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The vessel Busby, a screw steamer, wrecked on 24 June 1894 on Three Stone Oar (also known as The Wra). The vessel was on its maiden voyage, carrying coal from Newport to Civitavecchia, Rome.

She attempted the rescue Alba Panamanian steamer wrecked at St Ives . The Coxwain Mr Thomas and his son lost their lives

There was never an explanation for the circumstances but the ship was a total wreck

There was never an explanation for the circumstances but the ship was a total wreck

no one knows what happened.

she was thee largest oil tanker in the world at the time (12,350 tons) The crew were rescued by the Lizard lifeboat. She wqs later towed by two tugs to Falmouth harbour

"Distress" aground O N 74.

The Dunboyne was a full-rigged ship built at Whitehaven and launched in March 1888. Now renamed the af Chapman she is still afloat, and is reputedly the World's third oldest surviving iron-built ship (the Euterpe, built in the Isle of Man, is one…

Photograph of the vessel "Earl of Arran", beached on St. Martins, Isles of Scilly. The vessel was operated as a passenger vessel by the West Cornwall Steam Ship Company from 1871-1872 and was wrecked on Nornour on 16th July 1872. Nornour lies to…

"Eureka" Brixham Trawler aground on Larrigan Beach
Registered Number BM 374

"Eureka" Brixham trawler aground on Larrigan Beach
Registered number BM 374

Summer house of Anne Vivian

After leaving Falmouth the ship struck the Runnelstone sustaining serious damage. She was towed to Porthcurno by tug Elliot and Jeffery but soon broke up November 4th 1895

J Hubert Newman, Sydney, Australia

"Lady Of The Isles" Scilly Packet with passengers departing on Penzance Quay.

"Lady of the Isles" the Isles of Scilly Ferry at the Albert Pier Penzance with Chyandour Smelting stacks in the distance. Small sailing vessel in the foreground

Aground in fog at Lamorna Cove.
The stranded passengers had to be ferried off by rowing boat. The ferry was later reflected, but was later sunk by a mine in Falmouth Bay 1939

Built circa 1730 and situated in Belle View, Newlyn. Named after a former resident in the 1960s, artist Frank Dewar an ex Naval Officer, who specialised in paintings of sailing ships. The cottage notably has a ship's figurehead in the front garden.