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The Mary Hannah was on passage from Cardiff to Plymouth with a cargo of coal.

Disabled after the main boom was damaged in a huge sea and gale off the Lizard, she headed for Newlyn but was unable to enter the harbour and ran ashore at Tolcarne.…

The Trawler, Scotia, wrecked at Bude due to fog in May 1911.

Description from Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The North Coast (London: Penn Books Ltd, 1970), p.162.

The largest and best-known sailing-ship wreck in Perran Bay was the French nitrate clipper Seine, an elegant three masted steel barque of 2,630 tons gross launched in 1889 by La Porte of Rouen for the celebrated fleet of A.D Bordes et Fils of…

The largest and best-known sailing-ship wreck in Perran Bay was the French nitrate clipper Seine, an elegant three masted steel barque of 2,630 tons gross launched in 1889 by La Porte of Rouen for the celebrated fleet of A.D Bordes et Fils of…

The largest and best-known sailing-ship wreck in Perran Bay was the French nitrate clipper Seine, an elegant three masted steel barque of 2,630 tons gross launched in 1889 by La Porte of Rouen for the celebrated fleet of A.D Bordes et Fils of…

The largest and best-known sailing-ship wreck in Perran Bay was the French nitrate clipper Seine, an elegant three masted steel barque of 2,630 tons gross launched in 1889 by La Porte of Rouen for the celebrated fleet of A.D Bordes et Fils of…

The Serica, a fine steel screw, schooner-rigged steamer of 1,736 tons register. Her last voyage began at Cardiff on November 16th 1893, when she sailed for Port Said with a crew of twenty-five and a cargo of coal.

Bad weather was encountered the…

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On Saturday December 15th 1979, HM Coastguard informed Padstow Lifeboat Station that the Skopelos Sky, a 2800 Greek freighter
was in trouble off Trevose Head. She was on route from Garston for Algiers with a cargo of drums of lubricating oil. The…

On Saturday December 15th 1979, HM Coastguard informed Padstow Lifeboat Station that the Skopelos Sky, a 2800 Greek freighter
was in trouble off Trevose Head. She was on route from Garston for Algiers with a cargo of drums of lubricating oil. The…

The Steel masted, Socoa, of Bayonne stranded near Cadgwith in thick weather while on passage from Stettin to San Francisco.

She was carrying cement intended for the rebuilding of that earthquake-shattered city and 50,000 barrels of it had to be…

The Steel masted, Socoa, of Bayonne stranded near Cadgwith in thick weather while on passage from Stettin to San Francisco.

She was carrying cement intended for the rebuilding of that earthquake-shattered city and 50,000 barrels of it had to be…