Title
Avonmore, wrecked at Bude September 14th 1869.
Subject
Shipwreck
Wreck
Description
The 1,580-ton full-rigger Avonmore of Bristol, Corfield master, two days out from Cardiff to Montevideo with coal, crippled by a NNW gale, anchored off the Higher Sharpnose at daw on September 14th 1869.
The Avonmore launched in New Brunswick in 1867, and one of a fleet of South American traders owned by Charles Hill of Bristol, broke up completely two nights later.
A tug had been sent for when her lights appeared off Tintagel the previous night, but at noon her cable sheared and she drove broadside under the cliffs. Her young second officer and she drove broadside under the cliffs.
Her young second officer and six Lascar Sailors (Indian and South Asian Sailors) were swept overboard as they cut away fallen spars. Parson Hawker, suffering from sciatica, having spent an uncomfortable night after the storm had blown in his bedroom window, arrived to find the crew in 'death horror; and his glebe thronged with people.
The Bude coastguards and sailors shouldered their ways to the fore, and captain Corfield and fourteen men were landed by breeches buoy. One sailor still lay trapped on board, his legs entangled in wreckage. Dr King of Stratton went across to perform emergency amputation, but several coastguards who followed him freed the sailor intact.
This is a photograph of an engraving from a book. At Morwenstow near Bude.
Description from Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The North Coast (London: Penn Books Ltd, 1970), 158.
The Avonmore launched in New Brunswick in 1867, and one of a fleet of South American traders owned by Charles Hill of Bristol, broke up completely two nights later.
A tug had been sent for when her lights appeared off Tintagel the previous night, but at noon her cable sheared and she drove broadside under the cliffs. Her young second officer and she drove broadside under the cliffs.
Her young second officer and six Lascar Sailors (Indian and South Asian Sailors) were swept overboard as they cut away fallen spars. Parson Hawker, suffering from sciatica, having spent an uncomfortable night after the storm had blown in his bedroom window, arrived to find the crew in 'death horror; and his glebe thronged with people.
The Bude coastguards and sailors shouldered their ways to the fore, and captain Corfield and fourteen men were landed by breeches buoy. One sailor still lay trapped on board, his legs entangled in wreckage. Dr King of Stratton went across to perform emergency amputation, but several coastguards who followed him freed the sailor intact.
This is a photograph of an engraving from a book. At Morwenstow near Bude.
Description from Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The North Coast (London: Penn Books Ltd, 1970), 158.
Publisher
Morrab Library
Date
14-09-1869
Rights
Morrab Library
Identifier
COLLINS.018
Coverage
Bude