Primrose, Wrecked inside Low Lee Buoy 23rd August 1906

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Title

Primrose, Wrecked inside Low Lee Buoy 23rd August 1906

Subject

Miscellaneous

Description

The Primrose was a Liverpool coaster, who wrecked on August 3rd 1906.

She rammed her bows on the reef in thick fog and by the morning her stern had risen twenty feet in the air, poised for her final plunge into deep water.

Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.184.

Publisher

Gibson

Date

1906-08023

Rights

© Morrab Library

Type

Photograph

Identifier

M.1580

Coverage

Low Lee Buoy, Newlyn/Mousehole

Geolocation