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Charlestown Shipwreck and Heritage Centre. 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.
Charlestown – a Visitors Guide, 1994; Shipwreck & Marine Publishing Poor England has lost so Many Men, 2007; Cornwall's Shipwrecks – the North Coast, 2009; Cornwall's Shipwrecks – the South Coast, 2009; Henry Trengrouse – a biography, 2006; Wreck & Rescue round the Cornish Coast, 2006; Augustus John Smith – a short biography, 2013
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
While exploring a 500-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Sweden, divers discovered “surprising” cargo and weapons that may have helped repel pirates.
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The wreck was located in 1981 and a selection of her cargo can be seen in the Charlestown Shipwreck, Rescue and Heritage Centre, Charlestown. [11] Also reported as Saint Andrew and sinking on 19 January 1526. [33] The site is designated under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973. [34]