"Alexander Yates"
Hawke [photographer]
Category
Photographs
Date
1896
Materials
Measurements
137 x 85 mm
Place of origin
Helston
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890432.5
Summary
A black and white photograph of the "Alexander Yates" aground under Gurnard's Head, September 1896. The three-masted barque has her sails furled and the lifeboats still on the deck. Gurnard's Head can be seen through the masts. With this photograph is a copy of two entries from FMP (Phillips?) diary dated 26th and 28th September 1896. Contained in a brown photograph album containing sixty three black and white photographs, nearly all labelled, of Cornish wrecks 1890 - 1935.
Provenance
A gift of Miss R.M. Phillips, Penzance, who also gave other nautical memorabilia to the National Trust.
Marks and inscriptions
Bottom of photograph: (in white) "ALEXANDER YATES." On reverse: (stamped in black) POSTCARD / PHOTO BY A.H. HAWKE, HELSTON. On label below photograph: (handwritten in ink) Built in 1876 at Portland N.B. which drove ashore / in fog at Gurnard's Cove Sept. 14. 1894 (this date actually written on label). She was / salved & later owned at L'pool, though possibly / as a hulk. Grahame Farr, Hon Sec. Bristol Shiplovers' Socy / Bristol 9. (SeeBreezes. June 1948) On separate piece of paper: (written in blue ink) DIARY. FMP. / Sept.26.1896 / Saw in paper that a barque was in distress / off Portreath, drifting on to shore but at 10 pm. there / were some hopes of her weathering St Ives Head. / Also that a full rigged ship the Alexander Yeats / with pitchpine had broken adrift from the tug / Gamecock in the Bristol Channel, which may / perhaps turn out to be the same one as the first. / Sept./28.1896 / Saw in paper that the distressed barque / went ashore on Gurnard's Head & all the crew / were taken off by the Rocket Apparatus. She / turned out to be the Alexander Yeats & will / become a total wreck.
Makers and roles
Hawke [photographer], photographer