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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 (Cornish: Porthmeur West) is a village and port on the south coast of Cornwall, England, in the civil parish of St Austell Bay. It is situated approximately 2 miles (3 km) southeast of St Austell town centre. [1] The port at Charlestown developed in the late 18th century from the fishing village of West Polmear.
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.
7 May – schooner Endeavour ( United Kingdom) was wrecked between Gribben Head and Polkerris, Cornwall with the loss of all three crew. She was on a voyage from Dartmouth, Devon to Charlestown, Cornwall. [122] 22 July – emigrant iron steamer Zebra was a total wreck on the Lizard. The passengers were probably picked up by Falmouth tugs. [123]
1 December – sailing ship Indiana ( France) en route from Cardiff to La Rochelle with coal sunk by UB-18, (commander: Claus Lafrenz Imperial German Navy). Report says she sank off St Ives, map shows north of Trevose Head. [64]
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A double-side medallion with the images of the saints Francis of Assisi and Anthony of Padua was recovered. [12] In the summer of 1974 divers found a bronze statuette and a miniature bronze tobacco pipe from a matrix below one of the cannons. [3] The Shipwreck Centre in Charlestown, Cornwall holds a collection of objects recovered from the ...