Title
Petrellen, Wrecked in Mounts Bay on February 1st 1885
Subject
Shipwreck
Wreck
Barque Style Sailing Vessel
Description
The Petrellen was a barque style sailing vessel of 335-tons.
On its homeward bound journey to Porsground, Norway, the vessel was driven on to the sand flats at Longrock. None of the crew was drowned. She had put into Mount's Bay for her chief mate to get treatment for an injured foot, and had been anchored there for a fortnight when the weather turned rough. It was while she was trying to get clear on the evening of the February 1st 1885 that she was wrecked.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.180.
On its homeward bound journey to Porsground, Norway, the vessel was driven on to the sand flats at Longrock. None of the crew was drowned. She had put into Mount's Bay for her chief mate to get treatment for an injured foot, and had been anchored there for a fortnight when the weather turned rough. It was while she was trying to get clear on the evening of the February 1st 1885 that she was wrecked.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.180.
Publisher
Gibson
Date
1883-01-31
Rights
Morrab Library
Format
Print
Identifier
COLLINS.149
Coverage
Mounts Bay, Penzance