Title
Yewcroft Glasgow cargo ship aground Trevean cove, nr. Perranuthnoe, July 1956
Subject
Shipwreck
Description
The 827-ton steam coaster, Yewcroft, bound from the Thames to Bristol with cement, wandered off course in dense fog and grounded near Cudden Point. A few hours later, as the tide ebbed from beneath her, she broke in half.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p184.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p184.
Date
1936
Identifier
WRECKS 32QF 193
Coverage
nr Cudden point
Street Name
Yewcroft Penlee lifeboat