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Maipu, Hell Bay, Isles of Scilly, 1879
The Liverpool barque, Maipu, was the largest sailing sailing shipped (being 594 tons gross) wrecked in Hell Bay. The Maipu was bound from Inquique, Chile, to Hamburg with a valuable cargo of saltpetre, she went ashore only a few hours prior to River…
Bessie, Liverpool Steam Collier, wrecked at Carbis Bay, Novemebr 18th 1893.
Bessie was on passage from Cardiff to Portland with a cargo of coal, when it became caught in a gale on the night of 18 November 1893. Bessie hit the western side of the Hayle Estuary and fortunately floated off and was carried by the wind and tide…
Dandy Alliance and schooner Golden Light driving ashore near Penzance, 7 or 8 Dec. 1886
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Alliance and Golden Light ashore at Penzance, 1886
The ketch Alliance and Schooner Golden light were driven ashore at Chyandour on December 7th 1886. Both were from Penzance.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles,…
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles,…
SS Serica wrecked off St. Mary's, 1893
The Serica, a fine steel screw, schooner-rigged steamer of 1,736 tons register. Her last voyage began at Cardiff on November 16th 1893, when she sailed for Port Said with a crew of twenty-five and a cargo of coal.
Bad weather was encountered the…
Bad weather was encountered the…
Busby, wrecked at Pendeen on June 23nd 1894.
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SS Saintonge stranded off Boskenna, 1895
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SS Leputa ashore off Battery rocks, Penzance, 1895
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Paknam, Dutch Steamer wrecked at Pendeen, May 13th 1895.
On May 13th 1895, the 200-ton steel river steamer Paknam, Affray master.
Three days from the Clyde on her maiden voyage to Le Havre, then to French Tonkin, was wrecked in fog under Greeb Point.
Description from Clive Carter, Cornish…
Three days from the Clyde on her maiden voyage to Le Havre, then to French Tonkin, was wrecked in fog under Greeb Point.
Description from Clive Carter, Cornish…
Alexander Yeats stranded at Gurnard's Head, September 25th 1896
The largest sailing ship lost anywhere between Land's End and St Ives was the Liverpool ship Alexander Yeats, launched in 1876 by D. Lynch of Portland, New Brunswick, as a wooden full-rigger of 1,589 tons.
Towards the end of her career she was…
Towards the end of her career she was…
Abernyte, Iron barque, Kynance, May 8th 1898
The Abernyte was a 700-ton Glasgow iron barque. The master of the ship was Master Cardwell.
She wrecked on course from Caleta Buena to Falmouth with nitrates under Rill Head on May 8th 1898. Her crew rowed seawards, leaving the barque slowly…
She wrecked on course from Caleta Buena to Falmouth with nitrates under Rill Head on May 8th 1898. Her crew rowed seawards, leaving the barque slowly…
SS Mohegan
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Bluejacket stranded on Longships, November 9th 1898.
The Cardiff tramp, Bluejacket, struck the rocks sixty feet from the main door of the Longship Lighthouse on November 9th 1898. The wreck came at the end of a long tramping voyage which began on June 4th, under the command of Captain James Thomas,…
SS Paris, Wrecked at Coverack on May 21st 1899.
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Llandaff near Lands End, 1889
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