£1,000 - £2,000
SS. Cheerful, wrecked 20th July 1885 Ingot of pure Cornish tin Double stamped with a cast Lamb and Flag at one end and ‘Williams’s, Harvey’s & Co, Hayle’ to the other. This ingot weighs 28lbs and was cast in the early 1880’s in Hayle. On 20th July 1885 at 4am in dense fog, the ss. Cheerful collided with the battleship HMS.Hecla, causing the former to sink with the loss of 3 crew and 10 passengers off St. Ives, Cornwall. Cheerful was on passage from London to Liverpool, taking on her cargo at Falmouth, which lay on the seabed in 200ft of water until located by divers. The marble mould in which it was cast survives in the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro.
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