Title
SS Yewcroft stranded at Perranuthnoe, 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
Rights
Morrab library
Format
Print
Identifier
WRECK 8.013
Coverage
Perranuthoe
Period Costume
N
Individual Names
Yewcroft