Title
Albert Wilhelm, wrecked at the Lelant, October 16th 1886.
Subject
Brig
Ballast
Shipwreck
Wreck
Description
Th Albert Wilhelm was a 202-ton German brigade of Barth, with Master Wallace, wrecked on October 16th 1886. The vessel was launched by Drossel of Zingst in 1856
She was two days out from Ramsey, Isle of Man, in ballast to Fowey, clipped the Stones reef and drove into Lelant. Five men were landed by breeches-buoy, and the other four by the Isis at the coast of seven oars smashed and two crews exhausted. By daylight the Albert Wilhelm, lay deeply embedded, good for little except firewood.
The bewildered Germans slept on the dunes and some sat forlornly on heaps of wreckage watching the coastguard at work; during the afternoon they were interested spectators when the 218-ton Glasgow collier Excelsior, Garston for Portreath with coal, ran for Hayle and stranded only 200 yards from the wrecked brig.
Description from Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The North Coast (London: Pan Books LTD, 1970), p.68-69.
She was two days out from Ramsey, Isle of Man, in ballast to Fowey, clipped the Stones reef and drove into Lelant. Five men were landed by breeches-buoy, and the other four by the Isis at the coast of seven oars smashed and two crews exhausted. By daylight the Albert Wilhelm, lay deeply embedded, good for little except firewood.
The bewildered Germans slept on the dunes and some sat forlornly on heaps of wreckage watching the coastguard at work; during the afternoon they were interested spectators when the 218-ton Glasgow collier Excelsior, Garston for Portreath with coal, ran for Hayle and stranded only 200 yards from the wrecked brig.
Description from Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The North Coast (London: Pan Books LTD, 1970), p.68-69.
Date
16-10-1886
Rights
Morrab Library
Identifier
COLLINS.008
Coverage
Lelant