Khyber

What an image. The utter imminent destruction of a man made object brought to a scene of utter desolation by nature. Yet people still challenge the one last frontier . That is where were came from. Tis human nature - long may it prevail say I.

Khyber, iron full rig ship.
1,967 tons
launched WH Potter, Merseyside 1880.
1899, owned by Calgate Shipping and set off 16th September 1904, from Wlliamstown River Yarra, Melbourne, bound for Queenstown, Ireland, awaiting orders. She had 3,000 tons of wheat from Victoria aboard.
She was running well over her time by now, at 138 instead of 110 days.
She had been struggling through violent seas and winds past Wolf Rock 14th March 1905, she had been seen in Porthleven and James Quick (lifeboat skipper) wired for Falmouth for help; unable to help, the ship was seen rounding The Lizard into the darkness, it was touch and go through the storm and the heavy rain. At dawn the ship was nigh on the rocks near Porthgwarra. Her upper decks were taken by a sea, smashed midships and her boats were wrecked in their cradles. Men struggled on shore to reach her via Sennen, but the sea had thrown boulders across the slip; they took the road to St Leven, but as they passed out of the village, the ship struck rocks at Portloe. It was 7am, a huge sea took the ship and tossed it around dropping her stern on the rocks. The hull split and the sea roared in, parting the ship. It took fifteen minutes to change the ship into a pile of debris and wheat. Three of the 26 crew got away, the rest perished. John Harries an 18 year old, Gustavus Johannsen and the ship's boy Leonard Willis. Some bodies were found and buried at St Leven Church, by the tower. Myself, I do not think that we have an awful lot about which to complain in our comfortable world. I have immense respect for fishermen and sailors.
There is a picture taken by Gibson, when the storm dropped fully, of the foreshore and cliff, and all that is left is a pile of 'matchwood'.