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HMS Anson

Loe Bar, near Porthleven, Cornwall

A shipwreck that inspired a rocket to save lives at sea.

In December 1807 the frigate HMS Anson was driven onto Loe Bar in a storm. Watching from the shore, local man Henry Trengrouse saw sailors drown just yards from safety.

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When
29 December 1807
Where
50.0700, -5.2900
Group
Shipwrecks

Visiting

Loe Bar is on the coast path between Porthleven and Gunwalloe. Swimming there is dangerous.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

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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