Title
Primrose, Wrecked in Mount's Bay on August 3rd 1906.
Subject
Collier
Coal
Shipwreck
Wreck
Description
The Primrose was a Liverpool coaster and collier who wrecked on August 3rd 1906.
She rammed her bows on the reef in thick fog and by the morning her stern had risen twenty feet in the air, poised for her final plunge into deep water.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.184.
She rammed her bows on the reef in thick fog and by the morning her stern had risen twenty feet in the air, poised for her final plunge into deep water.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.184.
Date
1906-08-23
Rights
Morrab Library
Identifier
COLLINS.154A
Coverage
Low Lee, Mounts Bay, Penzance, Cornwall