Title
Swedish barque Hansy wrecked near Penolver, the Lizard 1911.
Subject
Shipwreck
Description
The 1,597-ton steel ship, Hansy, launched at Dumbarton by Alexander Macmillan & Sons in 1885 as the Aberfoyle.
In the course of a somewhat chequered career, she had been picked up in Bass Strait, Tasmania in 1896 by a steamer which had found her crippled and her master and chief officer dead on board. Three years later she was sold to Crawford & Rowath of Glasgow and they, in turn, passed her on to her final owners, Akties Hansy of Frederickstadt in 1910.
The Hansy left Sundsvall, Sweden on October 3rd 1911 with a cargo of timber and pig-iron for Melbourne and after a rough passage down Channel was caught by a hard SSW gale off the Lizard.
While trying to claw off the coast she missed stays in coming about, became trapped in Housel Bay and was wrecked at Carn Table. The crew were rescued by breeches-buoy from the shore and the master, Captain Kiltvo, and the mate were later taken off by the lifeboat.
Two days later, when the weather had moderated and a salvage party were able to board the wreck, they found a pig feasting on potatoes in what remained of the crew's quarters, while two goats eyed them amiably form the comfort of a bunk. For weeks after the stranding, great quantities of timber were washed out of the wreck and thankfully collected by the local fishing boats.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971),p.127-128.
In the course of a somewhat chequered career, she had been picked up in Bass Strait, Tasmania in 1896 by a steamer which had found her crippled and her master and chief officer dead on board. Three years later she was sold to Crawford & Rowath of Glasgow and they, in turn, passed her on to her final owners, Akties Hansy of Frederickstadt in 1910.
The Hansy left Sundsvall, Sweden on October 3rd 1911 with a cargo of timber and pig-iron for Melbourne and after a rough passage down Channel was caught by a hard SSW gale off the Lizard.
While trying to claw off the coast she missed stays in coming about, became trapped in Housel Bay and was wrecked at Carn Table. The crew were rescued by breeches-buoy from the shore and the master, Captain Kiltvo, and the mate were later taken off by the lifeboat.
Two days later, when the weather had moderated and a salvage party were able to board the wreck, they found a pig feasting on potatoes in what remained of the crew's quarters, while two goats eyed them amiably form the comfort of a bunk. For weeks after the stranding, great quantities of timber were washed out of the wreck and thankfully collected by the local fishing boats.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971),p.127-128.
Creator
Gibson
Date
1911-11-03
Rights
Morrab library
Format
Print
Identifier
RGN.096
Coverage
Penolver, Lizard
Physical Dimensions
8" x 11"