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  • Collection: Collins Shipwreck Collection

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The Giles Lang, a 80-ton was a St. Ives schooner. Launched by Tredwen of Padstow in 1864, she had a chequered career, losing her skipper in one of several collisions off Lizard, and in May 1894 her crew had been rescued by lifeboat in Tranlee Bay.…

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Account given at the inquest as reported in the Cornishman 1908-06-11

The stranding of the Lowestoft sailing trawler Girl Annie, near Pordenack Point, Land's End, on May 4th 1908, was investigated at a Board of Trade inquiry held at Lowestoft on…

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Sailing trawler of Lowestoft.

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Sepia tint photograph of illustration by C.M.Hart.

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The Schooner Golden light were driven ashore at Chyandour on December 7th 1886. The Schooner was from Penzance.

Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.178.

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The 1,491 ton three masted, steel barque Gunvor of Fredrickstadt, Norway.

The Gunvor was lost at Pedn Boar on April 6th 1912, while on passage from Caleta to Falmouth with nitrates. So close inshore was she that her bowsprit overhung the rocks…
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