Surviving bullocks ashore from Castleford, 1887

Surviving bullocks ashore from Castleford, 1887

Shipwreck

Cattle

The Castleford was carrying 3000 tons of general cargo, including deal and wheat, as well as 460 head of cattle, 1 passenger and 18 cattle drovers. On Sunday 8 June 1887 the Castleford was underway in dense fog and at high water. Despite stopping to listen for fog horns or bells, the ship ran onto the Crebawethan rock, remaining fast. The hold and then boiler and engine rooms flooded. 250 cattle were landed at Annet, near St Agnes, and 400 deals were saved. The ship broke in two before the bridge on 9 June and the masts and funnel went over board the following day.

When the Castleford was lost amongst the Western Rocks in 1887, £12.11s went to St Agnes for the saving and succour of eighteen cattlemen.

Description from Royal Maritime Museum Greenwich Online Archive AND Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: Isles of Scilly (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.27.

Gibson

1887-06-08

Morrab library

Print

RGN.024

8" x 6"