Title
SS County of Salop on Beach Aux Sails rigged, 1892
Subject
Ship Steam
Landsea
Description
The 1,835 ton- Liverpool Collier County of Salop, Master Evan, was in water ballast from Le Harve to the Mersey before coming ashore at Watson Mouth, at 14:00 pm on March 10th 1892.
The collier, launched at Barrow in 1882, was demolished for crap iron, though seventy later an enterprising Bude man salvaged her propeller-shaft single handed.
Description from Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The North Coast (London: Penn Books Ltd, 1970), p.159-160.
The collier, launched at Barrow in 1882, was demolished for crap iron, though seventy later an enterprising Bude man salvaged her propeller-shaft single handed.
Description from Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The North Coast (London: Penn Books Ltd, 1970), p.159-160.
Date
1892
Rights
Morrab library
Format
Print
Identifier
WRECK 4.038
Coverage
Widemouth Bay Bude
Period Costume
N
Individual Names
SS County of Salop