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. The corners of the image are black.

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: G14000
Collection: Historic Photographs
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Gibson & Sons of Scilly
Vessels: G Koch (1888)
Date made: March 1904
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Gibson's of Scilly Shipwreck Collection
Measurements: Overall: 254 mm x 304 mm