952
20
19383
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https://www.photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/Miscellaneous_Glass_Negatives_and_Lantern_Slides/20981/MG.472.tif
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Miscellaneous Glass Negatives and Lantern Slides
Description
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The photo Archive has acquired a large number of glass negatives and lantern slides from various donations. The topics range from those with local interest to others with interesting topics such as sets of lantern slides of botanical specimens and a wonderful collection of slides of Tresco.
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Morrab Library
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Morrab Library unless otherwise stated
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Glass negatives and positives
Still Image
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World map from the Medici-Laurentian atlas
Description
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Dating from the mid 13th century this is the first (extant) map to incorporate the travel reports of Marco Polo and Ibn Batuta. It shows Asia up to India, marking places like the Delhi Sultanate and others with reasonable accuracy. The atlas also shows the Caspian as a closed sea (unusual for maps of that time). It includes a depiction of the recognisable shape of the continent of Africa with remarkable precision.
The slide is labelled "British Museum Maps. 8.d.22 Laurentian Portolano"
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Morrab Library
Date
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1340-1360
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Morrab Library
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Lantern Slide
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MG.482
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https://www.photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/Angove_Collection/7731/SHIP_9.015.tif
132afaca592f999026d3227c8fd390f2
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Angove Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Angove Collection consists of over 3000 photographic prints. Collected by Dick Angove (1917-1992), a prolific writer on all aspects of Cornish life, the collection covers industrial archaeology, farming, fishing, railways, and rural life. He was an avid collector of old photographs, as well as producing his own.<br /><br />Richard Angove himself is pictured in the following photos, taken at Cable & Wireless in Porthcurno: <a href="http://library.morrab.lan/omeka/items/show/8323">Comm 4.002</a>, <a href="http://library.morrab.lan/omeka/items/show/8327">Comm 4.003</a>, <a href="http://library.morrab.lan/omeka/items/show/8334">Comm 4.005</a>, <a href="http://library.morrab.lan/omeka/items/show/8397">Comm 6.009</a>, <a href="http://library.morrab.lan/omeka/items/show/8365">Comm 8.012</a> and <a href="http://library.morrab.lan/omeka/items/show/8395">Comm 8.032</a>.<br /><br />
Still Image
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Individual Names
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RMS Queen Elizabeth II
Period Costume
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N
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SHIP 9.015
Title
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World Restaurant on QE2
Subject
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Ship
Furniture
MWork MPlayW
Date
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1960
Source
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Angove
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https://www.photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/Stanley_Opie_Archaeology/6150/O.671.tif
851eded7c6f822fbf18be5ae90143187
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Title
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Stanley Opie Archaeology
Subject
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Archaeology
Description
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The Stanley Opie Archaeology collection (1001 quarter plate glass negatives) covers archaeological sites and excavations from the 1920s to 1950s. It covers hillforts, megaliths, ancient villages, artefacts, excavations such as the Roman villa at Magor near Redruth, and Cornish cultural events such as the first Cornish Gorsedh at Boscawen-ûn in 1928.<br /><br />In 1935 Stanley entered a News Chronicle competition called "Britain 1935". A copy of his entry form was found attached to the back of a small print, listing his address, camera model and film type. He lived at Barncoose, Redruth, Cornwall, and used an Ensign Cameo No. 2 camera with Imperial Eclipse plates.<br /><br />The glass negatives were cleaned, repackaged and digitised thanks to funding from <a href="http://www.cornwallheritagetrust.org">Cornwall Heritage Trust</a>.
Creator
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Stanley Opie
Still Image
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Acknowledgements
Funding acknowledgements where appropriate.
Digitisation and conservation of the original glass negative was kindly supported by <a href="http://www.cornwallheritagetrust.org/">Cornwall Heritage Trust</a>.
URL
http://192.168.0.2/omeka/plugins/Dropbox/files/O.671.tif
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Maps
Archaeology
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Quarter Plate Glass Negative
Title
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Worldwide map showing the distribution of customs and traditions.
Description
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Worldwide map showing the distribution of customs and traditions.
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Morrab Library
Creator
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Stanley Opie
Identifier
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O.671
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https://www.photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/Richards_Collection/19448/WRECKS_32HG_048.tif
67449238f7c38902a313fabf4afc5264
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Richards Collection
Description
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The Richards Collection represents the work of one Penzance family of professional photographers over several generations - from the early 1850s until the late 1970s. It consists of several thousand negatives, glass plates and prints, covering everything intrinsic to Cornish life from fishing to flower picking and graphic views of shipwrecks as well as portraits of the people of Penzance and surrounding areas.
Still Image
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Title
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Wreck "Mina Cantaquin"
Publisher
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Morrab Library
Date
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1951-11-04
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Morrab Library
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Half Plate Glass Negative
Identifier
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WRECKS 32HG 048
Coverage
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Lizard
Description
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Group of men on shore watching Spanish coaster, wrecked at Black Head Rock later drifted to Lowland Point, near Coverack, The Lizard.
