Lizard Diver – Diving Cornwall
Falmouth – Manacles – Lizard Point – Mullion – Mounts Bay


Lizard Area Wrecks
wrecks, wrecks, wrecks…….
Britain’s past as a trading nation has left the Cornish coast littered with the tragic remains of shipping accidents. Nowhere has a greater density of wrecks than around The Lizard Point itself, where you could dive a different wreck every day of your holiday. There are wrecks to suit all grades of diver, at virtually all stages of the tide.
Wreck | Type/Hull/Size (tons) | where | Depth (m) | Year of Loss |
Adolf Vinnen | Schooner Steel | Bass Point | 12 | 1923 |
HMS Anson | Royal Navy Sailing ship | Loe Bar | 9 | 1807 |
Bellucia | Steamship Steel (4,368) | Cadgwith | 15 | 1917 |
Carmarthen | Steamship | Black Head | 20 | 1917 |
Citrine | Steel Coaster | Cadgwith | 23 | 1956 |
City of Ghent | Steel Coaster | Cadgwith | 30 | 1955 |
Clan Malcom | Steamship Steel (5,994) | Bass Point | 12 | 1935 |
Czar | Barque Rigged Steamship (1,100) | Vrogue Rock Bass Point | 16 | 1859 |
Denise | Steamship Steel (1,598) | Mullion | 16 | 1918 |
Gunvor | 3-masted Barque | Black Head | 7 | 1912 |
Hansy | Square-Rigged Barque Wood/Steel | Housel Bay | 10 | 1911 |
Ibis | Steamship Steel (2,358) | Mullion | 31 | 1918 |
Ilston | Armed Steamship Steel (2,426) | Lizard Point | 50 | 1917 |
Le Vieux Tigre | Steam Trawler Steel | Bass Point | 7 | 1935 |
Mohegan | Passenger Liner Steel | Manacles | 18 – 30 | 1898 |
Mosel | Liner Steel (3,200) | Bass Point | 11 | 1882 |
Rock Island Bridge | Steamship Steel | Helford | 10 | 1920 |
Royal Anne Galley | Royal Navy Galley (Oared fighting ship) | Lizard Point | 9 | 1721 |
Spyridon Vagliano | Steamship Steel | Manacles | 18 | 1890 |
Suffolk | Schooner-Rigged Steamship Wood/Steel (2,924) | Lizard Point | 12 | 1886 |
Veritas | Steamship – Iron | Coverack | 36 | 1907 |
Volnay | Steamship Steel (4,610) | Porthallow | 21 | 1917 |
DEEP WRECKS
WRECK DIVING SAFETY – as with all other dive specialities, wreck diving requires specific skills and foreknowledge to make it a safe pursuit. Lizard Diver’s 25 years of diving such wrecks means that you can dive with safety at your side.
Lizard Diver Touches The Past…

Gold coins & pocket watch face recovered from the Royal Anne Galley
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A Piece of Eight recovered from the Rill Cove historic wreck site.