Shipwreck Map of Whitsand Bay and the Looe and Polperro area.

On this page you will find information about the poster : Shipwrecks around Looe, Polperro and Whitsand Bay. Many wrecks sites are identified and illustrated.

Wreck place names: Whitsand Bay, Talland Bay, Portnadler Bay,Looe Bay, Rame, Queener, Polhawn, Tregonhawke, Freathy, Crafthole, Sharrow, The Brawn, The Longstone, Downderry, Seaton, Millendreath, Chough Rock, Hannafore, St Georges Island, Looe Island, Hore Stone. 

Wreck names:(extracts) Gipsy, Bellissima, James Egan Lane,Scylla, Marguerite, HMS A7, Wolf, Albion, Josiah and Betty, Hope, HMS Cossack, Lady of the Lake, Prarie Flower, La Victoire, Zarita, Rosehill, Naiad, Speedwell, Mary Ann, Del Freide, Sappho, Harmonie, Quebec of Maine, Chancellor, Endeavour, Albermarle, Shepherdess......and many more. 

Large view of the poster

Egan Lane wreck

Posters are £17

Available from my eBay page

or email me below

       Buy at: BosunsLocker, Looe    

                          Tel: 01503 263011,

 E-Mail: mail@bosunslockerlooe.co.uk

or at Bosco Books,

The Old Hall Bookshop, Shutta Rd., Looe, Cornwall PL13 1BJ

and Riverside Gallery, Looe

Shipwrecks around Whitsand Bay, Looe and Polperro,  took me over two years  to research and complete. The chart has hundreds of reference details, including names and dates of shipwrecks, types of cargo from coffee, brandy and silver to coal, granite or bones.

There are illustrations of heroic lifeboat rescues in hurricane force winds and mountainous sea, to collisions, and groundings of Titanic like liners in fog bound flat conditions. I refer to ‘False lights’ wreckers and smuggling, and the origin of vessels from the U.S.A. Canada, South America, France, Germany, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Greece India and Africa. The poster is now available framed, signed and dated. 

 The original poster has much more detail and quality, but to avoid indiscriminate copying, I have deliberately kept images to a low resolution. 

HMS Scylla  2,500 tons. was sunk in Whitsand Bay 27th March 2004.  A series of explosives  sent her 25metres onto the sandy sea bed.

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