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This is a list of people from Cornwall, a ceremonial county of England. Those included are either native Cornish people or others who have been long-term residents. The demonym of Cornwall is Cornish .
12 April 1889 – The fishing brig Amelia ( France) was abandoned at sea and foundered off The Lizard. The captain and twenty-one crew were landed at Plymouth by the steamer Lysgand ( Belgium). [111] 30 August 1889 – The steamer Asia ( Denmark) struck the Vyneck, near Cape Cornwall and sank with the loss of two crew. The remaining twenty crew ...
Great Cornish Families: A History of the People and Their Houses is a book by Crispin Gill, published in 1995. [1] A second edition was published in 2011 ( ISBN 978-0-85704-083-1 ). Crispin Gill, at the time of the book's publication, lived in Plymouth and was assistant editor of the Western Morning News .
Large quantities of wreckage were washed up including dead horses with D26 brands on their hooves. It is estimated that over 600 people died including nine people on shore. [41] 23 January – a 300-ton ship from Bremen ran aground on Cairn Jenny, near the Abbey Slip, Penzance, Cornwall. [78]
List of shipwrecks: 18 March 1878 Ship State Description Auspicious United Kingdom: The abandoned ship foundered off Padstow, Cornwall. [50] Charles T. Russell United States: The barque caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued by Charles Cotesworth ( United Kingdom).
She was blown in half by salvagers using dynamite and the stern section taken to Southampton to be assembled to a new bow while the old bow was abandoned to the sea. Four lifeboats (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) saved 456 people from the wreck (the largest number ever saved by the RNLI from a single vessel). She also carried a cargo of ...
Cornwall portal People who are closely associated with Cornwall or identified themselves with Cornwall, but who were not necessarily actually born or raised there. For more information, see List of Cornish people .
Pages in category "Cornwall-related biographical lists" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .