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The largest sailing ship lost anywhere between Land's End and St Ives was the Liverpool ship Alexander Yeats, launched in 1876 by D. Lynch of Portland, New Brunswick, as a wooden full-rigger of 1,589 tons.

Towards the end of her career she was…

This photograph shows the ship aground the Greeb, near Perranuthanoe in Mounts Bay

The largest sailing ship lost anywhere between Land's End and St Ives was the Liverpool ship Alexander Yeats, launched in 1876 by D. Lynch of Portland, New Brunswick, as a wooden full-rigger of 1,589 tons.

Towards the end of her career she was…

Frith postcard of Dolly Pentreath's memorial in Paul churchyard, erected in 1860.

Now at Penlee House, Penzance.

Stone cross outside church, St. ives

One of the largest ships to wreck on the Cornish Coast, the Ansgir, was one of many vessels of the German Merchant Marine.

Completed a dew weeks after the Armistice of 1918, she was created by A K Ges Neptune of Rostock, on the Baltic. She was a…

Captain Anderson, Valentine Coryn, Margarita Anderson,

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…

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…

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…

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…

Bessie was on passage from Cardiff to Portland with a cargo of coal, when it became caught in a gale on the night of 18 November 1893.

Bessie hit the western side of the Hayle Estuary and fortunately floated off and was carried by the wind and…

The war memorial on Battery Rocks, Penzance

Late medieval lantern cross ten and a half feet high on an octagonal shaft in the churchyard of St Ia's Church, St Ives.

Grid reference, SW 5182 4052

For further information see Historic Environment Record,…

Sea cliffs houses Arsenic Stack on Cape . Also print from damaged negative

Rough sea rocks. Print from damaged negative

Longships Lighthouse just visible in background in waves