The Mary Hannah was on passage from Cardiff to Plymouth with a cargo of coal.
Disabled after the main boom was damaged in a huge sea and gale off the Lizard, she headed for Newlyn but was unable to enter the harbour and ran ashore at Tolcarne.…
On October 15th 1889, the miners of St Just awoke to find the Cunarder Malta on the rocks, half a mile east of Cape Cornwall, beneath the Wheal Castle Mine.
The 2,244-ton Malta had been launched in 1865 by G. & J. Thompson of Glasgow for the…