According to Spanish newspaper report (6th November 1951 - Google translation) " The Spanish ship ran aground on the Cornish coast. The ship began to sink and its seventeen crew members were saved by a British ship. The ship belonged to the registration of Gijon"
1951-1970
Seafaring and shipping
Working life
Wrecks
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https://www.photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/Miscellaneous_Photos/20135/M.2484.tif
f837aa6f1f63198056ef71e53ec44495
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Miscellaneous Photos
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Photographs which have come from multiple sources. They include a huge variety of photos of subjects which appear elsewhere.
Still Image
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Title
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Wreck City of Cardiff
Description
An account of the resource
The City of Cardiff was on passage from Dartmouth to Barry Roads in ballast when it was forced shore in heavy weather on 21 March 1912. Despite laying anchors to prevent the ship being driven further in shore under the cliffs, the cables broke and the ship ended up broadside-to. The Times newspaper reported this on 22 March 1912: 'The steamer City of Cardiff, 3,089 tons, during the strong westerly gale yesterday afternoon went ashore at Millbay, two miles south-east of Land's End, while on a voyage from Havre to Cardiff in ballast. All lives were saved by the rocket brigade who landed 23 men and two women, the wives of the Captain and the chief officer, and the latter's little child. The ship is lying under close to the cliffs on a rocky bottom.'
Source
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M Waters
Publisher
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Morrab Library
Date
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1912-03-21
Format
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Print
Type
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Photograph
Identifier
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M.2484
Coverage
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Nanjizal
Seafaring and shipping
Wrecks
-
https://www.photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/Miscellaneous_Photos/20642/M.2560.tif
b47031ca38f620ff75c55c7570fab928
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Miscellaneous Photos
Description
An account of the resource
Photographs which have come from multiple sources. They include a huge variety of photos of subjects which appear elsewhere.
Still Image
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Source
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Malcolm Waters
Publisher
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Morrab Library
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Morrab Library
Format
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Print
Type
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Photograph
Identifier
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M.2560
Title
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Wreck of fishing boat Nimrod
Description
An account of the resource
Wreck of Nimrod
Date
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01-11-1974
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Marazion
1971-1990
Seafaring and shipping
Wrecks
-
https://www.photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/Miscellaneous_Photos/5219/M.1573.tif
3716d15c47098b07ec6782e1b5975b0b
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Miscellaneous Photos
Description
An account of the resource
Photographs which have come from multiple sources. They include a huge variety of photos of subjects which appear elsewhere.
Still Image
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Item Location
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CABINET B stored in wreck section Collins Gibson prints
REF W 0201.
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Shipwreck
Description
An account of the resource
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 Channel for fifty years.
Gusting to over 100 mph, the WSW gale caught her high-riding hull as it would saild, and by 6 A.M on Boxing Day, when the Wolf Rock was sighted, she was in grave difficulities. She scraped past the Land's End Cliffs, and though water was pumped into her holds to force her deeper into the sea, she drove on. By noon the Tripolitania was inside the Lizard and, knowing she was doomed, Captain Reppito called the crew on to the bridge and told them that he was going to beach on Loe Bar.
At full speed she surged up the coast, then the wheel was put hard rescue to arrive the Italians flung a roper over the bows and though the first man who slid down was swept away, twenty-seven others got safely ashore. During the next few ays the Tripolitania was driven farther up the bar sands, but she was little damaged and the work of refloating her began. Scores of labourers dug away the sand which continually built around her, coffer dams were erected and channels cut back to the sea.
Months passed, and she still remained on the bar. In August 1913 hopes of salvage were still good, but on November 4th a south-west gale and high spring tide destroyed a year's work in a night. By dawn she had wallowed her way 300 yeards further inshore and settled down even deeper; Tripolitania was launched on the Mersey in 1905 as the Drumgarth, for John Heron & Co of Liverpool. She later became the Lord Cromer, and in December 1911 passed to Luigi Pillagura of Genoa. By a coincidence, her last captain before she was sold to the Italians was Captain J.J Beckerleg of Marazion, whose home was only half a dozen mile from Loe Bar.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 171), p. 163.
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© Morrab Library
Type
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Photograph
Identifier
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M.1573
Coverage
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Porthleven
Title
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Wreck of Tripolitania, wrecked at Loe Bar, December 18th 1912.
