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

When the Adolf Vinnen came ashore in 1923 she was a new ship, only nine day out of her builders hands. Owned by Vinnens of Bremen, she was one of five steel, five-masted auxiliary schooners built by Krupps of Kiel between 1922-23. Of over 2,000 tons…

When the Adolf Vinnen came ashore in 1923 she was a new ship, only nine day out of her builders hands. Owned by Vinnens of Bremen, she was one of five steel, five-masted auxiliary schooners built by Krupps of Kiel between 1922-23. Of over 2,000 tons…

The last large steamer wrecked at Cape Cornwall fell to the 4,538-ton Aida Lauro of Naples.

She had been launched in July 1923 by the Richardson Dock Company of Stockton as the Randor, for the Cardigan Shipping Company, and was a steel screw…

The last large steamer wrecked at Cape Cornwall fell to the 4,538-ton Aida Lauro of Naples.

She had been launched in July 1923 by the Richardson Dock Company of Stockton as the Randor, for the Cardigan Shipping Company, and was a steel screw…

The last large steamer wrecked at Cape Cornwall fell to the 4,538-ton Aida Lauro of Naples.

She had been launched in July 1923 by the Richardson Dock Company of Stockton as the Randor, for the Cardigan Shipping Company, and was a steel screw…

The largest sailing ship lost anywhere between Land's End and St Ives was the Liverpool ship Alexander Yeats, launched in 1876 by D. Lynch of Portland, New Brunswick, as a wooden full-rigger of 1,589 tons.

Towards the end of her career she was…

The largest sailing ship lost anywhere between Land's End and St Ives was the Liverpool ship Alexander Yeats, launched in 1876 by D. Lynch of Portland, New Brunswick, as a wooden full-rigger of 1,589 tons.

Towards the end of her career she was…

This photograph shows the ship aground the Greeb, near Perranuthanoe in Mounts Bay

The largest sailing ship lost anywhere between Land's End and St Ives was the Liverpool ship Alexander Yeats, launched in 1876 by D. Lynch of Portland, New Brunswick, as a wooden full-rigger of 1,589 tons.

Towards the end of her career she was…

One of the largest ships to wreck on the Cornish Coast, the Ansgir, was one of many vessels of the German Merchant Marine.

Completed a dew weeks after the Armistice of 1918, she was created by A K Ges Neptune of Rostock, on the Baltic. She was a…

Captain Anderson, Valentine Coryn, Margarita Anderson,

The Bay of Panama was a 2,282-ton, four masted, square-rigged steel ship, launched by Harland & Wolff at Belfast in 1883 and described as one of the finest sailing vessels ever built.

She left Calcutta on November 18th 1890 with 13,000 bales of…

The Bay of Panama was a 2,282-ton, four masted, square-rigged steel ship, launched by Harland & Wolff at Belfast in 1883 and described as one of the finest sailing vessels ever built.

She left Calcutta on November 18th 1890 with 13,000 bales of…

The Bay of Panama was a 2,282-ton, four masted, square-rigged steel ship, launched by Harland & Wolff at Belfast in 1883 and described as one of the finest sailing vessels ever built.

She left Calcutta on November 18th 1890 with 13,000 bales of…