The sailing ship Cromdale (1891) totally dismasted and mostly submerged off Bass Point.

An elevated port bow view, taken from the cliffs, of the three-masted sailing ship Cromdale (1891) mostly submerged on the rocks at Bass Point below the Lloyd's Signal Station, just south-east of Lizard, Cornwall. The ship is completely dismasted and the hull is underwater with the exception of the upper works of the forecastle. The wash from the waves rolling back from the cliffs has calmed the seas enough that the outline of the ship's bulwarks can be seen. A wave is beginning to break on the area where the poop was.

The Cromdale was sailing from Chile to Falmouth with a cargo of nitrates when it ran into the rocks below the Signal Station at Bass Point in dense fog. The crew took to the ship's lifeboats. The lifeboats from Lizard and Cadgwith put crew on board to rescue personal belongings but were removed as the ship was settling in the water. The wreck broke up on 30 May 1913.

Object Details

ID: G14061
Collection: Historic Photographs
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Gibson & Sons of Scilly
Vessels: Cromdale (1891)
Date made: 30 May 1913
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Gibson's of Scilly Shipwreck Collection
Measurements: Overall: 254 mm x 304 mm