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Wrecked in thick fog.

H.M.S Romney was one of the four Naval warships that made up the Scilly Naval disaster of 1707.

On October 22nd 1707, Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, and some 2,000 officers and men of the Royal Navy met their deaths when H.M.S Association,…

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The 800-ton Newcastle Collier, Renwick, was in ballast from Devonport to Burryport before she dragged ashore at Gyllyngvase during a south-westerly gale on February 26th 1903. By the morning, her stem had been torn off and the hull flooded. Captain…

The Plymouth Steam Trawler went ashore went ashore on Porth Hellick, St. Marys in 1902. The image shows how the crew were waiting for the eventual high tide to eventually re-float the vessel.

Description of wreck from Richard Larn, Cornish…

On the 29th September 1976, the Romanian fish-factory ship wrecked at Seven Stones. The vessel later sank but all the crew were rescued.

Wreck of the 'Provider' from Brigham at Marazion with St Michaels Mount in the background.

The Primrose was a Liverpool coaster and collier 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…

The 5,077-ton tanker, Ponus, which was laden with crude oil, went ashore on November 3rd 1916. She caught fire during the wreck and was alight for almost three days.

At the time, a number of so-called tankers were either converted cargo ships/…

The Cypriot motor-vessel Poleire of 2,300 tons, which struck the Little Kettle Rock, north-west of Tresco on 15 April 1970 in Dense Fog. It wrecked with a cargo of zinc ore, she was bound for Gdynia, Poland, from Ireland when she went ashore less…

The Pindos launched in June 1890 by Williamson of Workington as the Eusemere, was a steel, four-masted barque of 2,354 tons net and 2,512 gross, built for the firm of Fisher & Sprott of London.

In 1896 she was sold to B. Wencke & Company of…