Title
Avebury, wrecked at Lamorna, 1884
Subject
Collier
Ballast
Shipwreck
Wreck
Description
The Avebury was a Sunderland Steamer that was heading between Lisbon and Cardiff with a cargo of Iron ore and esparto grass (used for crafting).
The Avebury missed Land's End completely in fog and steamed on the rocks less than a quarter of a mile west of Lamorna.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.198.
The Avebury missed Land's End completely in fog and steamed on the rocks less than a quarter of a mile west of Lamorna.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.198.
Publisher
Gibson
Date
04-11-1884
Rights
Morrab Library
Identifier
COLLINS.017
Coverage
Lamorna