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.…