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Wreck of the 'Suevic' off the Lizard march 17, 1907.
Collins Gibson prints W 0191A

Wreck of the 'Primrose' a Collier from Liverpool inside the Low Lee Buoy
Collins Gibson wreck prints W 0154A.

The Pasteur aground on rocks off the Isles of Scilly
1938 .

Wreck of the 'Ansgir' at Penzer Point off Mousehole 2nd December 1920.
Collins Gibson prints W 0013B.

Clive Carter´s "Cornish Shipwrecks, The North Coast" states: This wreck´s tragic story began at 2.30 am on the 22nd January 1939 when St. Just coastguard sighted a large steamer smothered by breaking seas 2 miles north of Cape Cornwall. At the time…

Wreck of Tay Craig
Nine sailors were saved on a stormy day when a steamer floundered on rocks just off Penzance. It was exactly 87 years ago, in the early hours of the morning that the Taycraig, a Cornish owned but London registered steamer came a…

The wreck of the steamer Alba of Panama, the rescue by St Ives Lifeboat resulted in the loss of the lifeboat Caroline Parsons and 5 lives from the crew of the Alba. Report in detail can be seen from the RNLI archive…

Wreck of Steamer North Coast West Cornwall CP56.

The 827-ton steamship stranded in dense fog on the rocks of Trevean Cove, while carrying cement between Cliffe and Bristol. The captain believed he was near the Brisons at Cape Cornwall. Wikipedia

Print with caption " S.S. "Ornais II" Ashore at Perran

Wreck of British cargo steamer that ran aground at Lowland Point Coverack carrying a cargo of iron Ore

British steam cargo ship. Built 1913 by Smith's Dock Co Ltd Middlesbrough. Ran aground off Cape Cornwall

The wreck of the SS Clan Malcolm off Lizard Point in Cornwall is of particular interest to me because my grandfather Captain Lawrance Wilfrid Gibbins went on board her when he was a junior officer with the Clan Line in the 1920s. Launched in November…

Wreck off Gurnards Head

Wreck of Schooner Sarah Ann Evans. Crew of three were rescued

Motor tanker Saint Guénolé of Rouen ( France) ran aground at Penberth Cove while bound for Irvine from Nantes in ballast. She was found bottom up and eleven of her twelve crew drowned. Wikipedia

Belgian fishing trawler, Omer Denise, built 1906 ran aground at Coverack

Wreck of Nimrod