Publisher
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Gibsons
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1912
Wrecks
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https://www.photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/Angove_Collection/7807/Wreck_4.043.tif
e82a7a3a1b43d25074143979f0779cab
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Angove Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Angove Collection consists of over 3000 photographic prints. Collected by Dick Angove (1917-1992), a prolific writer on all aspects of Cornish life, the collection covers industrial archaeology, farming, fishing, railways, and rural life. He was an avid collector of old photographs, as well as producing his own.<br /><br />Richard Angove himself is pictured in the following photos, taken at Cable & Wireless in Porthcurno: <a href="http://library.morrab.lan/omeka/items/show/8323">Comm 4.002</a>, <a href="http://library.morrab.lan/omeka/items/show/8327">Comm 4.003</a>, <a href="http://library.morrab.lan/omeka/items/show/8334">Comm 4.005</a>, <a href="http://library.morrab.lan/omeka/items/show/8397">Comm 6.009</a>, <a href="http://library.morrab.lan/omeka/items/show/8365">Comm 8.012</a> and <a href="http://library.morrab.lan/omeka/items/show/8395">Comm 8.032</a>.<br /><br />
Still Image
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Individual Names
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Tripolitania
Period Costume
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N
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WRECK 4.043
Title
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Wreck of Tripolitania, wrecked at Loe Bar, December 18th 1912.
Subject
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Ship Steam
Beach Spectators
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1912
Coverage
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Loe Bar
Source
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Angove
Rights
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Morrab library
Format
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Print
Description
An account of the resource
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 Channel for fifty years.
Gusting to over 100 mph, the WSW gale caught her high-riding hull as it would saild, and by 6 A.M on Boxing Day, when the Wolf Rock was sighted, she was in grave difficulities. She scraped past the Land's End Cliffs, and though water was pumped into her holds to force her deeper into the sea, she drove on. By noon the Tripolitania was inside the Lizard and, knowing she was doomed, Captain Reppito called the crew on to the bridge and told them that he was going to beach on Loe Bar.
At full speed she surged up the coast, then the wheel was put hard rescue to arrive the Italians flung a roper over the bows and though the first man who slid down was swept away, twenty-seven others got safely ashore. During the next few ays the Tripolitania was driven farther up the bar sands, but she was little damaged and the work of refloating her began. Scores of labourers dug away the sand which continually built around her, coffer dams were erected and channels cut back to the sea.
Months passed, and she still remained on the bar. In August 1913 hopes of salvage were still good, but on November 4th a south-west gale and high spring tide destroyed a year's work in a night. By dawn she had wallowed her way 300 yeards further inshore and settled down even deeper; Tripolitania was launched on the Mersey in 1905 as the Drumgarth, for John Heron & Co of Liverpool. She later became the Lord Cromer, and in December 1911 passed to Luigi Pillagura of Genoa. By a coincidence, her last captain before she was sold to the Italians was Captain J.J Beckerleg of Marazion, whose home was only half a dozen mile from Loe Bar.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 171), p. 163.
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https://www.photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/Collins_Shipwreck_Collection/13198/COLLINS.201A.tif
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Collins Shipwreck Collection
Subject
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Shipwrecks
Wrecks
Still Image
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COLLINS.201A
Title
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Wreck of Tripolitania, wrecked at Loe Bar, December 18th 1912.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Steamer
Lord Cromer
Shipwreck
Wreck
Rights
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Morrab Library
Date
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1912-12-26
Coverage
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Loe Bar, Cornwall
Format
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Print
Description
An account of the resource
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 Channel for fifty years.
Gusting to over 100 mph, the WSW gale caught her high-riding hull as it would saild, and by 6 A.M on Boxing Day, when the Wolf Rock was sighted, she was in grave difficulities. She scraped past the Land's End Cliffs, and though water was pumped into her holds to force her deeper into the sea, she drove on. By noon the Tripolitania was inside the Lizard and, knowing she was doomed, Captain Reppito called the crew on to the bridge and told them that he was going to beach on Loe Bar.
At full speed she surged up the coast, then the wheel was put hard rescue to arrive the Italians flung a roper over the bows and though the first man who slid down was swept away, twenty-seven others got safely ashore. During the next few ays the Tripolitania was driven farther up the bar sands, but she was little damaged and the work of refloating her began. Scores of labourers dug away the sand which continually built around her, coffer dams were erected and channels cut back to the sea.
Months passed, and she still remained on the bar. In August 1913 hopes of salvage were still good, but on November 4th a south-west gale and high spring tide destroyed a year's work in a night. By dawn she had wallowed her way 300 yeards further inshore and settled down even deeper; Tripolitania was launched on the Mersey in 1905 as the Drumgarth, for John Heron & Co of Liverpool. She later became the Lord Cromer, and in December 1911 passed to Luigi Pillagura of Genoa. By a coincidence, her last captain before she was sold to the Italians was Captain J.J Beckerleg of Marazion, whose home was only half a dozen mile from Loe Bar.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 171), p. 163.
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https://www.photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/Collins_Shipwreck_Collection/14316/COLLINS.201B.tif
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Collins Shipwreck Collection
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Shipwrecks
Wrecks
Still Image
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Print and negative
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Title
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Wreck of Tripolitania, wrecked at Loe Bar, December 18th 1912.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Steamer
Lord Cromer
Shipwreck
Wreck
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1912-12-26
Rights
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Morrab Library
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Print
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COLLINS.201B
Coverage
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Loe Bar, Cornwall
Description
An account of the resource
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 Channel for fifty years.
