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Total loss with all hands

Marble from Wreck of Petrel 9th December 1886 bound from Leghorn to Leith. Blown ashore at Wine Cove 5 miles West of Padstow

On September 11 1903, the Hayle Lifeboat crew had a dangerous and unnecessary trip out to the derelict Beaumaris schooner Enterprise.

The Enterprise [Enterprize] (1846) was bound from Charlestown, USA, to Manchester with a cargo of china clay when…

The 3,534-ton Greek collier Othon Stathatos of Ithaki lurched into St. Ives bows awash after striking the Three Stone Oar in April 1913.

Description from Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The North Coast (London: Pan Books LTD, 1970), p.34.

T French crabber, Pasteur, became stranded on the Hanjague Rock on the 12th September 1938. She became stranded when the wind dropped and she drifted ashore, fortunately to be refloated on the next high tide.Description of wreck, from Richard Larn,…

The Primrose was a Liverpool coaster, 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…

One of the largest ships to wreck on the Cornish Coast, the Ansgir, was one of many vessels of the German Merchant Marine.

Completed a dew weeks after the Armistice of 1918, she was created by A K Ges Neptune of Rostock, on the Baltic. She was a…

'Nefeli' ex 'Osborne Queen' wrecked off Dollar Cove, 5th November 1972, the Lizard due to fire destroying the radar, she became a total loss

The Suevic was homeward bound from Australia, carried a crew of 141, plus 382 passengers, and one stowaway; her cargo was general, and included frozen meats, butter, and copper bars.

She was on her way to Liverpool via Plymouth when an error of…

Wreck of the William Cory off Pendeen 1910. 1910..

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…

Survivors from the Juan Ferrer.

The Juan Ferrer of Valencia was a handsome, well-equipped motor coaster of nearly 700 tons, thrashing her way up towards Land's end on her usual run from her home port of Liverpool.

Owned by Frederick Ferrer of…

The Paris left Southampton on 20 May 1899 with 380 passengers and 372 crew and collected a further 50 passengers from Cherbourg, then making passage to New York. The ship diverted to Eddystone and Lizard Lighthouses to get a navigational fix.…

Shipwreck "Hamburg" aground .