Title
Socoa from Bayonne, French full-rigged ship that wrecked on Craggan rock, Cadgwith, July 31st 1906
Subject
Shipwreck
Description
The Steel masted, Socoa, of Bayonne stranded near Cadgwith in thick weather while on passage from Stettin to San Francisco.
She was carrying cement intended for the rebuilding of that earthquake-shattered city and 50,000 barrels of it had to be jettisoned before she could be reflected. Later re-names the 'Theirs' she surveyed another twenty-one years before being broken up.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p. 126.
She was carrying cement intended for the rebuilding of that earthquake-shattered city and 50,000 barrels of it had to be jettisoned before she could be reflected. Later re-names the 'Theirs' she surveyed another twenty-one years before being broken up.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p. 126.
Creator
Gibson
Date
1906-08-01
Rights
Morrab library
Format
Print
Identifier
RGN.071
Coverage
Craggan rock, Cadgwith