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The Paris left Southampton on 20 May 1899 with 380 passengers and 372 crew and collected a further 50 passengers from Cherbourg, then making passage to New York. The ship diverted to Eddystone and Lizard Lighthouses to get a navigational fix.…

The Paris left Southampton on 20 May 1899 with 380 passengers and 372 crew and collected a further 50 passengers from Cherbourg, then making passage to New York. The ship diverted to Eddystone and Lizard Lighthouses to get a navigational fix.…

The Paris left Southampton on 20 May 1899 with 380 passengers and 372 crew and collected a further 50 passengers from Cherbourg, then making passage to New York. The ship diverted to Eddystone and Lizard Lighthouses to get a navigational fix.…

The 3,534-ton Greek collier Othon Stathatos of Ithaki lurched into St. Ives bows awash after striking the Three Stone Oar in April 1913.

Description from Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The North Coast (London: Pan Books LTD, 1970), p.34.

The 3,534-ton Greek collier Othon Stathatos of Ithaki lurched into St. Ives bows awash after striking the Three Stone Oar in April 1913.

Description from Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The North Coast (London: Pan Books LTD, 1970), p.34.

Wreck of beached SS Ornais II

The 1200 ton collier Ornais II ( France) driven ashore at Perranuthnoe in hurricane-force winds. She was on her way from Le Havre to Port Talbot to pick up coal.

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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

Distant view of the ship, capsized and half-submerged in heavy surf with rocky coastline in background

SS Maoir at Cape Town just before she was wrecked.

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steamship Liberty ( Liberia) hit the rocks under Pendeen Watch while on voyage from Newport to La Goulette. All the crew was saved and the wreck was salvaged. Wikipedia

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I K Brunels Ship Built in Wapping Dock Bristol & floated 19 Jul 1843 She returned for Refit 4 Jul 1970. Postcard of Drawing

PHOTO FROM A POSTCARD OF AN ENGRAVING

Datetree was a brand new British steam collier/cargo ship owned by the Tree Steamship Company. It was only three months old, having been built in early 1914 by the Antwerp Engineering Company.

On June 25, 1914, while carrying a cargo of coal from…

The 1,835 ton- Liverpool Collier County of Salop, Master Evan, was in water ballast from Le Harve to the Mersey before coming ashore at Watson Mouth, at 14:00 pm on March 10th 1892.

The collier, launched at Barrow in 1882, was demolished for…

View of ship from cliff-top with figure being rescued by breeches buoy.

Print damaged at lower left corner.