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The list of shipwrecks of Cornwall lists the ships which sank on or near the coasts of mainland ... ( Barbados) was abandoned in the English Channel 10 nautical ...
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 ...
21 July – the crew of the ketch Tilly ( United Kingdom) abandoned ship when she took on water 20 miles north of Trevose Head. [20] 31 July – the French ship Socoa was stranded off Kildonan Point, Lizard in dense fog, she was re-floated after jettisoning 50000 barrels of cement and beached in Cadgwith Cove. She was later towed round to ...
New Quay (Devon) – A port on the river Tamar abandoned in the early 20th century. Morwellham Quay – A port upstream from New Quay that was partially abandoned after the closure of most of the local mines in the early 20th century, now an open-air museum. Sutreworde, mentioned in the Domesday book, but abandoned in favour of nearby Lustleigh
The List of shipwrecks of Cornwall (19th century) lists the ships which sank on or near the coasts of mainland Cornwall in that period. The list includes ships that sustained a damaged hull, which were later refloated and repaired. Southwestern England and the English Channel. For ships wrecked both before and after the 19th century see List of ...
The List of shipwrecks of Cornwall (1861–1870) lists the ships which sank on or near the coasts of mainland Cornwall in that period. The list includes ships that sustained a damaged hull, which were later refloated and repaired. Southwestern England and the English Channel
This list is for railway lines across Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which are now abandoned, closed, dismantled or disused. Within the United Kingdom, examples exist of opened railways which formerly constituted cross-country main trunk lines as well as many more which served more local, or exclusively industrial, needs.
The Great Western Railway introduced railmotor services in west Cornwall and provided several small halts at which they called. Copperhouse ( Cornish : Chi Kober ) ( 50°11′22″N 5°24′25″W / 50.1894°N 5.4070°W / 50.1894; -5.4070 ( Copperhouse Halt ) ) was one of the small halts provided for these services, opening on 1 ...