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Collided with 'Bessie'

The 286-ton steel schooner Voorspoed of Amsterdam, W.K. machinery and general cargo, failed to weather Droskyn Point, in a fresh northerly gale on March 7th 1901.

Sampson Mitchell of Alma fame, hit her mainmast with the first rocket, and the…

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The Belgian Motor trawler, Vierge Marie of Ostend was a 200 ton vessel. She was on her way into Newlyn after developing engine trouble off Pendeen the previous afternoon, and there had been no warning of how close the weather had brought her to the…

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The Vega was the first ship to complete a voyage through the Northeast Passage, and the first vessel to circumnavigate the Eurasian continent, during the Vega expedition. Initially a troubled enterprise, the successful expedition is considered to be…

Lifeboat Solomon Browne. 16 people died including 8 lifeboatmen.

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The 2,297-ton steamer Tripolitania of Genoa sailed from her home port on December 181th 1912, in water ballast for Barry Dcoks, under the command of Captain Elia Reppito, and when deep in the Bay of Biscay encountered the worst storm to sweep the…

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German Ship carrying anthracite from cardiff to Ostend, ran ashore close to Gurnard's Head near Land's End, Cornwall.
Fortunately they were seen by HM Coastguard Station and all six crew and the Captain's dog were all safely rescued by breeches…

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The Brixham Trawler, Torbay Lass, was wrecked on the Cressars, Penzance Pier on December 8th 1891.

She was in tow from the Mount, where she had just unloaded coal from Runcorn to Penzance. But the tug Merlin, skippered by a local shipwright…

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