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A wooden launch on Marazion Beach.

On March 4th 1932, the steamer Ocklinge was lost in the same place as the French Collier Gap, as there seemed no reason of weather or visibility for her to have got so far off course.

She had been towed into Falmouth early the same day by the…

RNLI Men

The American steamer Bessemer City wrecked at Clodgy in 1936, was launched in 1921 by the Chickasaw Shipbuilding Company of Alabama for the US Steel Production Company.

She was steel screw steamer of 3,450 tons net, 5,686 tons gross, powered by…

The Conqueror was a modern freezer trawler built by Hall, Russel & Co Ltd in Aberdeen1965, for the Northern Trawlers Company. By 1977 she had undergone a major refit to extend her freezer capacity, and left her home port of Hull to go mackerel…

West end of beach near Cornish Leisure Centre

The Harry, a ketch-rigged Brixham trawler, wrecked near Porthcurno on 13 March 1910 during a southerly gale. The crew of four was picked up by the Sennen lifeboat from the small boat in which they had left the wreck. Brigham no. 62 was built by…

Warspite on tow to Breakers broke tow from Tug Buster

The British Merchant service tanker, Hemsley I wrecked at Fox Cove, May 12th 1969.

Launched of the Admiralty in November 1916 by the Tyne Shipbuilding Company of Newcastle, she remained the naval oiler Scotol until 1948 when she was bought by…

Noisiel wrecked August 1905 Master Captain Symons a Cornishman and 6of his crew survived 2 able seaman were lost

Cargo of marble was saved by hoist-gear to the clifftop

The Dean of Truro, the Very Revd. Henry Morgan Lloyd, DSO, OBE, MA, unveiling the plaque at Truro station. Others in the photo include, on the left of the group, O.S. Nock, Esq,, BSc, C. Eng, FICE, FIMeche., the railway author; and Wing Commander…