Title
Industry, wrecked at the Doom Bar, September 12th 1912
Subject
Barquentine
Coal
Shipwreck
Wreck
Description
The elderly Swansea brigantine, Industry, was run ashore while coal-laden from Britonferry to Treport on September 12th 1912. Four stalwarts, prizing the tobacco on board, decided on a raid.
One would engage the guard on Harlan bridge, lighting his pipe should the man come towards the brigantine, and another would keep watch for this signal.
It was a dark night as the three wreckers sneaked across the dry sands; two scrambled on board the Industry, heaved a useful rope over the side and jumped down after it to coil it for taking away. Suddenly a shadowy figure appeared round the bows. Alarmed they ran away round the wreck, peered cautiously round the bows, and saw the same figure peering at them from the stern. Again they changed ends, then again, and the charade continued until the sands around the Industry resembled a ploughed field.
Finally, exhausted, they decided to face their silent but apparently enrage pursuer, be he customs man or coastguard, only to be confronted with the equally worn-out third member of their foray, who had been unable to shout to them for fear of attracting the attention of the guard.
Description from Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The North Coast (London: Penn Books LTD, 1970), p, 110-111.
One would engage the guard on Harlan bridge, lighting his pipe should the man come towards the brigantine, and another would keep watch for this signal.
It was a dark night as the three wreckers sneaked across the dry sands; two scrambled on board the Industry, heaved a useful rope over the side and jumped down after it to coil it for taking away. Suddenly a shadowy figure appeared round the bows. Alarmed they ran away round the wreck, peered cautiously round the bows, and saw the same figure peering at them from the stern. Again they changed ends, then again, and the charade continued until the sands around the Industry resembled a ploughed field.
Finally, exhausted, they decided to face their silent but apparently enrage pursuer, be he customs man or coastguard, only to be confronted with the equally worn-out third member of their foray, who had been unable to shout to them for fear of attracting the attention of the guard.
Description from Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The North Coast (London: Penn Books LTD, 1970), p, 110-111.
Date
27-09-1912
Rights
Morrab Library
Format
Print
Type
Photograph
Identifier
COLLINS.087
Coverage
Harlyn Bay
Original Format
Print and negative