Title
Indefatigable, wrecked at Foundry Beach, St. Makes Castle on January 22nd 1910.
Subject
Shipwreck
Wreck
Description
The Russian barque, Indefatigable wrecked on the January 22nd 1910 at St. Mawes Castles.
After being weather-bound at Falmouth for a week, she left harbour on January 22nd heading for Cardiff, in tow with the tug Challenge. Off Land's End the sea was too rough to continue, so both returned and anchored in the Carrick Roads. That night the barque dragged her anchors, went ashore close to the old castle and was high and dry at low water. The tugs Dragon, Marian, and Briton managed to pull her clear and get her into dry dock but as her owners were unable to pay the coast of the salvage and docking she was sold by order of a local court.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coasts (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.57.
After being weather-bound at Falmouth for a week, she left harbour on January 22nd heading for Cardiff, in tow with the tug Challenge. Off Land's End the sea was too rough to continue, so both returned and anchored in the Carrick Roads. That night the barque dragged her anchors, went ashore close to the old castle and was high and dry at low water. The tugs Dragon, Marian, and Briton managed to pull her clear and get her into dry dock but as her owners were unable to pay the coast of the salvage and docking she was sold by order of a local court.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coasts (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.57.
Date
22-01-1910
Rights
Morrab Library
Format
Print
Type
Photograph
Identifier
COLLINS.086
Coverage
Foundry Beach, St Mawes
Original Format
Print and negative