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Wrecked After Fastnet Race

The Avebury was a Sunderland Steamer that was heading between Lisbon and Cardiff with a cargo of Iron ore and esparto grass (used for crafting).

The Avebury missed Land's End completely in fog and steamed on the rocks less than a quarter of a mile…

The 1,580-ton full-rigger Avonmore of Bristol, Corfield master, two days out from Cardiff to Montevideo with coal, crippled by a NNW gale, anchored off the Higher Sharpnose at daw on September 14th 1869.

The Avonmore launched in New Brunswick in…

The Sailing barge Baltic was bound for Newlyn from Medway with a cargo of cement for the harbour extension works. It wrecked on St. Clements Island on November 1st 1907. The Baltic got off course after rounding the Lizard. The night was so dark and…

Shipwrecked off Vasiler Rock, Manacles. Recovered from rocks by Liverpool Salvage. Fog, September 1924

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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 1,415-tons wooden full-rigger Bencoolen, launched at St. Johns, New Brunswick in 1855. She was one of the large fleet of Bengal traders owned and managed by Edward Bates & Co of Liverpool.

She was apparently a well-found ship, seaworthy and…

The American steamer Bessemer City wrecked at Clodgy in 1936, was launched in 1921 by the Chickasaw Shipbuilding Company of Alabama for the US Steel Production Company.

She was steel screw steamer of 3,450 tons net, 5,686 tons gross, powered by…

Photograph of illustration. Steamer ships Vulture and Bessie at Carbis Bay, near St Ives. A sketch by Mr Sydney H. Carr.

The Cardiff tramp, Bluejacket, struck the rocks sixty feet from the main door of the Longship Lighthouse on November 9th 1898. The wreck came at the end of a long tramping voyage which began on June 4th, under the command of Captain James Thomas,…

Salvaged at Newlyn after capsizing 3/4 mile off Mousehole in 120ft of water

The 1, 661-ton brigantine-rigged Brankelow of Liverpool was under charter to the Russian government, laden with coal from Cardiff to Kronstadt, when she grounded near Gunwalloe in a light south-westerly breeze and slight haze at 12:30 a.m on April…

The 2,070-ton Busby was launched in February 1894 at Stockton as a steel screw schooner-rigged steamer for the general Indian trade of Ropner & Co of West Hartlepool. She had made only one Indian voyage when she sailed from Newport on the evening of…

Stranded in Constantine Bay, Padstow