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grounded off the Seven Stones reef. Smoke can be seen from the explosives used to release the oil on board and burn it. Longships Lighthouse in foreground

All members of the crew were saved except for 15 year old cabin boy

Eleven years passed, and the tragedy of the Vierge Marie was repeated. Again, it was the usual 'wreck weather' for the western cliffs: hazy with heavy ground seas, the aftermath of a hard south-west gale. Shortly after one o'clock in the morning of…

Eleven years passed, and the tragedy of the Vierge Marie was repeated. Again, it was the usual 'wreck weather' for the western cliffs: hazy with heavy ground seas, the aftermath of a hard south-west gale. Shortly after one o'clock in the morning of…

Eleven years passed, and the tragedy of the Vierge Marie was repeated. Again, it was the usual 'wreck weather' for the western cliffs: hazy with heavy ground seas, the aftermath of a hard south-west gale. Shortly after one o'clock in the morning of…

Eleven years passed, and the tragedy of the Vierge Marie was repeated. Again, it was the usual 'wreck weather' for the western cliffs: hazy with heavy ground seas, the aftermath of a hard south-west gale. Shortly after one o'clock in the morning of…

Note cork life jackets Coxswain Vingoe

Eleven years passed, and the tragedy of the Vierge Marie was repeated. Again, it was the usual 'wreck weather' for the western cliffs: hazy with heavy ground seas, the aftermath of a hard south-west gale. Shortly after one o'clock in the morning of…

Penlee Lifeboat helping a Loewstft Drifter aground off Eastern Green ,Penzance.

She was driven off course by strong Gales and struck the Deeper Stones off Godrevy point all 40passengers and crew were lost

From the Illustrated London News
She struck Brissons Cape Cornwall near Land's End

She hit Shutter Rock nr Lundy Island in thick fog. The ship was later broken up for scrap.

Struck rocks at Black Head and drifted to Lowland Point, All 17 of the crew were saved by the Coverack Lifeboat but the ship was total loss.

Struck rocks at Black Head and then drifted to Lowland Point. All 17 of the crew were saved by the Coverack Lifeboat but the ship was a total loss.

All crew were saved but the ship broke in two and was total loss

The Lyminge was a steamer owned by the Messrs of Constants of Cardiff. The vessel wrecked at Gurnards Hedges on September 19th 1931.

Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David &…