Wreck of the Agnes 1886 More than two hundred and fifty vessels have come to grief along Gower's busy and treacherous coastline
While the prop and boiler can be found on the point, the starboard anchor is several 100 yards West of Whiteshell towards Caswell bay. The location of it is significant as it is at about mid tide. Lowering the starboard anchor here would have swung the steamships’ stern into shore across the current- All the crew and passengers were rescued safely so either here or further into the bay the passengers got ashore. Possibly the wrenching of the fluke away from the shaft of the anchor at this point reveals the cause of the subsequent wrecking on the point. Loss of the anchor could well have lead to the dragging of the vessel further down the point in the rip current that prevails at nearly all states of the tide . The port anchor may have been retained for anchorage in deeper water if they had cleared the point.
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Location: Whiteshell Point, Caswell Bay, Gower , Swansea, Wales, UK
Photo credit: © Holden Landscapes / Alamy / Afripics
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