Title
Clan Malcolm, wrecked at Mulvin Rock, September 26th 1935
Subject
aground
Description
The 5,994-ton Clan lines steamer Clam Malcolm of Glasgow, wrecked at Green lane at 9pm on September 26th while bound from Port Natal via London to Glashow.
Dense fog cloaked the headland at the time, and the coastguards were unaware of the wreck until they saw her distress rockets. Although the German tug, Seefalke, reached her in a matter of hours, the identity of the ship was not known until the Lizard lifeboat returned after eighteen hours duty.
The Clan Malcolm was so badly damaged, and a salvage diver declared her a total loss. On September 30th the underwriters confirmed the loss officially, a personal tragedy for Captain Pollock, the master for whom this was a last command before retiring.
On November 3rd, a south-east gale smashed deck fittings, decks, and hatch covers; she survived one night of this pounding, but began to break up the following day.
Her deck was swept clean, and after a sagging deck line had showed her keel to be broken, Cadwith Cove was soon ten feet deep in wreckage.
Some time later the Clan Malcolm which was launched in 1917 by Craig Taylor& Co of Stockton, was dispersed by explosives.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.136.
Dense fog cloaked the headland at the time, and the coastguards were unaware of the wreck until they saw her distress rockets. Although the German tug, Seefalke, reached her in a matter of hours, the identity of the ship was not known until the Lizard lifeboat returned after eighteen hours duty.
The Clan Malcolm was so badly damaged, and a salvage diver declared her a total loss. On September 30th the underwriters confirmed the loss officially, a personal tragedy for Captain Pollock, the master for whom this was a last command before retiring.
On November 3rd, a south-east gale smashed deck fittings, decks, and hatch covers; she survived one night of this pounding, but began to break up the following day.
Her deck was swept clean, and after a sagging deck line had showed her keel to be broken, Cadwith Cove was soon ten feet deep in wreckage.
Some time later the Clan Malcolm which was launched in 1917 by Craig Taylor& Co of Stockton, was dispersed by explosives.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.136.
Date
1935
Identifier
WRECKS 32PF 155
Coverage
Lizard
Street Name
Clan Malcolm