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steamer sail ship Aida Lauro ( Italy) on voyage from Liverpool to Hull went aground near Cape Cornwall in dense fog. All seventeen crew saved by the St Ives lifeboat

HMS Warspite (03) was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship launched in 1913. She served in the First World War and in numerous operations in the Second World War, earning the most battle honours of any Royal Navy ship. She ran aground on her way to be…

HMS Warspite (03) was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship launched in 1913. She served in the First World War and in numerous operations in the Second World War, earning the most battle honours of any Royal Navy ship. She ran aground on her way to be…

Wreck off Gurnards Head

HMS Diomedes anchored in Mounts Bay

Eleven years passed, and the tragedy of the Vierge Marie was repeated. Again, it was the usual 'wreck weather' for the western cliffs: hazy with heavy ground seas, the aftermath of a hard south-west gale. Shortly after one o'clock in the morning of…

The salvage boat Barnet ( United Kingdom) standing guard overnight under the Warspite's bows, at Prussia Cove was holed in the engine room, towed off and eventually drifted ashore at Long Rock, a few miles to the west.
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Spanish coaster wrecked at Black Head Rock later drifted to Lowland Point, near Coverack, The Lizard
According to Spanish newspaper report (6th November 1951 - Google translation) " The Spanish ship ran aground on the Cornish coast. The ship began…

King Harry Ferry was being transported back to the River Fal via sea after refit.
Driven ashore by fierce gales.

steamship Liberty ( Liberia) hit the rocks under Pendeen Watch while on voyage from Newport to La Goulette. All the crew was saved and the wreck was salvaged. Wikipedia

HMS Wave broke her moorings in a storm in the early morning hours of 30th September 1952. The crew were evacuated by breeches buoy.

David M was trying to negotiate the River hayle - later refloated

Lowestoft Drifter crew about to be rescued by Penlee lifeboat 1930

The French trawler Vert Prarial had left Brixam at 6pm on the 13th March 1956. Nothing more was heard from her, other than a weak distress signal prefixed by the call sign "Dieppe 1517". At 5.45 am on the 14th the Coastguard received a telephone call…

The 827-ton steam coaster, Yewcroft, bound from the Thames to Bristol with cement, wandered off course in dense fog and grounded near Cudden Point. A few hours later, as the tide ebbed from beneath her, she broke in half.

Description from Richard…

Crabber Pluie de Rose ( France) was wrecked at Trevedran Point, St Loy. The skipper swam ashore to raise the alarm at a farm. Two men were saved by breeches buoy and four men were picked up by the Penlee Lifeboat ( Royal National Lifeboat…

Shortly before 5 am and on November 3rd 1962, the coastguard on watch at Cape Cornwall saw the navigation lights of the 250-ton Dieppe trawler, Jeanne Gougy, about two miles offshore.

She was steering southwards and he was expecting the lights to…

Alacrity bound from Swansea to Belgium with coal ran aground in fog at Portheras Cove, near Pendeen Watch lighthouse. The wreck was later blown apart by explosives in an attempt to break the ship up for scrapping. However, some speculate that the…

The Victoire-Roger Belgian fishing boat's of five crew of wreck at Tallis Zawn were rescued by the Sennen Lifeboat Susan Ashley.

The Juan Ferrer of Valencia was a handsome, well-equipped motor coaster of nearly 700 tons, thrashing her way up towards Land's end on her usual run from her home port of Liverpool.

Owned by Frederick Ferrer of Valencia, the Juan Ferrer was only…