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Alexandra Yeats
The Alexander Yeats (1876) was wrecked on voyage from Savannah, USA to Devonport Dockyard, via Holyhead, with a cargo of deals and pitch pine on 25 September 1896. The ship went aground on the east side of Gurnard's Head, swinging broadside into the…
The Alexandra Yeats
The Alexander Yeats (1876) was wrecked on voyage from Savannah, USA to Devonport Dockyard, via Holyhead, with a cargo of deals and pitch pine on 25 September 1896. The ship went aground on the east side of Gurnard's Head, swinging broadside into the…
S.S Serica wrecked off St. Mary's, 1893
The Serica, a fine steel screw, schooner-rigged steamer of 1,736 tons register. Her last voyage began at Cardiff on November 16th 1893, when she sailed for Port Said with a crew of twenty-five and a cargo of coal.
Bad weather was encountered the…
Bad weather was encountered the…
SS Serica wrecked off St. Mary's, 1893
The Serica, a fine steel screw, schooner-rigged steamer of 1,736 tons register. Her last voyage began at Cardiff on November 16th 1893, when she sailed for Port Said with a crew of twenty-five and a cargo of coal.
Bad weather was encountered the…
Bad weather was encountered the…
Henry Harvey, Wrecked on March 25th 1898
Mounted on card.
Bessie, Liverpool Steam Collier, wrecked at Carbis Bay, Novemebr 18th 1893.
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 tide…
Full-rigged ship Horsa, 1893
The Horsa of Liverpool sunk twenty-one miles south-west of the Bishop Rock on Tuesday 4 April 1893. It was the rocks in Bread and Cheese One, St. Martins which tore the holes in her plating.
Owned by Star Navigation Company of Liverpool, the…
Owned by Star Navigation Company of Liverpool, the…
Seine, wrecked at Perran, December 27th 1900
The largest and best-known sailing-ship wreck in Perran Bay was the French nitrate clipper Seine, an elegant three masted steel barque of 2,630 tons gross launched in 1889 by La Porte of Rouen for the celebrated fleet of A.D Bordes et Fils of…
SS Paris, ashore at Coverack May 21st 1899.
The Paris left Southampton on 20 May 1899 with 380 passengers and 372 crew and collected a further 50 passengers from Cherbourg, then making passage to New York. The ship diverted to Eddystone and Lizard Lighthouses to get a navigational fix.…
Schooner Mary Hannah, Wrecked at Tolcarne in February 4th 1899.
The Mary Hannah was on passage from Cardiff to Plymouth with a cargo of coal.
Disabled after the main boom was damaged in a huge sea and gale off the Lizard, she headed for Newlyn but was unable to enter the harbour and ran ashore at Tolcarne.…
Disabled after the main boom was damaged in a huge sea and gale off the Lizard, she headed for Newlyn but was unable to enter the harbour and ran ashore at Tolcarne.…
Bessie, Liverpool Steam Collier, Wrecked in Carbis Bay, November 18th 1893
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…
Bessie hit the western side of the Hayle Estuary and fortunately floated off and was carried by the wind and…
Torbay Lass, Wrecked on the Cressars, off Penzance Pier December 8th 1891.
The Brixham Trawler, Torbay Lass, was wrecked on the Cressars, Penzance Pier on December 8th 1891.
She was in tow from the Mount, where she had just unloaded coal from Runcorn to Penzance. But the tug Merlin, skippered by a local shipwright…
She was in tow from the Mount, where she had just unloaded coal from Runcorn to Penzance. But the tug Merlin, skippered by a local shipwright…
Serica
The Serica, a fine steel screw, schooner-rigged steamer of 1,736 tons register. Her last voyage began at Cardiff on November 16th 1893, when she sailed for Port Said with a crew of twenty-five and a cargo of coal.
Bad weather was encountered the…
Bad weather was encountered the…
Peace and Plenty Ketch with oared 'ARAB' lifeboat, both wrecked April 11th 1900
The Lowestoft trawling ketch, Peace and Plenty, wrecked on Doom Bar due to the combination of wind and tidal levels in April 11th 1900.
She dragged her anchors from Stepper on the northern shore of Padstow Bay during a hard WNW gale. In a never to…
She dragged her anchors from Stepper on the northern shore of Padstow Bay during a hard WNW gale. In a never to…
Mary Hannah, Wrecked at Tolcarne in February 4th 1899.
The Mary Hannah was on passage from Cardiff to Plymouth with a cargo of coal.
Disabled after the main boom was damaged in a huge sea and gale off the Lizard, she headed for Newlyn but was unable to enter the harbour and ran ashore at Tolcarne.…
Disabled after the main boom was damaged in a huge sea and gale off the Lizard, she headed for Newlyn but was unable to enter the harbour and ran ashore at Tolcarne.…
Henry Harvey, March 25th 1898
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…
Giles Lang, wrecked at Bude November 8th 1896.
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.…
County of Salop, March 10th 1892.
The 1,835 ton- Liverpool Collier County of Salop, Master Evan, was in water ballast from Le Harve to the Mersey before coming ashore at Watson Mouth, at 14:00 pm on March 10th 1892.
The collier, launched at Barrow in 1882, was demolished for…
The collier, launched at Barrow in 1882, was demolished for…
Friggens Four Horse Jersey Car off on Excursion
Jersey Cars made daily trips to the Logan Rock Lands End Gurnard Hd.Carbis Bay & St Ives
Unloading a catch at Sennen
Two fishermen unload their boats at Sennen Cove. Crab pots can be seen in the foreground.