Gusting to over 100 mph, the WSW gale caught her high-riding hull as it would saild, and by 6 A.M on Boxing Day, when the Wolf Rock was sighted, she was in grave difficulities. She scraped past the Land's End Cliffs, and though water was pumped into her holds to force her deeper into the sea, she drove on. By noon the Tripolitania was inside the Lizard and, knowing she was doomed, Captain Reppito called the crew on to the bridge and told them that he was going to beach on Loe Bar.
At full speed she surged up the coast, then the wheel was put hard rescue to arrive the Italians flung a roper over the bows and though the first man who slid down was swept away, twenty-seven others got safely ashore. During the next few ays the Tripolitania was driven farther up the bar sands, but she was little damaged and the work of refloating her began. Scores of labourers dug away the sand which continually built around her, coffer dams were erected and channels cut back to the sea.
Months passed, and she still remained on the bar. In August 1913 hopes of salvage were still good, but on November 4th a south-west gale and high spring tide destroyed a year's work in a night. By dawn she had wallowed her way 300 yeards further inshore and settled down even deeper; Tripolitania was launched on the Mersey in 1905 as the Drumgarth, for John Heron & Co of Liverpool. She later became the Lord Cromer, and in December 1911 passed to Luigi Pillagura of Genoa. By a coincidence, her last captain before she was sold to the Italians was Captain J.J Beckerleg of Marazion, whose home was only half a dozen mile from Loe Bar.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 171), p. 163.
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https://www.photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/Collins_Shipwreck_Collection/14317/COLLINS.201C.tif
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Collins Shipwreck Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Shipwrecks
Wrecks
Still Image
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Title
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Wreck of Tripolitania, wrecked at Loe Bar, December 18th 1912.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Steamer
Lord Cromer
Shipwreck
Wreck
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1912-12-26
Rights
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Morrab Library
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Print
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COLLINS.201C
Coverage
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Loe Bar, Cornwall
Description
An account of the resource
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 Channel for fifty years.
Gusting to over 100 mph, the WSW gale caught her high-riding hull as it would saild, and by 6 A.M on Boxing Day, when the Wolf Rock was sighted, she was in grave difficulities. She scraped past the Land's End Cliffs, and though water was pumped into her holds to force her deeper into the sea, she drove on. By noon the Tripolitania was inside the Lizard and, knowing she was doomed, Captain Reppito called the crew on to the bridge and told them that he was going to beach on Loe Bar.
At full speed she surged up the coast, then the wheel was put hard rescue to arrive the Italians flung a roper over the bows and though the first man who slid down was swept away, twenty-seven others got safely ashore. During the next few ays the Tripolitania was driven farther up the bar sands, but she was little damaged and the work of refloating her began. Scores of labourers dug away the sand which continually built around her, coffer dams were erected and channels cut back to the sea.
Months passed, and she still remained on the bar. In August 1913 hopes of salvage were still good, but on November 4th a south-west gale and high spring tide destroyed a year's work in a night. By dawn she had wallowed her way 300 yeards further inshore and settled down even deeper; Tripolitania was launched on the Mersey in 1905 as the Drumgarth, for John Heron & Co of Liverpool. She later became the Lord Cromer, and in December 1911 passed to Luigi Pillagura of Genoa. By a coincidence, her last captain before she was sold to the Italians was Captain J.J Beckerleg of Marazion, whose home was only half a dozen mile from Loe Bar.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 171), p. 163.
1911-1930
Seafaring and shipping
Wrecks
-
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Title
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Collins Shipwreck Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Shipwrecks
Wrecks
Still Image
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Original Format
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Title
A name given to the resource
Wreck of Tripolitania, wrecked at Loe Bar, December 18th 1912.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Steamer
Lord Cromer
Shipwreck
Wreck
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1912-12-26
Rights
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Morrab Library
Format
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Print
Identifier
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COLLINS.201D
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Loe Bar, Cornwall
Description
An account of the resource
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 Channel for fifty years.
Gusting to over 100 mph, the WSW gale caught her high-riding hull as it would saild, and by 6 A.M on Boxing Day, when the Wolf Rock was sighted, she was in grave difficulities. She scraped past the Land's End Cliffs, and though water was pumped into her holds to force her deeper into the sea, she drove on. By noon the Tripolitania was inside the Lizard and, knowing she was doomed, Captain Reppito called the crew on to the bridge and told them that he was going to beach on Loe Bar.
At full speed she surged up the coast, then the wheel was put hard rescue to arrive the Italians flung a roper over the bows and though the first man who slid down was swept away, twenty-seven others got safely ashore. During the next few ays the Tripolitania was driven farther up the bar sands, but she was little damaged and the work of refloating her began. Scores of labourers dug away the sand which continually built around her, coffer dams were erected and channels cut back to the sea.
