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Rocket Apparatus and Breeches Buoy in use

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…

Cox Mr Thomas and son died

The 2,297-ton steamer Tripolitania of Genoa sailed from her home port on December 181th 1912, in water ballast for Barry Dcoks, under the command of Captain Elia Reppito, and when deep in the Bay of Biscay encountered the worst storm to sweep the…

The Taycraig was a Cornish owned steamer. She was originally registered in London.

On January 27th 1936, she dragged her anchors in a south-west gale and wrapped herself around the tall post-and-cage beacon which marks the Gear Rocks, just off…

A wooden launch on Marazion Beach.

On March 4th 1932, the steamer Ocklinge was lost in the same place as the French Collier Gap, as there seemed no reason of weather or visibility for her to have got so far off course.

She had been towed into Falmouth early the same day by the…

RNLI Men

The American steamer Bessemer City wrecked at Clodgy in 1936, was launched in 1921 by the Chickasaw Shipbuilding Company of Alabama for the US Steel Production Company.

She was steel screw steamer of 3,450 tons net, 5,686 tons gross, powered by…

The Conqueror was a modern freezer trawler built by Hall, Russel & Co Ltd in Aberdeen1965, for the Northern Trawlers Company. By 1977 she had undergone a major refit to extend her freezer capacity, and left her home port of Hull to go mackerel…