Not knowing where you are at sea is never good but picking a fight with a lighthouse can only have one winner....

A glimmering light spotted through the murk and a ship is saved, but the Admiral, his flagship and 1400 men will not survive the night....

First and Last landlord takes first flight to Lyonesse as Dragon offers Christmas joyrides.

About 200 years ago a small coasting vessel carrying a cargo of mining equipment sailed in a leaky state into Crow Sound, Isles of Scilly. She was sinking and her crew of five were just hoping she'd make St Mary's or at least get near enough for them to save themselves. This is the Wheel Wreck......

The loss of a British Airways Helicopter, together with 20 of the 26 people on board, on a sceduled flight from Penzance to the Isles of Scilly was, until 1986, the worst civilian passenger helicopter acident in Europe.

Torrey Canyon was, in 1967, the biggest ship ever to be wrecked; two and a half times the length of a football pitch, and carrying 119,000 tons of heavy crude oil..............

In his diary entry for 1 January 1870 John Tregerthen Short of St Ives records that the Wolf Rock Light was illuminated for the first time.