Shipwreck
Map of Whitsand Bay and the Looe and
Polperro area.
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Large view of the poster |

Egan
Lane wreck |
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| Posters are £12.
Available from my eBay page
or email me below
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or at Bosco Books, The Old
Hall Bookshop, Shutta Rd., Looe, Cornwall PL13 1BJ
and Riverside Gallery, Looe |
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Shipwrecks around
Whitsand Bay, Looe and
Polperro, took me over two years to
research and
complete. The chart has hundreds of
reference details, including names and dates of shipwrecks, types of cargo
from coffee, brandy and silver to coal, granite or bones.
There are
illustrations of heroic lifeboat rescues in hurricane force winds and
mountainous sea, to collisions, and groundings of Titanic like liners in
fog bound flat conditions. I refer to ‘False lights’ wreckers and
smuggling, and the origin of vessels from the U.S.A. Canada, South
America, France, Germany, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Greece India
and Africa. The poster is now available framed, signed and dated.
The
original poster has much more detail and quality, but to avoid
indiscriminate copying, I have deliberately kept images to a low
resolution.
HMS
Scylla 2,500 tons. was sunk in Whitsand Bay 27th March 2004. A
series of explosives sent her 25metres onto the sandy sea bed.
Plymouth
Wreck Poster
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Wreck place names: Whitsand Bay, Talland
Bay, Portnadler Bay,Looe Bay, Rame, Queener, Polhawn, Tregonhawke, Freathy,
Crafthole, Sharrow, The Brawn, The Longstone, Downderry, Seaton, Millendreath,
Chough Rock, Hannafore, St Georges Island, Looe Island, Hore Stone.
Wreck names:(extracts) Gipsy,
Bellissima, James Egan Lane,Scylla, Marguerite, HMS A7, Wolf, Albion, Josiah and Betty,
Hope, HMS Cossack, Lady of the Lake, Prarie Flower, La Victoire, Zarita,
Rosehill, Naiad, Speedwell, Mary Ann, Del Freide, Sappho, Harmonie, Quebec of
Maine, Chancellor, Endeavour, Albermarle, Shepherdess......and many more.
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