Title
Henry Harvey, Wrecked on March 25th 1898
Subject
The Henry Harvey (1857) was bound from Runcorn to Lelant with a cargo of coal when it missed stays trying to enter Penzance in a NE gale and heavy seas on 25 March 1898.
The anchor was dropped but the cable parted, and the ship drifted onto Woollan's Rocks, near Battery Rocks. The Penzance RNLI lifeboat Elizabeth and Blanche came to their assistance, rescuing the five crew and one woman.
On 27 March the ship was refloated after the cargo jettisoned and towed into Penzance by the salvage tug Chase.
Description from Royal Cornwall Gazette, 31 March 1898.
The anchor was dropped but the cable parted, and the ship drifted onto Woollan's Rocks, near Battery Rocks. The Penzance RNLI lifeboat Elizabeth and Blanche came to their assistance, rescuing the five crew and one woman.
On 27 March the ship was refloated after the cargo jettisoned and towed into Penzance by the salvage tug Chase.
Description from Royal Cornwall Gazette, 31 March 1898.
Description
Mounted on card.
Date
1886
Rights
Morrab library
Format
Print
Identifier
RGN.020
Physical Dimensions
6" x 8"