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The 1,597-ton steel ship, Hansy, launched at Dumbarton by Alexander Macmillan & Sons in 1885 as the Aberfoyle.

In the course of a somewhat chequered career, she had been picked up in Bass Strait, Tasmania in 1896 by a steamer which had found her…

The Henry Harvey (1857) was bound from Runcorn to Lelant with a cargo of coal when it missed stays trying to enter Penzance in a NE gale and heavy seas on 25 March 1898. The anchor was dropped but the cable parted, and the ship drifted onto Woollan's…

The Horsa of Liverpool sunk twenty-one miles south-west of the Bishop Rock on Tuesday 4 April 1893. It was the rocks in Bread and Cheese One, St. Martins which tore the holes in her plating.

Owned by Star Navigation Company of Liverpool, the…

The Russian barque, Indefatigable wrecked on the January 22nd 1910 at St. Mawes Castles.

After being weather-bound at Falmouth for a week, she left harbour on January 22nd heading for Cardiff, in tow with the tug Challenge. Off Land's End the sea…

The elderly Swansea brigantine, Industry, was run ashore while coal-laden from Britonferry to Treport on September 12th 1912. Four stalwarts, prizing the tobacco on board, decided on a raid.

One would engage the guard on Harlan bridge, lighting…

Shortly before 5 am and on November 3rd 1962, the coastguard on watch at Cape Cornwall saw the navigation lights of the 250-ton Dieppe trawler, Jeanne Gougy, about two miles offshore.

She was steering southwards and he was expecting the lights to…

The Juan Ferrer of Valencia was a handsome, well-equipped motor coaster of nearly 700 tons, thrashing her way up towards Land's end on her usual run from her home port of Liverpool.

Owned by Frederick Ferrer of Valencia, the Juan Ferrer was only…

"The submarine L1, a veteran of the First World War, launched by Vickers of Barrow in 1917, drifted ashore at Penanwell Cove after breaking tow while bound from Chatham to Newport for scrapping." from Cornish Shipwrecks, North Coast by Clive Carter.