French Clipper 'Seine', Perran Sands, 1900
French Clipper Seine The Seine was a 2,630 ton clipper registered at Bordeaux, a ship full rigged and built for speed to quickly carry nitrate from South America, for uses such as fertiliser. Having left Chile 80 days previously, the Seine was driven ashore at Perran Bay on 27 December 1900 by a west-north-westerly gale. All her crew were rescued by rocket and line, or by volunteers from the shore. Her wreck was sold for ��42 the steel plates of her hull can be seen.
27th December 1900
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French Clipper 'Seine', Perran Sands, 1900
French Clipper Seine The Seine was a 2,630 ton clipper registered at Bordeaux, a ship full rigged and built for speed to quickly carry nitrate from South America, for uses such as fertiliser. Having left Chile 80 days previously, the Seine was driven ashore at Perran Bay on 27 December 1900 by a west-north-westerly gale. All her crew were rescued by rocket and line, or by volunteers from the shore. In the background are Penhale Point, and Gull Rock off Holywell. Her wreck was sold for ��42.
27th December 1900
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French Clipper 'Seine', Perran Sands, 1900
French Clipper Seine The Seine was a 2,630 ton clipper registered at Bordeaux, a ship full rigged and built for speed to quickly carry nitrate from South America, for uses such as fertiliser. Having left Chile 80 days previously, the Seine was driven ashore at Perran Sands on 27 December 1900 by a west-north-westerly gale. All her crew were rescued by rocket and line, or by volunteers from the shore. Her wreck was sold for ��42.
27th December 1900
Cornwall Council
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French Clipper 'Seine', Perran Sands, 1900
French Clipper Seine The Seine was a 2,630 ton clipper registered at Bordeaux, a ship full rigged and built for speed to quickly carry nitrate from South America, for uses such as fertiliser. Having left Chile 80 days previously, the Seine was driven ashore at Perran Sands on 27 December 1900 by a west-north-westerly gale. All her crew were rescued by rocket and line, or by volunteers from the shore. Her wreck was sold for ��42.
27th December 1900
Cornwall Council
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Norwegian barque Sperenza, Cligga Head, Porthtowan.
Norwegian barque Spirenza The Sperenza, a barque, lost her masts and was abandoned by her crew off the north coast of Cornwall. She had been carrying coal from South Wales to Brazil. Her crew were picked up from their boat by a steamer and put ashore at Exmouth. Left derelict, she drifted ashore and was completely wrecked by Cligga Head near Porthtowan.
23rd January 1899
Cornwall Council
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St Agnes
Harbour, St Agnes
c.1900
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St Agnes
Harbour, St Agnes
c.1900
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St Agnes
Harbour, St Agnes
c.1900
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St Agnes
The Quay, St Agnes
c.1900
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Schooner Cornish Lass, Trevellas, 1896
Schooner Cornish Lass The Cornish Lass, a ketch, was wrecked at Trevellas while trying to enter St Agnes harbour with coal on 6 January 1896. Displacing 60 tons, she had been a coaster operating around St Agnes for many years.
6th January 1896
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Capstan of Rose of Devon, Porthtowan
Capstan of Rose of Devon The Rose, a barque headed from Plymouth to Cardiff, was lost with all hands far out on the sands of Porthtowan. Driven ashore in a north-north-westerly gale, her remains are occasionally uncovered by the sands her capstan.
c.1947
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Plymouth barque Rose of Devon, Porthtowan
Plymouth barque Rose of Devon The Rose, a barque headed from Plymouth to Cardiff, was lost with all hands far out on the sands of Porthtowan. Driven ashore in a north-north-westerly gale, her remains are occasionally uncovered by the sands.
29th November 1897
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Porthtowan
Steamship Holme Wood
River Avon
c.1900
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Rough seas
c.1900
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Portreath
Sailing boat
c.1900
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Portreath
Hayle Lifeboat Attempting Rescue of Steamer Escurial
Hayle Lifeboat The steamer Escurial, eastbound to Fiume/Rijeka on the Adriatic from Glasgow with coal, sprang a leak off Godrevy in bad weather, turned and ran aground at Portreath, near Gull Rock. The Hayle lifeboat was brought overland to Portreath to aid her crew (Newquay and St Ives lifeboats tried but failed to reach Portreath), but the heavy onshore weather made the lifeboat very hard to launch and control. 1 crew member was rescued by the lifeboat others tried to swim ashore where coastguards and volunteers waited in the surf but 11 crew were lost.
25th January 1895
Cornwall Council
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Portreath
Schooner
c.1910
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Docks
c.1910
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Falmouth
Schooner
c.1910
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Steamship
c.1910
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Steamship Wild Rose
c.1910
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Unidentified steamship
Unidentified steamship aground An unidentified steamer aground on the coast of Cornwall.
c.1910
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Steamship
Steamship M(?) J Hedley
c.1900
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S S Hayle Hayle Black Cliffs, Hayle
S S Hayle Hayle, a steamer built by Harvey of Hayle, ran aground on the sands of the bar off Black Cliffs, at Hayle. Hayle's lifeboat, Admiral Rodd, rescued her crew and she was later refloated by the salvage steamer Lady of the Isles.
c.1900
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Hayle
Tug, Hayle
c.1900
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