Title
Poleire
Subject
Motor Vessel
Zinc Ore
Shipwreck
Wreck
Description
The Cypriot motor-vessel Poleire of 2,300 tons, which struck the Little Kettle Rock, north-west of Tresco on 15 April 1970 in Dense Fog. It wrecked with a cargo of zinc ore, she was bound for Gdynia, Poland, from Ireland when she went ashore less than a mile from Round Island Lighthouse, having failed to hear its fog signal. Within a week, the vessel broke in two and sank into deep water.
Description taken from Richard Larn, Cornish Shipwrecks: Isles of Scilly (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p. 106.
Description taken from Richard Larn, Cornish Shipwrecks: Isles of Scilly (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p. 106.
Date
1970-05-15
Rights
Morrab Library
Identifier
COLLINS.151
Coverage
Tresco, Isles of Scilly