Title
SS Yewcroft aground broken back Cudden Point, July 1956
Subject
Shipwreck
Sea
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
WRECK 6.003
Coverage
Cudden Point
Period Costume
N
Individual Names
Yewcroft