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The Bideford ketch Cecilia became the last sailing ship to be wrecked in St. Ives Bay. Manned by Captain Frederick Bennett of Ilfracombe, and his sons John and Arthur, she broke loose while discharging coal from Lydney alongside Smeatons Pier during…

The Castleford was carrying 3000 tons of general cargo, including deal and wheat, as well as 460 head of cattle, 1 passenger and 18 cattle drovers. On Sunday 8 June 1887 the Castleford was underway in dense fog and at high water. Despite stopping to…

Stranded in Constantine Bay, Padstow

The 2,070-ton Busby was launched in February 1894 at Stockton as a steel screw schooner-rigged steamer for the general Indian trade of Ropner & Co of West Hartlepool. She had made only one Indian voyage when she sailed from Newport on the evening of…

The 1, 661-ton brigantine-rigged Brankelow of Liverpool was under charter to the Russian government, laden with coal from Cardiff to Kronstadt, when she grounded near Gunwalloe in a light south-westerly breeze and slight haze at 12:30 a.m on April…

Salvaged at Newlyn after capsizing 3/4 mile off Mousehole in 120ft of water

The Cardiff tramp, Bluejacket, struck the rocks sixty feet from the main door of the Longship Lighthouse on November 9th 1898. The wreck came at the end of a long tramping voyage which began on June 4th, under the command of Captain James Thomas,…

Photograph of illustration. Steamer ships Vulture and Bessie at Carbis Bay, near St Ives. A sketch by Mr Sydney H. Carr.

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 1,415-tons wooden full-rigger Bencoolen, launched at St. Johns, New Brunswick in 1855. She was one of the large fleet of Bengal traders owned and managed by Edward Bates & Co of Liverpool.

She was apparently a well-found ship, seaworthy and…

The Bay of Panama was a 2,282-ton, four masted, square-rigged steel ship, launched by Harland & Wolff at Belfast in 1883 and described as one of the finest sailing vessels ever built.

She left Calcutta on November 18th 1890 with 13,000 bales of…

Photograph and negative

Shipwrecked off Vasiler Rock, Manacles. Recovered from rocks by Liverpool Salvage. Fog, September 1924

The Sailing barge Baltic was bound for Newlyn from Medway with a cargo of cement for the harbour extension works. It wrecked on St. Clements Island on November 1st 1907. The Baltic got off course after rounding the Lizard. The night was so dark and…