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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

HMS Wave broke her moorings in a storm in the early morning hours of 30th September 1952. The crew were evacuated by breeches buoy.

David M was trying to negotiate the River hayle - later refloated

Lowestoft Drifter crew about to be rescued by Penlee lifeboat 1930

The French trawler Vert Prarial had left Brixam at 6pm on the 13th March 1956. Nothing more was heard from her, other than a weak distress signal prefixed by the call sign "Dieppe 1517". At 5.45 am on the 14th the Coastguard received a telephone call…

The 827-ton steamship stranded in dense fog on the rocks of Trevean Cove, while carrying cement between Cliffe and Bristol. The captain believed he was near the Brisons at Cape Cornwall. Wikipedia

Crabber Pluie de Rose ( France) was wrecked at Trevedran Point, St Loy. The skipper swam ashore to raise the alarm at a farm. Two men were saved by breeches buoy and four men were picked up by the Penlee Lifeboat ( Royal National Lifeboat…

Dieppe trawler Jeanne Gougy ( France) wrecked on Dr Syntax's Head, Land's End. The crew were trapped in an air pocket in the wheelhouse for six hours until low tide when they were rescued by the Life Saving Apparatus and Whirlwind Helicopter. Of the…

Alacrity bound from Swansea to Belgium with coal ran aground in fog at Portheras Cove, near Pendeen Watch lighthouse. The wreck was later blown apart by explosives in an attempt to break the ship up for scrapping. However, some speculate that the…

The Victoire-Roger Belgian fishing boat's of five crew of wreck at Tallis Zawn were rescued by the Sennen Lifeboat Susan Ashley.

Crowd viewing the smoke rising from the bombing of the Torry Canyon Wreck

Ex Admiralty Barge Pinnace on Battery Rocks

M.V. Romeo from Copenhagen aground in Hayle Estuary

Swedish Barge blown ashore after tow rope broke refloated towed to Falmouth

The crew of trawler La Varenne ( France) of Cherbourg were attempting to abandon ship after she went into a small cove at Land's End. Eight men were picked up by the Sennen Cove lifeboat

Barge lost its tow line and ran aground in Sennon Cove. Later towed to Falmouth

Refloated but grounded again at Marazion

Kergall grounded in heavy seas

Wreck of Nimrod

Wreck of Nimrod