A shepherdess has been told she can keep a £50,000 boat after finding it washed up near her home. Rhoda Munro's ship came in when insurers told her she can have the vessel that disappeared almost a year ago after being swept overboard from a freight ship and presumed sunk.
It had been bobbing about the ocean for almost a year before washing up on a remote shoreline near the hamlet of Ulva Ferry on Mull this March.
Rhoda Munro spotted it as she sailed to a nearby isle to gather sheep near her Scottish island home, the Daily Record reports.
Checks with the coastguard revealed the 25ft boat had been swept overboard in a storm while being transported from a Danish shipyard to a customer in Greenland in April 2019.
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