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The Isles of Scilly - Shipwrecks and Valhalla
The Isles of Scilly are the site of many, many shipwrecks over the years - there are 530 registered wrecks around the archipelago. The best known is probably the shipwrecking of the Association on 22nd October 1707. She was part of Sir Cloudesley Shovell's English Fleet that took part in the seige of Toulon and ran aground on the Gilstone Ledges near Bishop Rock - with others - after they mistook Scilly for the mouth of the English Channel. The channels between St. Mary's and St. Agnes/Gugh - the 'Spanish' and 'Bartholomew Ledges' and also between Tresco and Bryher hold the highest concentation of shipswrecks with a large number also occupying the area west of Annet. An excellent guidebook to shipwrecks on Scilly is the Ships, Shipwrecks and Maritime Incidents around the Isles of Scilly - Isles of Scilly Museum Publication No.3 - the book contains over 140 pages set out chronologically making wreck history very easy to follow. The following tables give a small indication of just some of the larger shipwrecks around the Islands in the last 300 years or so:- Table 1: St. Mary's - St. Agnes - Annet Area
Table 2: Bryher - Tresco - St. Martin's Area
More information about the Isles of Scilly: A Photographic tour of St. Mary's |
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