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    Shipwrecks on Scilly

    Dec 19, 2024 2 minutes
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    The imposing Bishop Rock lighthouse was built during the 19th century to warn ships of the dangerous rocks around this craggy archipelago

     

    Around 30 figureheads from ships wrecked around Scilly have been preserved in the Valhalla collection in Tresco Abbey Garden

     

    The wreck of a wooden ship in the 1910s, one of the hundreds of vessels that fell victim to the rocks around the Isles of Scilly

     

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