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Zennor Post Office photocopied sketch

Zennor, Cromlech, Nr Penzance, Cornwall
Grid reference, SW 4687 3801.
For further information see Historic Environment Record, https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MCO28547&resourceID=1020

Yawl 'Scout'

Wynwallow's Church, The most southerly church in England/Cornwall. Built 15th Century but thought to have been founded in AD 600

shipwrecks. Collection of negatives mostly Gibson , not likely to be originals .
Local wrecks see Collins shipwrecks

HMS Warspite (03) was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship launched in 1913. She served in the First World War and in numerous operations in the Second World War, earning the most battle honours of any Royal Navy ship. She ran aground on her way to be…

HMS Warspite (03) was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship launched in 1913. She served in the First World War and in numerous operations in the Second World War, earning the most battle honours of any Royal Navy ship. She ran aground on her way to be…

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…

Wreck of the William Cory off Pendeen 1910. 1910..

Wreck of the 'Torrey Canyon' on the Seven Stones group of Prints.

T French crabber, Pasteur, became stranded on the Hanjague Rock on the 12th September 1938. She became stranded when the wind dropped and she drifted ashore, fortunately to be refloated on the next high tide.Description of wreck, from Richard Larn,…

Clive Carter´s "Cornish Shipwrecks, The North Coast" states: This wreck´s tragic story began at 2.30 am on the 22nd January 1939 when St. Just coastguard sighted a large steamer smothered by breaking seas 2 miles north of Cape Cornwall. At the time…

Wreck of Tay Craig
Nine sailors were saved on a stormy day when a steamer floundered on rocks just off Penzance. It was exactly 87 years ago, in the early hours of the morning that the Taycraig, a Cornish owned but London registered steamer came a…

The wreck of the steamer Alba of Panama, the rescue by St Ives Lifeboat resulted in the loss of the lifeboat Caroline Parsons and 5 lives from the crew of the Alba. Report in detail can be seen from the RNLI archive…

Wreck of Steamer North Coast West Cornwall CP56.

The 827-ton steam coaster, Yewcroft, bound from the Thames to Bristol with cement, wandered off course in dense fog and grounded near Cudden Point. A few hours later, as the tide ebbed from beneath her, she broke in half.

Description from Richard…

Print with caption " S.S. "Ornais II" Ashore at Perran

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