Title
Susan Elizabeth, schooner wrecked at Porthminster Beach, St.Ives, October 17th 1907.
Subject
Shipwreck
Description
The Susan Elizabeth a 78-ton wooden schooner was bound for Liverpool to Truro with wheat when she dragged under Black Cliff in NNE gale on November 16th 1882.
The Isis capsized and drove ashore while trying to reach her, and the schooner's crew were rescued by breeches-buoy.
The battered Susan Elizabeth launched at Dartmouth in 185 and owned by Balkwill & Co, was sold to Joshua Daniel, coal merchant of St. Ives, and for the next twenty-five years plied the colliers trade. On October 17 1907 a NNE gale caught her off the Mumbles and, sails in tatters, she reached St. Ive only to be tossed on to Portminster Beach.
Captain John Curnow, who as a boy was wrecked on board the Schooner Jasper at St. Ives in December 1874, and his crew, were saved by the lifeboat. The Susan Elizabeth's hulk menaced the seine fishery until it was dynamited in October 1909, though not before a live turtle was found on board.
Description from Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The North Coast (Pan Books LTD, 1970), p.67.
The Isis capsized and drove ashore while trying to reach her, and the schooner's crew were rescued by breeches-buoy.
The battered Susan Elizabeth launched at Dartmouth in 185 and owned by Balkwill & Co, was sold to Joshua Daniel, coal merchant of St. Ives, and for the next twenty-five years plied the colliers trade. On October 17 1907 a NNE gale caught her off the Mumbles and, sails in tatters, she reached St. Ive only to be tossed on to Portminster Beach.
Captain John Curnow, who as a boy was wrecked on board the Schooner Jasper at St. Ives in December 1874, and his crew, were saved by the lifeboat. The Susan Elizabeth's hulk menaced the seine fishery until it was dynamited in October 1909, though not before a live turtle was found on board.
Description from Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The North Coast (Pan Books LTD, 1970), p.67.
Creator
Paul Brothers, Penzance.
Date
1907-10-17
Rights
Morrab library
Format
Print
Identifier
RGN.080
Coverage
St.Ives
Physical Dimensions
11" x 9"