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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.
In 1972 Larn left the Royal Navy as a Chief Petty Officer/ Weapons Electrical Mechanician to pursue a career in private business. After two years as Works Director for Partech Electronics International Ltd, Charlestown, helping the Company to move to Cornwall from Wellyn Garden City, he then founded a commercial diving training centre Prodive Ltd. initially in the Long Store, Charlestown, then ...
St Anthony or Santo António was a Portuguese carrack that foundered in Gunwalloe Bay, Cornwall, in 1527 en route from Lisbon to Antwerp. She had a mixed cargo including copper and silver ingots . The wreck was recorded historically, because the salvage of the cargo was the subject of an international dispute that led to a Court of Star Chamber ...
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.
Ship Flag Sunk date Notes Coordinates USS Aeolus United States Navy August 1988 Sunk as an artificial reef. Adventure: Pirate 10 June 1718 Sloop under the command of Blackbeard.
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.
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Coverack, Cornwall: 1901–1980 The 1901 boathouse is now a Fish & Chip restaurant/ take-away. [15] Mullion Cove: Mullion Cove, Cornwall: 1867–1908 Private residence. [15] Porthleven: Porthleven, Cornwall: 1863–1929 Building later used as a shipwreck museum. Now an art studio. Marazion: St Michael's Mount, Cornwall: 1990–2001 ILB Station ...