Title
'Yewcroft' Shipwreck, July 1956.
Subject
Shipwreck
Description
The 827-ton steam coaster, Yewcroft, bound from the Thames to Bristol with cement, wandered off course in dense fog and grounded near Cudden Point. A few hours later, as the tide ebbed from beneath her, she broke in half.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p184.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p184.
Date
1956-07-08
Rights
Morrab Library
Format
Print
Identifier
WRECKS 32HF 115b
Coverage
Cudden Point