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The Alexander Yeats (1876) was wrecked on voyage from Savannah, USA to Devonport Dockyard, via Holyhead, with a cargo of deals and pitch pine on 25 September 1896. The ship went aground on the east side of Gurnard's Head, swinging broadside into the…

Busby left Newport on its maiden voyage for Civita Vecchia on 22 June with a cargo of 4,600 tons of coal and 26 crew. It ran aground on 24 June 1894 in thick fog. However, after the cargo was removed, and pumps installed the ship was refloated, only…

Busby left Newport on its maiden voyage for Civita Vecchia on 22 June with a cargo of 4,600 tons of coal and 26 crew. It ran aground on 24 June 1894 in thick fog. However, after the cargo was removed, and pumps installed the ship was refloated, only…

Postcard of an etching of 'The Nile' . Wrecked off Godrevy Point partially responsible for a campaign to instal a lighthouse on Godrevy
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The Nile, an iron-hulled screw steamer, was built at Dumbarton in 1850. She was first…

Watson class lifeboat Susan Ashley, the first lifeboat to have a superstructure made out of aluminium and one of thirteen 41ft Watson class boats designed for slipway launching. Susan Ashley saved 67 lives during her service at Sennen Cove in…

Brixham Fishing boat Provider beached at Marazion in 1904

SS Blue Jacket ran around at longships.
Following account taken from Penwith Local History GroupThe last cargo of the long passage – railway sleepers from Danzig – is safely landed at Plymouth. It should be an easy trip for the Blue Jacket, round…

The Tripolitania was on passage from Genoa to Barry in ballast when it was hit by a gale and heavy weather, which drove it ashore onto the Loe Bar. The 27 crew and captain were rescued except for one who drowned. Despite attempts to refloat her by…

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The steamer SOUTH AMERICA, bound from Hamburg to Cardiff, in ballast, went ashore in…

Fishing boat build 1913 owned by W Harvey registered n Lowestoft under LT706 wrecked near Penzance.
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Anyone looking for something a bit out of the ordinary on the weekend of 30/31 March 1930 got a bit of a treat at Porth Nanven. Washed ashore on Saturday 30th was the British World War One submarine L1. The Cornishman reported that the vessel was…

'Our Lizzy PZ109 a 1st class lugger of 51 foot and 26 tons owned by Richard Worth was rammed by the Water Lily PZ146 a 1st class lugger of 38.6 foot and 18 tons owned by Richard Nicholls and Alex Bond. Our Lizzy sank off Penlee Point at 0300 hours…

Wreck of beached SS Ornais II

The 1200 ton collier Ornais II ( France) driven ashore at Perranuthnoe in hurricane-force winds. She was on her way from Le Havre to Port Talbot to pick up coal.

Lyminge ( United Kingdom) ran aground on Ebal Rocks off Gurnard's Head. The crew and passengers rowed ashore, the ship's cat was rescued later.

Wreck of Glamorgan Coast.
Glamorgan Coast ( United Kingdom) on voyage from Bristol to Penzance grounded in fog near Cape Cornwall. The fourteen crew and one passenger rowed ashore to safety.

American Steamer, Crew of 33 and the ships cat all saved

Wreck of Tay Craig
Nine sailors were saved on a stormy day when a steamer floundered on rocks just off Penzance. It was exactly 87 years ago, in the early hours of the morning that the Taycraig, a Cornish owned but London registered steamer came a…