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23 January – an unidentified troop ship, possibly one of Admiral Christian's West Indies convoy was wrecked within a cable length of Loe Bar during a ″great storm″ in Mount's Bay. The ship was carrying between 400 and 600 officers and men of the 26th Regiment of Dragoons ; not one of the crew or passengers survived.
Mevagissey (/ ˌ m ɛ v ə ˈ ɡ ɪ z i /; Cornish: Lannvorek) is a village, fishing port and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. [1] The village is approximately five miles (8 km) south of St Austell . [ 2 ]
Carlyon Bay (Cornish: Caryones, meaning forts) is a bay and a set of three beaches (Crinnis, Shorthorn and Polgaver) near St Austell on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is located approximately 2 miles (3 km) east of the town centre.
24 November – brig Spagna ( Kingdom of Italy) carrying wheat from Taganrog to Falmouth, Cornwall was embayed in SSW hurricane force winds and wrecked under Perran Cliff in Mount's Bay. [14] 24 November – brigantine Tobaco ( Prussia) saved by the lifeboat Richard Lewis (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) at Long Rock, Mount's Bay. [9]
Carlyon (Cornish: Karleghyon, [1] meaning fort of rock-slabs) is one of four new civil parishes created on 1 April 2009 for the St Austell area of south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Sketch map of the four civil parishes in the St Austell area created in 2009 - click to enlarge. The new parish is part coastal and part rural in character.
The company was founded by Christopher Furness and Henry Withy (1852–1922) in 1891 in Hartlepool. [1] This was achieved by the amalgamation of the Furness Line of steamers with the business of Edward Withy and Co., iron and steel shipbuilders and repairers, of West Hartlepool, which was founded by Edward Withy (1844-1927), Henry Withy's brother. [2]
This was the first harbour to serve the china clay industry around St Austell and has featured in several films as it is home to a heritage fleet of sailing ships. [56] After passing Carlyon Bay the path comes to the much busier china-clay exporting port of Par, where it goes inland of the dock site.
The Commonwealth and Dominion Line was formed as an amalgamation of four shipping companies on 23 January 1914, J. P. Corry & Company, Wm. Milburn & Company, Thos. B. Royden & Company and Tyser & Company. All four companies had operated routes to Australia and New Zealand, and together formed a new shipping line of 23 ships. Milburn & Co ...