Browse Items (429 total)

All crew saved by lifeboat

Captain Munford

Close to the tip of Land's End lie the Pearl Rocks, just awash, and here on September 28th 1921, the Swansea steamer Lambaness, bound for Barry to St Malo with coal steamed right over the reef in thick hazy wether.

She sank until only her masts…

Lost at sea 1895-10-02 near Ilfracombe

ALso in picture: 'Lady of the Isles'

C RHG 33/35

Being refitted in Holmans Dry Dock. Was in storage on the Thames.

The Lizzie R. Wilce was en route from Swansea for St. Malo with coal. Constructed of wood in 1876, she was a sailing vessel, it was carrying a cargo of anthracite.

On Tuesday 7th January at about 9.15pm during a heavy north-west gale, a vessel…

The Lutria was abandoned 62.5 miles S.W. of Bishops Rock. Master Capt. Duamantaras. Crew of 28 rescued by 2 of their own boats, including 2 Sea Kings and West German helicopters.
ref. W.M News. 12/02/72

The Lyminge was a steamer owned by the Messrs of Constants of Cardiff. The vessel wrecked at Gurnards Hedges on September 19th 1931.

Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David &…

Top Sail Schooner

On October 15th 1889, the miners of St Just awoke to find the Cunarder Malta on the rocks, half a mile east of Cape Cornwall, beneath the Wheal Castle Mine.

The 2,244-ton Malta had been launched in 1865 by G. & J. Thompson of Glasgow for the…

The French schooner MARIE CELINE, Blanchard master, sailed from Falmouth port yesterday for Gijon, with pitch, and during last night's gale went ashore near Portscatho, and likely to become a total wreck. Crew saved.

She was lying on rocks badly…

No Image found for this record within Collins Collection. See Collections: SHIP.8.013 and .8026 and the Ronald Garick Newport collection of Gibson wreck photographs RGN.081