Title
Eilianus, wrecked at Bude June 15th 1936.
Subject
Coaster
Scrap Iron
Shipwreck
Wreck
Description
The Liverpool coaster, the 333-ton Eilianus, steamed into a large reef during the fog of June 1936. Launched in Holland in 1917 as the Wyke Regis, she left Blyth on June 2nd, discharged coal at Dunkirk and proceeded to Le Havre, loading 800 tons of assorted scrap metal including railway ties, wheels, and axles and a lot of heavy cast iron.
She sailed from Britton-ferry at noon on the 15th and met fog of Trevose, and shortly after midnight, just as the watches were changing, ground to a halt off Knap Head. Captain Griffiths, who had lost the coast Aridri off Bardsey Island only three months before, and his crew of ten Welsh sailors, abandoned ship and spent an uncomfortable night rowing about in wind and rain beef they beached at Marshland Mouth at dawn.
The Eilianus soon broke up, her structure and cargo mingling with scrap iron from the Cambalu, and by July 1944 their bows lay propped together right below Knap Head.
Description from Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The North Coast (London: Pan book Ltd, 1970) p.165.
She sailed from Britton-ferry at noon on the 15th and met fog of Trevose, and shortly after midnight, just as the watches were changing, ground to a halt off Knap Head. Captain Griffiths, who had lost the coast Aridri off Bardsey Island only three months before, and his crew of ten Welsh sailors, abandoned ship and spent an uncomfortable night rowing about in wind and rain beef they beached at Marshland Mouth at dawn.
The Eilianus soon broke up, her structure and cargo mingling with scrap iron from the Cambalu, and by July 1944 their bows lay propped together right below Knap Head.
Description from Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The North Coast (London: Pan book Ltd, 1970) p.165.
Date
16-06-1936
Rights
Morrab Library
Identifier
COLLINS.056B
Coverage
Knapp Head, Bude