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The Eureka was a Brigham fishing vessel that wrecked on the rocks of Larrigan Beach in May 6th 1934.

The trawler, Registered Number BM 374, broke loose her Anchor in Newlyn Harbour coming ashore by the Bolitho Gardens, Lariggan Penzance.
The…

Eri, the English Schooner, wrecked on White Island on St Martins, Isles of Scilly, 1869.

On September 11 1903, the Hayle Lifeboat crew had a dangerous and unnecessary trip out to the derelict Beaumaris schooner Enterprise.

The Enterprise [Enterprize] (1846) was bound from Charlestown, USA, to Manchester with a cargo of china clay when…

The Empire Grove was a 320-ton Liverpool coaster, lost on her maiden voyage from Hayle to Llanelly in fog on October 18th 1941.

Description from Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The North Coast (London: Penn Ltd, 1970), p.166.

Previously known as 'Worthsee Brake'

The Liverpool coaster, the 333-ton Eilianus, steamed into a large reef during the fog of June 1936. Launched in Holland in 1917 as the Wyke Regis, she left Blyth on June 2nd, discharged coal at Dunkirk and proceeded to Le Havre, loading 800 tons of…

The Earl of Lonsdale, a steamer, was carrying beans and cotton seed from Alexandria to Portishead. . Owned by Thomas G. Dunford of Newcastle. The vessel was 1,543 tons gross and was built in North Shields, North Tyneside in 1872

The Earl of…

The Auxiliary packet Earl of Arran ran ashore on Irishman's ledge on the July 16 1872. Built in Paisley in 1860 for the Ardrossen to Arran passenger run, the Earl of Arran served in the Clyde from 1860 until 1868, when she worked excursions between…

Became a total wreck 27 -08-1934
Picture is printed the wrong way round - negative incorrect.

Print of an illustration.

Shipwreck on Hayle Bar

Stranded near estuary, left as derelict. Ex-Rosebud.

The Cromdale came ashore at at Bass Point, after a one hundred and twenty-dour day journey from Taltal, Chile with a cargo of Nitrates. She was already a week overdue at Falmouth when, nearing the Lizard, she ran into dense fog on the evening of May…

The Cragoswald of Newcastle was a 2,085-ton Steamer. She had sailed from Barry in the early house of April 28th 1911, bound for Venice with 4,800 tons of coal, but when twelve hours out her chief engineer was taken seriously ill and Captain Albert…