Malpas Belle (schooner)

The wooden schooner Malpas Belle, a brigantine (179 tons) built in 1872 by Nicholas Scoble Truro. The boat became stranded on Seaton beach on 3 February 1922 during a voyage from Antwerp to Penarth with a cargo of bog ore on board.

Malpas Belle on Seaton beach, 3 February 1922

On 28 October 1908, a 321 GRT steamer on a passage from Cherbourg for Poole with a cargo of stone ran into heavy seas mid-English Channel which shifted her cargo. The vessel had to be abandoned and she foundered around 04:30. The crew was saved by the schooner Malpas Belle and landed in Falmouth.[1]

This was not the first time she got into trouble. On 25 April 1916 she was rescued by the Ramsey Life-boat[2]

References
  1. "Disaster and Marine Notes". London Standard. 29 October 1908. p. 3.
  2. 1 The Life-boat magazine 1917
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