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Lifeboat Solomon Browne. 16 people died including 8 lifeboatmen.

The Vega was the first ship to complete a voyage through the Northeast Passage, and the first vessel to circumnavigate the Eurasian continent, during the Vega expedition. Initially a troubled enterprise, the successful expedition is considered to be…

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The Belgian Motor trawler, Vierge Marie of Ostend was a 200 ton vessel. She was on her way into Newlyn after developing engine trouble off Pendeen the previous afternoon, and there had been no warning of how close the weather had brought her to the…

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The 286-ton steel schooner Voorspoed of Amsterdam, W.K. machinery and general cargo, failed to weather Droskyn Point, in a fresh northerly gale on March 7th 1901.

Sampson Mitchell of Alma fame, hit her mainmast with the first rocket, and the…

Collided with 'Bessie'

see Richards for breeches buoy

Penninis forrunner of the Scillonian. Was a yacht then a fishing protection vessel.

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Stranded 21-30 Monday 21.01.80 later towed off and scrapped

The Abertay was a 599-ton steel screw, schooner rigged steamer. Owned by Bois et Chabois of Lorient and bound for Barry with a cargo of pit wood. Launched in 1888 by W. Simon & Company of Renfrew.

She had sailed from France thirty-six hours…

Ex Admiralty Launch ashore on Battery Rocks, Penzance.
One of a series of six.