Months passed, and she still remained on the bar. In August 1913 hopes of salvage were still good, but on November 4th a south-west gale and high spring tide destroyed a year's work in a night. By dawn she had wallowed her way 300 yeards further inshore and settled down even deeper; Tripolitania was launched on the Mersey in 1905 as the Drumgarth, for John Heron & Co of Liverpool. She later became the Lord Cromer, and in December 1911 passed to Luigi Pillagura of Genoa. By a coincidence, her last captain before she was sold to the Italians was Captain J.J Beckerleg of Marazion, whose home was only half a dozen mile from Loe Bar.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 171), p. 163.
1911-1930
Seafaring and shipping
Wrecks
-
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Collins Shipwreck Collection
Subject
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Shipwrecks
Wrecks
Still Image
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Original Format
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Title
A name given to the resource
Wreck of Tripolitania, wrecked at Loe Bar, December 18th 1912.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Steamer
Lord Cromer
Shipwreck
Wreck
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1912-12-26
Rights
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Morrab Library
Format
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Print
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COLLINS.201E
Coverage
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Loe Bar, Cornwall
Description
An account of the resource
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 Channel for fifty years.
Gusting to over 100 mph, the WSW gale caught her high-riding hull as it would saild, and by 6 A.M on Boxing Day, when the Wolf Rock was sighted, she was in grave difficulities. She scraped past the Land's End Cliffs, and though water was pumped into her holds to force her deeper into the sea, she drove on. By noon the Tripolitania was inside the Lizard and, knowing she was doomed, Captain Reppito called the crew on to the bridge and told them that he was going to beach on Loe Bar.
At full speed she surged up the coast, then the wheel was put hard rescue to arrive the Italians flung a roper over the bows and though the first man who slid down was swept away, twenty-seven others got safely ashore. During the next few ays the Tripolitania was driven farther up the bar sands, but she was little damaged and the work of refloating her began. Scores of labourers dug away the sand which continually built around her, coffer dams were erected and channels cut back to the sea.
Months passed, and she still remained on the bar. In August 1913 hopes of salvage were still good, but on November 4th a south-west gale and high spring tide destroyed a year's work in a night. By dawn she had wallowed her way 300 yeards further inshore and settled down even deeper; Tripolitania was launched on the Mersey in 1905 as the Drumgarth, for John Heron & Co of Liverpool. She later became the Lord Cromer, and in December 1911 passed to Luigi Pillagura of Genoa. By a coincidence, her last captain before she was sold to the Italians was Captain J.J Beckerleg of Marazion, whose home was only half a dozen mile from Loe Bar.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 171), p. 163.
1911-1930
Seafaring and shipping
Wrecks
-
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Title
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Collins Shipwreck Collection
Subject
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Shipwrecks
Wrecks
Still Image
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Title
A name given to the resource
Wreck of Tripolitania, wrecked at Loe Bar, December 18th 1912.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Steamer
Lord Cromer
Shipwreck
Wreck
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1912-12-26
Rights
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Morrab Library
Format
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Print
Identifier
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COLLINS.201F
Coverage
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Loe Bar, Cornwall
Description
An account of the resource
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 Channel for fifty years.
Gusting to over 100 mph, the WSW gale caught her high-riding hull as it would saild, and by 6 A.M on Boxing Day, when the Wolf Rock was sighted, she was in grave difficulities. She scraped past the Land's End Cliffs, and though water was pumped into her holds to force her deeper into the sea, she drove on. By noon the Tripolitania was inside the Lizard and, knowing she was doomed, Captain Reppito called the crew on to the bridge and told them that he was going to beach on Loe Bar.
At full speed she surged up the coast, then the wheel was put hard rescue to arrive the Italians flung a roper over the bows and though the first man who slid down was swept away, twenty-seven others got safely ashore. During the next few ays the Tripolitania was driven farther up the bar sands, but she was little damaged and the work of refloating her began. Scores of labourers dug away the sand which continually built around her, coffer dams were erected and channels cut back to the sea.
Months passed, and she still remained on the bar. In August 1913 hopes of salvage were still good, but on November 4th a south-west gale and high spring tide destroyed a year's work in a night. By dawn she had wallowed her way 300 yeards further inshore and settled down even deeper; Tripolitania was launched on the Mersey in 1905 as the Drumgarth, for John Heron & Co of Liverpool. She later became the Lord Cromer, and in December 1911 passed to Luigi Pillagura of Genoa. By a coincidence, her last captain before she was sold to the Italians was Captain J.J Beckerleg of Marazion, whose home was only half a dozen mile from Loe Bar.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 171), p. 163.
1911-1930
Seafaring and shipping
Wrecks
-
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Title
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Collins Shipwreck Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Shipwrecks
Wrecks
Still Image
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Original Format
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Title
A name given to the resource
Wreck of Tripolitania, wrecked at Loe Bar, December 18th 1912.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Steamer
Lord Cromer
Shipwreck
Wreck
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1912-12-26
Rights
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Morrab Library
Format
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Print
Identifier
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COLLINS.201G
Coverage
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Loe Bar, Cornwall
Description
An account of the resource
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 Channel for fifty years.
