Title
County of Salop, March 10th 1892.
Subject
Shipwreck
Wreck
Description
The 1,835 ton- Liverpool Collier County of Salop, Master Evan, was in water ballast from Le Harve to the Mersey before coming ashore at Watson Mouth, at 14:00 pm on March 10th 1892.
The collier, launched at Barrow in 1882, was demolished for crap iron, though seventy later an enterprising Bude man salvaged her propeller-shaft single handed.
Description from Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The North Coast (London: Penn Books Ltd, 1970), p.159-160.
The collier, launched at Barrow in 1882, was demolished for crap iron, though seventy later an enterprising Bude man salvaged her propeller-shaft single handed.
Description from Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The North Coast (London: Penn Books Ltd, 1970), p.159-160.
Date
10-03-1892
Rights
Morrab Library
Format
Negative
Identifier
COLLINS.044
Coverage
Widemouth Bay, Bude
Original Format
Print and Negative