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The Castleford was carrying 3000 tons of general cargo, including deal and wheat, as well as 460 head of cattle, 1 passenger and 18 cattle drovers. On Sunday 8 June 1887 the Castleford was underway in dense fog and at high water. Despite stopping to…

The Bideford ketch Cecilia became the last sailing ship to be wrecked in St. Ives Bay. Manned by Captain Frederick Bennett of Ilfracombe, and his sons John and Arthur, she broke loose while discharging coal from Lydney alongside Smeatons Pier during…

Rare photo of LSA in action see Angove Wreck 8.010 and 8.025 for breeches buoy in use

The 5,994-ton Clan lines steamer Clam Malcolm of Glasgow, wrecked at Green lane at 9pm on September 26th while bound from Port Natal via London to Glashow.

Dense fog cloaked the headland at the time, and the coastguards were unaware of the wreck…

Took list off Longships and towed in to Penzance.

Wrecked between Mousehole and Penzer Point

Copy of photograph in Western Daily Mercury

The 1,835 ton- Liverpool Collier County of Salop, Master Evan, was in water ballast from Le Harve to the Mersey before coming ashore at Watson Mouth, at 14:00 pm on March 10th 1892.

The collier, launched at Barrow in 1882, was demolished for…

The Cragoswald of Newcastle was a 2,085-ton Steamer. She had sailed from Barry in the early house of April 28th 1911, bound for Venice with 4,800 tons of coal, but when twelve hours out her chief engineer was taken seriously ill and Captain Albert…

The Cromdale came ashore at at Bass Point, after a one hundred and twenty-dour day journey from Taltal, Chile with a cargo of Nitrates. She was already a week overdue at Falmouth when, nearing the Lizard, she ran into dense fog on the evening of May…

Stranded near estuary, left as derelict. Ex-Rosebud.

Shipwreck on Hayle Bar

Print of an illustration.

Became a total wreck 27 -08-1934
Picture is printed the wrong way round - negative incorrect.

The Auxiliary packet Earl of Arran ran ashore on Irishman's ledge on the July 16 1872. Built in Paisley in 1860 for the Ardrossen to Arran passenger run, the Earl of Arran served in the Clyde from 1860 until 1868, when she worked excursions between…