Greetings, from Newquay, Cornwall, UK

[Penry]

Hi all,
Greetings from Cornwall, UK!
I live on the coast in a region renowned for a savage coastline, leading to an abundance of shipwrecks over the last few hundred years - It's the sticky out bit at the bottom left of England which points towards Puerto Rica!
There is a well documented legacy of an abundance of smuggling and piracy around these parts, with a ridiculous amount of stories of lost treasures, both seabound losses and inland (which all need finding)
Im an amatuer/beginner "detectorist" having only recently bought, and still learning to use metal detecting gadgetry, whilst preferring to spend my time with my head in books, or historical archives.
Close enough to "Kressen Kernow" to be able to pop in for research, whilst throughout Cornwall we're never more than 10 miles from the sea and local wreck sites.
Currently researching the possibility that Henry Avery may have ended his days close to here, and the elusive (but historically confirmed) exact location of a chest of mid 18th century Spanish Gold coins which are known to be under the sands of a nearby beach.

 

[vpnavy]

Hi all, Greetings from Cornwall, UK!...

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[E-Trac-Ohio]

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[teleprospector]

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[djackson7348]

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[troutbum]

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[Gare]

Greetings Penry from Ohio USA !!!

 

[Mackaydon]

Merry Christmas from SoCal Don......

 

[tahomatom]

Hi all,
Greetings from Cornwall, UK!
I live on the coast in a region renowned for a savage coastline, leading to an abundance of shipwrecks over the last few hundred years - It's the sticky out bit at the bottom left of England which points towards Puerto Rica!
There is a well documented legacy of an abundance of smuggling and piracy around these parts, with a ridiculous amount of stories of lost treasures, both seabound losses and inland (which all need finding)
Im an amatuer/beginner "detectorist" having only recently bought, and still learning to use metal detecting gadgetry, whilst preferring to spend my time with my head in books, or historical archives.
Close enough to "Kressen Kernow" to be able to pop in for research, whilst throughout Cornwall we're never more than 10 miles from the sea and local wreck sites.
Currently researching the possibility that Henry Avery may have ended his days close to here, and the elusive (but historically confirmed) exact location of a chest of mid 18th century Spanish Gold coins which are known to be under the sands of a nearby beach.

Welcome to the world of detecting. Books/ history have always captured my interest. Not to mention gold under the beach sand.
One thing I can say you always make finds in the most unsuspecting places.
Good luck and learn your machine.

 

[elthesalmon]

Welcome from Salmon!
-though ts my new account I'm studying cornwall shipwreck history recently

 

[Penry]

Welcome from Salmon!
-though ts my new account I'm studying cornwall shipwreck history recently

Hi ! That must be a huge topic to study! I found a great book in the Kressen Kernow archive's public library.. containing just a list of boat names, nationality, wreck dates, locations and latterly, when recorded, lives lost.. dating back to the 17th century. (It's a very big book).
It didn't have either of the wrecks that gave names to features on my local beach,, despite it's many thousands of entries.
"Whipsiderry Beach, (southern section of Tregurian Beach in Watergate Bay). Theres a rock called Dollar Rock, supposedly named after an American Scooner wreck, and the silver Dollars found nearby for years. And Norwegian Rock, (which is more a small Island), the resting place of an unknown Norwegian ship over 200 years ago..

 

[elthesalmon]

Hi ! That must be a huge topic to study! I found a great book in the Kressen Kernow archive's public library.. containing just a list of boat names, nationality, wreck dates, locations and latterly, when recorded, lives lost.. dating back to the 17th century. (It's a very big book).
It didn't have either of the wrecks that gave names to features on my local beach,, despite it's many thousands of entries.
"Whipsiderry Beach, (southern section of Tregurian Beach in Watergate Bay). Theres a rock called Dollar Rock, supposedly named after an American Scooner wreck, and the silver Dollars found nearby for years. And Norwegian Rock, (which is more a small Island), the resting place of an unknown Norwegian ship over 200 years ago..

Hi Penry, that sounds like a wonderful document about wrecks! I'm curious what's the book title if it's digitised for download.
And where's your beach is it close to Dartmouth port? Here I obtained an old survey chart earlier with quite amount of hand-written marks, almost of them were unidentified including pencil noted soundings with cross&line marks excepted from official survey samples. Time of that event were started during late c19th to mid c20th last for years.(chart only, I didn't find the logbook) no owner's signature nor commercial/casual fishing notes left.
Then I measured highlighted locations on it comparing with similar modern maps on iboating, usgs and imray's(a private chart-publishing company in UK). some of those recorrections are actually ambiguous, or absolutly not aiming for that. If the group were chasing for sth under water... several latest clear pencil marks showed they've succeeded with silent ending. otherwise it's just another hobbyist's heritage.

Salmon

 

[Penry]

Hi Penry, that sounds like a wonderful document about wrecks! I'm curious what's the book title if it's digitised for download.
And where's your beach is it close to Dartmouth port? Here I obtained an old survey chart earlier with quite amount of hand-written marks, almost of them were unidentified including pencil noted soundings with cross&line marks excepted from official survey samples. Time of that event were started during late c19th to mid c20th last for years.(chart only, I didn't find the logbook) no owner's signature nor commercial/casual fishing notes left.
Then I measured highlighted locations on it comparing with similar modern maps on iboating, usgs and imray's(a private chart-publishing company in UK). some of those recorrections are actually ambiguous, or absolutly not aiming for that. If the group were chasing for sth under water... several latest clear pencil marks showed they've succeeded with silent ending. otherwise it's just another hobbyist's heritage.

Salmon

Hi Salom,
I've just been through my Kressen Visit photos and notes, and i unfortunatly haven't kept specifics of that book (I will ensure on my next visit to Kressen, to find it again and let you know!)
I am a long way from Dartmouth. (Thats in Devon, it's almost a different country! despite it being Cornwalls only adjavent neighbour within the british isles...) they even put the Jam and Cream the wrong way around on their scones over there!!!! , which appears to have been the main basis of the ongoing historical, and perpetual divide that distinguishes Cornwall, from the rest of the UK (especially Devon, our closest neighbour, and Dartmouth which is within it!)
I love old maps with personalised mark!, and whilst i have no Dartmouth related knowledge to share with you, I'd suggest a dedicated delve into the maps now held online by the National Libray of Scotland (who strangely hold old more maps of england, than england does itself). They have their own website with searchable old maps, but i usually access their content through a website called www.oldmapsonline.org -

 

[elthesalmon]

Sure I'll wait for title and details of that book.
You're right that's far between Devon and Dartmouth port you can get a bus there for holiday:-). I'm here nearby HK and canton-china recently, it's literally too far off,, and it's unlikely dig here cuz legal issues.
How about that scone? I'll visit Uk again and Devon next time to drill into Cornish history straightly away from stacks of academic paper, for my further research about historic Atlantic islands and maybe friends there.
And this chart, I'm glad you like it! that's where it came from, west Cornwall, I purchased it at online auction. here checked times with bathymetry datasets on etopo and emodnet bathy for terrain scan but they're not yet uploaded or might even not being scanned(IDK). See picture. another limerec. only depth hits perfectly. up to 60m, as 32+fam

 

[Penry]

Sure I'll wait for title and details of that book.

I visited again this week, It is spread across many volumes with an accompanying card index which partially alphabetizes the entries

 

[elthesalmon]

I visited again this week, It is spread across many volumes with an accompanying card index which partially alphabetizes the entries
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It is no traceable letters on that document but "log+numbers". I would like to send you pictures of this area which I haven't laid on my post. some of them at the east of Falmouth and island Ushant.
Salmon