The view from the access bridge to the supermarket, looking east.
Wharves/quays - each side of the canal.
14th April 2009
The access canal was excavated c1770, and the 300 foot dock built;
on the south side was a basin, filled c1950 to form the car park for Daniel/Cooperative building,
itself a warehouse of c1770.
The wharves were used by the Cornish Copper Company, then sold to Harvey's in 1867, then used for Loggans Mill grain supplies, for Hosken, Trevithick and Polkinhorn and Co Ltd.
HTP owned three ships. They were all registered at Penzance.
Ships owned by Hosken, Trevithick and Polkinghorn
1894 - ON99118, M J Hedley; two masted schooner; 143 grt, remeasured in 1907 as 178grt;
165 feet; Built 1891 Belfast (Workman Clark and Co); engines by Victor Coates; screw steamer; 68nhp; 11 knots.
[MJ Hedley was purchased by Joseph Gale of Preston in 1923, sold off in 1926.]
1896 - ON99880, Maid of Lorn/Snowflake; single mast smack; 41.96 grt; sold 1897 to Combe Martin;
66 feet; Built Glasgow 1893 (Burrell and Son); engines by Walker Henderson and Co; screw steamer; 20bhp.
[Maid of Lorn was a Clyde Puffer, she had been grounded on The Stirks in April 1896 and safely refloated;
it was at that point that she was purchased by HTP.
Why she was sold off again so quickly is not yet known, her name change to Snowflake was by her owner in Combe Martin.
Her busy life included being water carrier during WWII for troops and camps.
She eventually was sold c1945 to Bristol and thence to Greece.]
1905 - ON98599; built as Valentia; renamed Cornubia; two mast schooner; Built 1890 Dundee.
156 feet; screw steamship; 181 grt (remeasured 165.33 in 1914); WB Thompson and Co, Dundee; 70bhp; 10knots.
Raymond Forward
