Perhaps the most famous part of our archive is our collection of shipwreck photographs. From their very first interest in photography successive generations of the family have made it their business to photograph the many shipwrecks that occur around the coast of Scilly and West Cornwall. This has resulted in a fabulous pictorial record of maritime disaster that cannot be matched. Below are a few examples, for a more detailed list go to the shipwreck catalogue.

 

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004001

1912

Name of ship:

Abertaye and South America

Where wrecked:

Boskenna Bay

004002

1896

Name of ship:

Alexander Yeats

Where wrecked:

Gurnards Head

004003

1929

Name of ship:

Archangelos

Where wrecked:

Coverack

004004

1924

Name of ship:

Bardic

Where wrecked:

The Lizard

004005

1978

Name of ship:

Ben Asdale

Where wrecked:

Falmouth

004006

1894

Name of ship:

Busby

Where wrecked:

Pendeen

004007

1912

Name of ship:

City of Cardiff

Where wrecked:

Near Lands End

004008

1903

Name of ship:

Enterprise

Where wrecked:

Lelant Sands

004009

1902

Name of ship:

Fleswick

Where wrecked:

Hayle Bar

004010

1969

Name of ship:

Hemsley

Where wrecked:

Near Treyarnon Bay

004011

1918

Name of ship:

Lake Harris

Where wrecked:

Mounts Bay

004012

1952

Name of ship:

Liberty

Where wrecked:

Pendeen

004013

1899

Name of ship:

Mary Hannah

Where wrecked:

Newlyn

004014

1912

Name of ship:

Maud

Where wrecked:

Kynance Cove

004015

1972

Name of ship:

Nefilli

Where wrecked:

Lands End

004016

1910

Name of ship:

Olympe

Where wrecked:

Gunwalloe

004017

1932

Name of ship:

Omer Denise

Where wrecked:

Coverack

004018

1899

Name of ship:

Paris

Where wrecked:

Lowlands Point

004019

1907

Name of ship:

Patroclus

Where wrecked:

Portland

004020

1915

Name of ship:

Pearl

Where wrecked:

Mounts Bay

004021

1912

Name of ship:

Pindos

Where wrecked:

The Lizard

004022

1955

Name of ship:

Punta

Where wrecked:

Sevenstones

004023

1913

Name of ship:

Renown

Where wrecked:

Fistral Bay

004024

1903

Name of ship:

Renwick

Where wrecked:

Gyllyngvase

004025

1904

Name of ship:

Rosalia

Where wrecked:

Hartland

004026

1931

Name of ship:

St Anne

Where wrecked:

Porthleven

004027

1891

Name of ship:

Torbay Lass

Where wrecked:

Penzance

004028

1899

Name of ship:

Umbre

Where wrecked:

Pendeen

004029

1901

Name of ship:

Voorspoed

Where wrecked:

Perranporth

004030

1910

Name of ship:

William Cory

Where wrecked:

Pendeen