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The Suevic was homeward bound from Australia, carried a crew of 141, plus 382 passengers, and one stowaway; her cargo was general, and included frozen meats, butter, and copper bars.

She was on her way to Liverpool via Plymouth when an error of…

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The 100-ton steamer, Normande of Bayonne that was going from Nantes to Fowey in ballast went ashore on April 2nd 1914.

It was very foggy at the time, but the crew managed to scramble ashore, to be found the next morning by a Mr Martin, a local…

Lifeboat Attending: Richard Lewis

Nurzec. Polish.
Off Aberdeen, Murcar Sands. 4 men drowned during rescue ops. Capt. Tym Bartczak saved.Ref Observer & the Sunday Mail,6/1/1974

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…

The Belgian motor trawler Omer Denise went ashore on the opposite side of the Coverack Bay, at Perprean Cove. She was found next morning, stern first on the rocks, abandoned but with her engine still running. She broke up where she lay and her crew…

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The Lowestoft trawling ketch, Peace and Plenty, wrecked on Doom Bar due to the combination of wind and tidal levels in April 11th 1900.

She dragged her anchors from Stepper on the northern shore of Padstow Bay during a hard WNW gale. In a never to…

The Petrellen was a barque style sailing vessel of 335-tons.

On its homeward bound journey to Porsground, Norway, the vessel was driven on to the sand flats at Longrock. None of the crew was drowned. She had put into Mount's Bay for her chief…