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The Bay of Panama was a 2,282-ton, four masted, square-rigged steel ship, launched by Harland & Wolff at Belfast in 1883 and described as one of the finest sailing vessels ever built.

She left Calcutta on November 18th 1890 with 13,000 bales of…

The Horsa of Liverpool sunk twenty-one miles south-west of the Bishop Rock on Tuesday 4 April 1893. It was the rocks in Bread and Cheese One, St. Martins which tore the holes in her plating.

Owned by Star Navigation Company of Liverpool, the…

The Liverpool barque, Maipu, was the largest sailing sailing shipped (being 594 tons gross) wrecked in Hell Bay. The Maipu was bound from Inquique, Chile, to Hamburg with a valuable cargo of saltpetre, she went ashore only a few hours prior to River…

Bessie was on passage from Cardiff to Portland with a cargo of coal, when it became caught in a gale on the night of 18 November 1893. Bessie hit the western side of the Hayle Estuary and fortunately floated off and was carried by the wind and tide…

Mounted on card.

Mounted on card

The ketch Alliance and Schooner Golden light were driven ashore at Chyandour on December 7th 1886. Both were from Penzance.

Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles,…

Harbour, aerial view

Harbour and background

Sepia style view.
With a hand written message in ink to the reverse of the postcard to a recipient in Lewisham, London

Overview

Moored vessels

View of the inner Harbour.
With a hand written message in ink to the reverse of the postcard to a recipient in Gloucester

View of the Inner Harbour

General view

Sepia style view

Camping on St Ives Island with Porthmeor beach in background.

Prime Minister Harold Wilson with dog