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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…

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…

Top Sail Schooner

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 &…

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 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…

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

C RHG 33/35

ALso in picture: 'Lady of the Isles'

Lost at sea 1895-10-02 near Ilfracombe

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…

Captain Munford

All crew saved by lifeboat

"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.