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Valhalla The Scillies lies forty miles from the tip of Lands End and on the charts this group of 145 islands resembles a handful of large boulders scattered into the sea by an angry giant. With fierce seas, strong tides and often blanketed in fog, the

The Scilly Isles has probably got more ship wrecks per square mile that any other place on earth, and its relative remoteness, 20 miles of the Cornish coast, lends the islands an old world charm that is very beguiling.

The most seaward rock north west from Bryher is the Maiden Bower, and on her rocky crest many a ship has foundered, usually in thick fog. Around midnight on the 16 April 1894 fog again shrouded the Maiden Bower tricking

The Poleire was a Cypriot motor vessel of some 2300 tons. In April 1970 she was on a voyage from Ireland to Gdynia in Poland carrying a cargo of zinc ore when she struck the Little Kettle Rock, which lies just north

Anyone looking at a chart of the Scilly 1sles soon realizes that this small Island group is just one huge trap. Over the centuries well over two thousand ships have been wrecked around it's trecherous shore, giving

On the 10 January I814the 645 ton wooden sailing ship Minnehaha had reached Falmouth with a cargo of Guano after a long voyage from Callao in Peru. On the following day she set off Ï…r Dublin, where she was due to

1917 had not been a good year for England. The Great War was well into it's third year, and the carnage on the battlefields of France was at it's highest. At sea, ships were being torpedoed and sunk in ever increasing

The Blazer was an old steam tug of 283 tons. She had been built by S.M. Knight of Ayr in 1888. She was formerly called the Charm and operated out of Liverpool. She sank on the 10 November 1918 close inshore near the