First Series

The First Series appeared in Issues 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 on wood boxes. Click here for a list of all the Wreck labels.

Cornish Wreck labels – First Series
No. Name of Wreck Date of Wreck Detail
1 City of Paris 1st May 1899 S.S. 10,500 tons
2 Adolph Vinnen 9th February 1923 1525 tons square rigged
3 William 24th November 1865 Brigantine of Sunderland
4 River Lune 27th July 1879 Barque of Liverpool
5 Petrellen 1st February 1885 Barque 335 tons of Porsgrund, Norway
6 Jeune Hortense 17th May 1888 Brigantine of Nantes
7 Escurial 25th January 1895 S.S. 1,187 tons of Glasgow
8 Jessie McClew 2nd October 1895 Schooner
9 Granite State 4th November 1895 S.S. 1,642 tons of Portsmouth, New Hampshire
10 Bluejacket 10th November 1898 S.S. 2,090 tons of Cardiff
11 Llandaff 2nd October 1899 397 tons of Cardiff
12 Marie Celene 19th January 1901 French schooner of Nantes
13 President Garfield 14th March 1906 Ketch of Bideford
14 Susan Elizabeth 16th October 1907 Schooner 130 tons of Saint Ives
15 Hodbarrow Miner 6th March 1908 Schooner of Barrow
16 Olympe 3rd October 1910 French schooner of Lannion
17 Saluto 13th December 1911 Norwegian barque of Christiansand 826 tons
18 Lake Harris 5th November 1918 American freighter
19 Longships 22nd December 1939 Steamship of Glasgow (Clyde Steamship Co.)
20 Torrey Canyon 18th March 1967 Tanker