eBay Buy It - Historic Cornwall Shipwrecks Falmouth Castle 1919

Falmouth Castle was the British coaster carrying coal that wrecked on Lee Ore Reef and beached at Porthcurno, West Cornwall, Great Britain in 1919. Coaster is a shallow-hulled ship used to get through reefs.

eBay Buy It Price at £20.00, or approximately US $32.48 for 1 piece of used with postage at £2.00 by Royal Mail Airmail.

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eBay UK Auction - Historic Cornwall Shipwrecks Cromdale 1913



Cromdale was the British barque carrying nitrates from Chile that ran aground off Lizard Point, Cornwall, Great Britain in 1913. Barque, a French word, refers to a type of 19th-century deep-water sailing vessel having three masts powered by the wind.

eBay UK Auction Price at £14.00 for 1 piece of used with postage at £1.50 by expedited shipping.

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Postcrossing GB-192241 from U.K.

Postcard Delight presents this postcard of a British historic barque, a type of sailing ship, named Cromdale wrecked in 1913, without loss of life, off the Lizard in thick fog while carrying nitrates from Chile. The Lizard is a peninsula, in south Cornwall jutting into the English Channel, with coast full of cliffs and underwater reefs which posed hazardous to shipping.

Quote at the back of this postcard
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"Historic Cornwall
Shipwrecks ~ Cromdale - 1913
The Cromdale was wracked on the Lizard om 23rd May 1913. It was carrying nitrates when it ran aground. A gale a week later caused its total destruction."

This postcard was my third postcard received from a postcrosser provided by Postcrossing, a postcard exchange project.

Postcard received on January 17th., 2011

Distance between U.K. and Malaysia : 10,573km (6,570 miles)



Denote:= From U.K.

Denote:= To Malaysia

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