Gusting to over 100 mph, the WSW gale caught her high-riding hull as it would saild, and by 6 A.M on Boxing Day, when the Wolf Rock was sighted, she was in grave difficulities. She scraped past the Land's End Cliffs, and though water was pumped into her holds to force her deeper into the sea, she drove on. By noon the Tripolitania was inside the Lizard and, knowing she was doomed, Captain Reppito called the crew on to the bridge and told them that he was going to beach on Loe Bar.
At full speed she surged up the coast, then the wheel was put hard rescue to arrive the Italians flung a roper over the bows and though the first man who slid down was swept away, twenty-seven others got safely ashore. During the next few ays the Tripolitania was driven farther up the bar sands, but she was little damaged and the work of refloating her began. Scores of labourers dug away the sand which continually built around her, coffer dams were erected and channels cut back to the sea.
Months passed, and she still remained on the bar. In August 1913 hopes of salvage were still good, but on November 4th a south-west gale and high spring tide destroyed a year's work in a night. By dawn she had wallowed her way 300 yeards further inshore and settled down even deeper; Tripolitania was launched on the Mersey in 1905 as the Drumgarth, for John Heron & Co of Liverpool. She later became the Lord Cromer, and in December 1911 passed to Luigi Pillagura of Genoa. By a coincidence, her last captain before she was sold to the Italians was Captain J.J Beckerleg of Marazion, whose home was only half a dozen mile from Loe Bar.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 171), p. 163.
1911-1930
Seafaring and shipping
Wrecks
-
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Title
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The Ronald Garlick Newport Collection of Gibson Wreck Photographs
Description
An account of the resource
A collection of mostly shipwreck photographs mostly by Gibson of Penzance.
References:
CSI: Richard Larn & Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks, Vol 1: The South Coast, 1969
DSA: Charles Hocking, Dictionary of Disasters at Sea During the Age of Steam 1824-1962, 1969 2 volumes
PSD: David L Williams, A Dictionary of Passenger Ship Disasters, 2009
WR: Cyrill Noall & Graham Farr, Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast, 3 vols, 1964-5
Larn: Richard Larn Cornish Shipwrecks: the Isles of Scilly
Still Image
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Physical Dimensions
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8" x 11"
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Title
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Wreck of Tripolitania, wrecked at Loe Bar, December 18th 1912.
Creator
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Gibson
Date
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1912-12-26
Rights
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Morrab library
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Print
Identifier
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RGN.106
Coverage
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Loe Bar, Lizard
Subject
The topic of the resource
Shipwreck
Description
An account of the resource
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 Channel for fifty years.
Gusting to over 100 mph, the WSW gale caught her high-riding hull as it would saild, and by 6 A.M on Boxing Day, when the Wolf Rock was sighted, she was in grave difficulities. She scraped past the Land's End Cliffs, and though water was pumped into her holds to force her deeper into the sea, she drove on. By noon the Tripolitania was inside the Lizard and, knowing she was doomed, Captain Reppito called the crew on to the bridge and told them that he was going to beach on Loe Bar.
At full speed she surged up the coast, then the wheel was put hard rescue to arrive the Italians flung a roper over the bows and though the first man who slid down was swept away, twenty-seven others got safely ashore. During the next few ays the Tripolitania was driven farther up the bar sands, but she was little damaged and the work of refloating her began. Scores of labourers dug away the sand which continually built around her, coffer dams were erected and channels cut back to the sea.
Months passed, and she still remained on the bar. In August 1913 hopes of salvage were still good, but on November 4th a south-west gale and high spring tide destroyed a year's work in a night. By dawn she had wallowed her way 300 yeards further inshore and settled down even deeper; Tripolitania was launched on the Mersey in 1905 as the Drumgarth, for John Heron & Co of Liverpool. She later became the Lord Cromer, and in December 1911 passed to Luigi Pillagura of Genoa. By a coincidence, her last captain before she was sold to the Italians was Captain J.J Beckerleg of Marazion, whose home was only half a dozen mile from Loe Bar.
Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 171), p. 163.
1911-1930
Seafaring and shipping
Wrecks
-
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Title
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Miscellaneous Photos
Description
An account of the resource
Photographs which have come from multiple sources. They include a huge variety of photos of subjects which appear elsewhere.
Still Image
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Title
A name given to the resource
Wreck of Tripolitania, wrecked at Loe Bar, December 18th 1912.
