Title
Peace and Plenty Ketch with oared 'ARAB' lifeboat, both wrecked April 11th 1900
Subject
Shipwreck
Wreck
Description
The Lowestoft trawling ketch, Peace and Plenty, wrecked on Doom Bar due to the combination of wind and tidal levels in April 11th 1900.
She dragged her anchors from Stepper on the northern shore of Padstow Bay during a hard WNW gale. In a never to be forgotten night of stark tragedy, three trawler men were drowned, the oared lifeboat Arab was wrecked and the new steam lifeboat James Stevens No.4 capsized off Stepper Point. Only two survivors swam ashore from the lifeboat, and at dawn she lay keel up in a cavern like a "battered tin can" her engineer and two firemen still lying dead in the stokehold.
Description from Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The North Coast (London: Penn Books Ltd, 1970), 111.
She dragged her anchors from Stepper on the northern shore of Padstow Bay during a hard WNW gale. In a never to be forgotten night of stark tragedy, three trawler men were drowned, the oared lifeboat Arab was wrecked and the new steam lifeboat James Stevens No.4 capsized off Stepper Point. Only two survivors swam ashore from the lifeboat, and at dawn she lay keel up in a cavern like a "battered tin can" her engineer and two firemen still lying dead in the stokehold.
Description from Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The North Coast (London: Penn Books Ltd, 1970), 111.
Date
1900-04-11
Rights
Morrab Library
Format
Print
Identifier
COLLINS.148
Coverage
Harlyn Bay, Padstow, Cornwall