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The Shipwreck Treasure Museum (previously the Charlestown Shipwreck & Heritage Centre) located in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Charlestown, Cornwall, England, is a historical museum housing over 8,000 artifacts from over 150 different shipwrecks.
Gibsons of Scilly (1974) Shipwreck; text by John Fowles; photography by the Gibsons of Scilly. London: Jonathan Cape ISBN 0 224 01053 0 (includes photographs of shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly and west Cornwall between 1872 and 1914; also the Torrey Canyon, 1967) Tangye, Nigel (1977) From Rock and Tempest.
The Santo Christo de Castello was a mid‐17th century Genoese merchant ship sailing from Amsterdam that was wrecked on its maiden near Mullion Cove, Cornwall, England in 1667. In the late 17th and 18th centuries various efforts were made to recover the silver it was said to have carried.
Ancestry.com records shows the list of those who died in this shipwreck, and the total listed as D.W. (death by total wreck) was eleven. [citation needed] September – a ship's boat with the name Pensee-Augrey was found at St Ives on 1 October and wreckage was washed ashore. A body of a young man was found at Hawke's Point. [52] November
A rare ingot of Cornish tin salvaged from the shipwreck that killed the brother of poet William Wordsworth will be put up for auction this week. ... Between the 1700s and the 1800s Cornwall’s ...
The Diver Guide to South Cornwall. Underwater Publications, 1983, 1987 & 1996; The Diver Guide to the Isles of Scilly & North Cornwall. Underwater Publications, 2002; The Wrecks of Scilly, Shipwreck & Marine, 2010; Shipwreck Index of the British Isles – Lloyd's Register of Shipping. Volume 1 'The West Country', 1995 ISBN 0-900528-88-5
The event also includes a Q&A session with an underwater archeologist and hands-on shipwreck activities. Shipwreck Day will take place 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 20 at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum ...
An estimated 25–30 vessels were lost on the Manacles off the east Lizard coast between about 1810 and 1855 with the loss of 700 to 800 lives. [1]Between 1823 and 1846 almost 150 vessels were lost between Land's End and Trevose Head.