Title
Giles Lang, wrecked at Bude November 8th 1896.
Subject
Schooner
Coal
Shipwreck
Wreck
Description
The Giles Lang, a 80-ton was a St. Ives schooner. Launched by Tredwen of Padstow in 1864, she had a chequered career, losing her skipper in one of several collisions off Lizard, and in May 1894 her crew had been rescued by lifeboat in Tranlee Bay.
The master Daniel Hollow master was sailing from Porthcawl to Penzance with coal, which leaking seriously, was beached at Maer Lake in a fresh NNW gale on November 8th 1896.
Description from Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwreck: The North Coast (London: Pen Ltd, 1970), p.160.
The master Daniel Hollow master was sailing from Porthcawl to Penzance with coal, which leaking seriously, was beached at Maer Lake in a fresh NNW gale on November 8th 1896.
Description from Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwreck: The North Coast (London: Pen Ltd, 1970), p.160.
Date
08-11-1896
Rights
Morrab Library
Type
Print
Identifier
COLLINS.069
Coverage
Bude
Original Format
Print and Negative