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Th Albert Wilhelm was a 202-ton German brigade of Barth, with Master Wallace, wrecked on October 16th 1886. The vessel was launched by Drossel of Zingst in 1856

She was two days out from Ramsey, Isle of Man, in ballast to Fowey, clipped the Stones…

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…

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…

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The Andromeda was a 1,762-ton, four master barque that wrecked at Killygerran Head. She had been launched in 1890 by Duncans of Glasgow but in the later had been sold to Black & More of London. She had arrived off Falmouth 116 days out from…

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,

Negative and damaged print

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…