Description
An account of the resource
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 Channel for fifty years. <br /><br />Gusting to over 100 mph, the WSW gale caught her high-riding hull as it would saild, and by 6 A.M on Boxing Day, when the Wolf Rock was sighted, she was in grave difficulities. She scraped past the Land's End Cliffs, and though water was pumped into her holds to force her deeper into the sea, she drove on. By noon the Tripolitania was inside the Lizard and, knowing she was doomed, Captain Reppito called the crew on to the bridge and told them that he was going to beach on Loe Bar. <br /><br />At full speed she surged up the coast, then the wheel was put hard rescue to arrive the Italians flung a roper over the bows and though the first man who slid down was swept away, twenty-seven others got safely ashore. During the next few ays the Tripolitania was driven farther up the bar sands, but she was little damaged and the work of refloating her began. Scores of labourers dug away the sand which continually built around her, coffer dams were erected and channels cut back to the sea. <br /><br />Months passed, and she still remained on the bar. In August 1913 hopes of salvage were still good, but on November 4th a south-west gale and high spring tide destroyed a year's work in a night. By dawn she had wallowed her way 300 yeards further inshore and settled down even deeper; Tripolitania was launched on the Mersey in 1905 as the Drumgarth, for John Heron & Co of Liverpool. She later became the Lord Cromer, and in December 1911 passed to Luigi Pillagura of Genoa. By a coincidence, her last captain before she was sold to the Italians was Captain J.J Beckerleg of Marazion, whose home was only half a dozen mile from Loe Bar. <br /><br />Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 171), p. 163.
Source
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Malcolm Waters
Publisher
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Morrab Library
Date
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1912-12-26
Rights
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Morrab Library
Format
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Print
Identifier
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M.2514
Coverage
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Loe Bar
1911-1930
Seafaring and shipping
Wrecks
-
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Title
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Miscellaneous Photos
Description
An account of the resource
Photographs which have come from multiple sources. They include a huge variety of photos of subjects which appear elsewhere.
Still Image
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Title
A name given to the resource
Wreck of 'Golden Gift' LT 706
Description
An account of the resource
Fishing boat build 1913 owned by W Harvey registered n Lowestoft under LT706 wrecked near Penzance.
42 Gross Tonnage
Source
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Malcolm Waters
Publisher
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Morrab Library
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1920-03-22
Rights
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Morrab Library
Format
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Print
Type
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Photograph
Identifier
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M.2516
Coverage
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Penzance
Fishing (commercial)
Seafaring and shipping
Wrecks
-
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Title
A name given to the resource
Miscellaneous Photos
Description
An account of the resource
Photographs which have come from multiple sources. They include a huge variety of photos of subjects which appear elsewhere.
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
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Title
A name given to the resource
Wreck of 'South America'
Description
An account of the resource
The South America was a steel screw steamer of 4,197 tons gross. She was owned by Nitrate Producers Company of London and had sailed from Hamburg bound for Cardiff in water ballast, under charter to the Hamburg Amerika Line.
The weather was poor until March 12th 1912, when it cleared and Captain Bowling was able to morse 'All's well' to the signal station on the Lizard. But less than half an hour later the South America was steaming through thick banks of drizzle and frequent squalls of torrential rain and having to steer a zigzag course across Mount's Bay to avoid a Newlyn pilchard fleet, strung out haphazardly from Mousehole island to Runnelstone.
At Midnight, Captain Bowling altered course northward to take the South America round Land's End. She ploughed on through the murk with the lookouts still keeping a wary eye open for the fishing boats and had just avoided a lugger lying at her nets when second officer Read saw the dark shape of land right ahead. The helm was swung hard over, but even as the steamer's 389 horse power engine was put violently into reverse there was a rumbling screech and she shuddered over the big round boulders of St. Loy Bay.
By the time it rattled down on St. Loy bay, the steamer had been identified as the South America from London. A rocket line was fired over her, but as no one was left aboard to secure it. Captain Alfred Bowling and Chief officer Thom, and second officer Harold Read, a Penzance man, swam out, climbed up a rope over the ship's side and set up the lines to work the breeches-buoy. As dawn lightened the sky above Carn Boscawen, the ship's instruments and the crew's baggage were landed and the South America was seen to be lying broadside-on near Merton Point, at the western end of St. Loy. She looked intact, but when the tide ebbed her bottom plates were seen to be badly damaged. The salvage steamer Lady of the Isles arrived, but even then it was obvious reflecting the stranded steamer would be a very difficult operation.
In the days after the wreck, prospects of salvage grew dimmer with every tide, and a gale which blew up a week later caused more serious damage. Finally, the underwriters disposed of her to the Western Marine Salvage Company of Penzance, who began to break her up.
At a Board of Trade Enquiry in May 1912, Captain Bowling and his officers levelled charged of looting at the people of St. Loy, as a number of things, including the Chief Officer Thom's Boer war medals and a large manila hawser (ship rope) had mysteriously disappeared. The medals were returned but the hawser was not, and there was talk that someone had been wrecking. These accusations were bitterly resented by the local people, many of whom had given very help and opened their homes to the shipwrecked crew. After two days, the findings of the court were announced. Captain Bowling was found guilty of not having navigated the South America with due care and in a proper and seamanlike manner; he had failed to take soundings after the shore lights were obscured and should not have altered course until he was certain of the steamer's position. In view of his previous unblemished record, he did not lose his certificate but received a severe warning. After the proceedings he withdrew his allegations about the looting of the South America.
