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Close to the tip of Land's End lie the Pearl Rocks, just awash, and here on September 28th 1921, the Swansea steamer Lambaness, bound for Barry to St Malo with coal steamed right over the reef in thick hazy wether.

She sank until only her masts…

Lost at sea 1895-10-02 near Ilfracombe

ALso in picture: 'Lady of the Isles'

C RHG 33/35

Negative Richards C RHG 32/44

Rescue by breeches buoy

Being refitted in Holmans Dry Dock. Was in storage on the Thames.

The Lizzie R. Wilce was en route from Swansea for St. Malo with coal. Constructed of wood in 1876, she was a sailing vessel, it was carrying a cargo of anthracite.

On Tuesday 7th January at about 9.15pm during a heavy north-west gale, a vessel…

The Lutria was abandoned 62.5 miles S.W. of Bishops Rock. Master Capt. Duamantaras. Crew of 28 rescued by 2 of their own boats, including 2 Sea Kings and West German helicopters.
ref. W.M News. 12/02/72

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 &…