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Kootenay Lakes Nelson Canada

Our Wee cottage in Nelson The Ranch House

The Bideford ketch Cecilia became the last sailing ship to be wrecked in St. Ives Bay. Manned by Captain Frederick Bennett of Ilfracombe, and his sons John and Arthur, she broke loose while discharging coal from Lydney alongside Smeatons Pier during…

Woman with dog

SS Mina Cantiquin, Spanish Carho ship built 1906 ran aground in a storm at Black Head Rock near Coverack

17 crew members were saved by a British ship

Babs

A view from our Ranche House

The Lakes Nelson Canada

British steam cargo ship. Built 1913 by Smith's Dock Co Ltd Middlesbrough. Ran aground off Cape Cornwall

On March 4th 1932, the steamer Ocklinge was lost in the same place as the French Collier Gap, as there seemed no reason of weather or visibility for her to have got so far off course.

She had been towed into Falmouth early the same day by the…

The Belgian motor trawler Omer Denise went ashore on the opposite side of the Coverack Bay, at Perprean Cove. She was found next morning, stern first on the rocks, abandoned but with her engine still running. She broke up where she lay and her crew…

Reading Room and Stocks Looe.
A pair of Stocks are set into the gable above the entrance.

Old Cross on St Michael's Mount

The Megalithic Portal (megalithic.co.uk) gives a grid reference of SW 514 298 and says it is on the edge of the cliff, below the castle, on the south side of the island.

Looking for Cowrie Shells

St Mabe Church

Grid reference, SW7574 3247

For further information see Historic Environment Record, https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MCO6372&resourceID=1020

Rough seas breaking over the harbour wall

St Ives Fish Wife

Curley

Woodbury