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The SS Schiller

Retarrier Ledges, Isles of Scilly

A German liner lost in fog, and the islanders who buried its dead.

The German liner Schiller was sailing from New York to Hamburg when she struck the rocks of the Scilly Isles in thick fog. Around 335 people died, one of the worst disasters in the islands' history.

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When
7 May 1875
Where
49.8800, -6.4300
Group
Shipwrecks

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The memorial is in Old Town churchyard, St Mary's.

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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