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The Henry Harvey (1857) was bound from Runcorn to Lelant with a cargo of coal when it missed stays trying to enter Penzance in a NE gale and heavy seas on 25 March 1898. The anchor was dropped but the cable parted, and the ship drifted onto Woollan's…

The 1,597-ton steel ship, Hansy, launched at Dumbarton by Alexander Macmillan & Sons in 1885 as the Aberfoyle.

In the course of a somewhat chequered career, she had been picked up in Bass Strait, Tasmania in 1896 by a steamer which had found her…

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…

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.

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

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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…

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.…

The Fleswick, launched at Troon in 1900, wrecked at Black cliff on January 28th 1902.

The lifeboat crew rescued six men and a pilot from the 195-ton Whitehaven coaster Fleswick which, inward bound from Neath, lay with decks awash off Black Cliff.…