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The Herzogin Cecilie

Starehole Bay, near Salcombe, Devon

One of the last great sailing ships, wrecked on the Devon coast.

The Herzogin Cecilie was a Finnish four-masted sailing ship, one of the fastest of the last great 'windjammers' carrying grain from Australia. In April 1936, after a record-breaking voyage, she ran aground in fog off Bolt Head.

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When
April 1936
Where
50.2100, -3.8300
Group
Shipwrecks

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Starehole Bay is on the South West Coast Path near Salcombe.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
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Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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