бет Ойын-сауық Prince Ivanhoe sinking 1981
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