During the spring and summer of 1912, the local people became familiar with the great hulk of the South American and the breaking gangs who swarmed over her, and many could remember similar scenes twenty years before, when the French pit wood steamer Saintonge was wrecked in the bay.
Autumn came and the South America was still slowly diminishing as the salvage men cut deeper into her steel hull. October was an even foggier month than usual that year, and it was during the dark hours of the 14th that the extraordinary wrecked occurred in St. Loy, exactly seven months after the first one. At half-past three in the morning, John Richards was roused from his bed for the second time that year by unusual noise in the bay. He thought at first that the salvage men must have raised steam on the South America, or were engaged on som particularly noisy job, but as it seemed unlikely at that hour he took the lantern he had used to guide in the South America's crew and made his way down to the shore. Thick fog swirled over the sea and it was several minutes before he saw a small steamer right against the big hulk's weather side.
Within an hour, the Lady of the Isles had arrived, towing the Newlyn Lifeboat, while the rocket cart from Mousehole had joined the inhabitants of St. Loy on the same rocks from which they had fired the line over the South America. The lifeboatmen and coastguards soon discovered that the stranded steamer was the 599- ton steel screw, schooner-rigged Abertay. Owned by Boise et Chabois of Lorient and bound for Barry with a cargo of pit wood.
Description taken from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coasts (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.203-208.
Another Account taken from 'Heritage Gateway 'https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=da9346b9-27dc-422b-b7b3-cab2112efe77&resourceID=19191
The steamer SOUTH AMERICA, bound from Hamburg to Cardiff, in ballast, went ashore in Boscanna Bay on the Cornish coast early yesterday morning. There was a thick fog at the time, and the ship got out of her course, presumably through a strong set of the tide.
'A resident on the coast heard the sound of rockets, and so close was the steamer to the shore that he hailed her and advised the crew to get into their boats. He directed them where to land by means of a lantern, and though the work of landing was attended with great danger, it was carried out without loss of life. The captain's wife and son were among the rescued. The rocket brigade was summoned from Mousehole and had a very difficult journey over hilly roads to the scene of the wreck, but before they reached the place the crew had been landed.
'The SOUTH AMERICA is a vessel of 2,700 tons register, and 7,000 tons carrying capacity. She is owned by Lowther, Latter and Co., of London. She left Hamburg on Sunday, and was due at Cardiff today. Her commander was Captain A. Bawling, of Margate. It is stated that water is in her holds and the engine-room.' (10)
'Two wrecks occurred on the Cornish coast during a fog early yesterday morning.
'In the first case the French steamer ABERTAY, from Lorient with pit props for Barry, went ashore in Boskenna Bay near Land's End, and was so near the wreck of another steamer, the SOUTH AMERICA, which went ashore at the same spot last March, that the crew were able to get on the deck of that derelict vessel.
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Malcolm Waters
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Morrab Library
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1912-03-13
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Print
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Photograph
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M.2515
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St Loy
1911-1930
Seafaring and shipping
Wrecks
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Richards Collection
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The Richards Collection represents the work of one Penzance family of professional photographers over several generations - from the early 1850s until the late 1970s. It consists of several thousand negatives, glass plates and prints, covering everything intrinsic to Cornish life from fishing to flower picking and graphic views of shipwrecks as well as portraits of the people of Penzance and surrounding areas.
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Wreck of "Bessemer City" , Wrecked at October 31st 1936
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The American steamer Bessemer City wrecked at Clodgy in 1936, was launched in 1921 by the Chickasaw Shipbuilding Company of Alabama for the US Steel Production Company.
She was steel screw steamer of 3,450 tons net, 5,686 tons gross, powered by two steam turbines, geared to a single shaft, made the Federal Shipbuilding Company of Kearney, New Jersey.
Under the ownership of the Isthmian SS Co of New York, and commanded by Captain Joseph Herman, the Bessemer City left Liverpool on the evening of October 31st 1936 for London, to complete discharging her general cargo from the USA. Twenty-four hours later she passed Godrevy light which was almost hidden by thick wintry haze, and shortly before midnight grounded heavily under Pen Enys Point.
In the weeks following, the Bessemer City broke up. Her poor complete with mast and cargo derricks, drifted under Trevalgan Cliff, and heavy seas demolished even the large forward and midship sections.
Cases of tinned fruit and salmon, boxes of raisins, sultanas and other delicacies ripened in the California sunshine, came ashore from Clodgy to Newquay. A Penzance firm recovered a lot, but a great deal more vanished into kitchen cupboards and was put to good used during the days of scarcity that followed.
Though her location was well known; the Bessemer City lay undisturbed until September 1963, when she was re-discovered by crayfish divers.
Description from Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwreck: The North Coast (London: Pen Books Ltd, 1970), p.40-41.
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Morrab Library
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1936-10-31
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Half Plate Glass Negative
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WRECKS 32HG 024
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Pen Enys Point, St Ives
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Shipwreck
1931-1950
Seafaring and shipping
Working life
Wrecks