The Danish steamer G. Koch (1888) aground off Dolor Point, Coverack
An elevated starboard side view, just forward of the broadside, of the Danish cargo steamer G Koch (1888) ashore alongside Dolor Point in Perprean Cove, at low tide. The photographer was standing on the shoreline below the houses on Dolor Point, Coverack. In the background is Chrynshall Point.
G Koch was bound from Hamburg to Cardiff with a load of coal for Las Palmas when it ran aground off Dolor Point on 7 March 1904. It was refloated two weeks later by the Western Marine Salvage Co and continued trading until wrecked near the Girdleness Lighthouse, Aberdeen in January 1913 with the loss of seven lives.
G Koch was bound from Hamburg to Cardiff with a load of coal for Las Palmas when it ran aground off Dolor Point on 7 March 1904. It was refloated two weeks later by the Western Marine Salvage Co and continued trading until wrecked near the Girdleness Lighthouse, Aberdeen in January 1913 with the loss of seven lives.
Object Details
ID: | G14282 |
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Collection: | Historic Photographs |
Type: | Glass plate negative |
Display location: | Not on display |
Creator: | Gibson & Sons of Scilly |
Date made: | March 1904 |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Gibson's of Scilly Shipwreck Collection |
Measurements: | Overall: 6 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in |
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