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The Mohegan and the Manacles

The Manacles, near St Keverne, Cornwall

A deadly reef where a liner steered straight onto the rocks.

The Manacles are a reef off the Lizard that has wrecked over 100 ships. On 14 October 1898 the liner Mohegan, only a day out from London, steered straight onto them at full speed, for reasons that have never been explained.

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When
14 October 1898
Where
50.0400, -5.0400
Group
Shipwrecks

Visiting

St Keverne churchyard has a memorial. Dive trips visit the wreck.

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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