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- Collection: The Ronald Garlick Newport Collection of Gibson Wreck Photographs
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Cromdale, wrecked at Bass Point, 1913
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…
Cromdale, wrecked at Bass Point, Lizard, 1913
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…
Dandy Alliance and schooner Golden Light driving ashore near Penzance, 7 or 8 Dec. 1886
Mounted on card
Deck photo of unidentified ship in harbour being pumped out
Print; some fading in foreground
Distant view of partly dismasted 2-masted sailing vessel, probably off Carbis Bay
Print; missing lower left corner, making verso caption illegible
Earl of Arran, wrecked on Scilly, 1872.
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…
Four-masted steel ship Bay of Panama, 1891
Albumin print
Full-rigged ship Horsa, 1893
The Horsa of Liverpool sunk twenty-one miles south-west of the Bishop Rock on Tuesday 4 April 1893. It was the rocks in Bread and Cheese One, St. Martins which tore the holes in her plating.
Owned by Star Navigation Company of Liverpool, the…
Owned by Star Navigation Company of Liverpool, the…
Gem, Liverpool Paddle Steamer, Wrecked November 21st 1881.
Gem, was a double ended paddle steamer of Liverpool. The small ship was 400 tons gross and was owned by John Lander of Birkenhead.
Gem was on passage from Holyhead for the Brass River, Niger, Africa. She contained 37 tons of coal as ballast. Her…
Gem was on passage from Holyhead for the Brass River, Niger, Africa. She contained 37 tons of coal as ballast. Her…
Gunvor, 3 masted-barque wrecked at Black Head, April 6th 1912.
The 1,491 ton three masted, steel barque Gunvor of Fredrickstadt, Norway.
The Gunvor was lost at Pedn Boar on April 6th 1912, while on passage from Caleta to Falmouth with nitrates. So close inshore was she that her bowsprit overhung the rocks…
The Gunvor was lost at Pedn Boar on April 6th 1912, while on passage from Caleta to Falmouth with nitrates. So close inshore was she that her bowsprit overhung the rocks…
Hamburg Amerika Liner Vaterland, 1917
Verso inscription: 1917-18 WWI
Hamburg Amerika Linnie (sic)
German Ships Interned in N York
Photo by Mr Stables (illeg.)
Hamburg Amerika Linnie (sic)
German Ships Interned in N York
Photo by Mr Stables (illeg.)
Henry Harvey, Wrecked on March 25th 1898
Mounted on card.
Herzogin Cecilie , undated
Print from a full plate; slight damage and shading to corners
