Blackpool shipwrecks

For this article, Blackpool means the stretch of coast from Fleetwood to Lytham St Annes.

[1] The schooner William Henry was wrecked at South Shore, laden with flour and lard.

[1] The brig Favourite, of Liverpool was wrecked off Blackpool on 22 November 1865 with the loss of ten crew.

[4][7] The anchor from the ship was donated to the Borough of Middleton and can be seen resting against the library wall in Long Street.

Mr Hulbert, a local iron and coal merchant, had the contract to dismantle the wreck.

[4] On 22 December 1894, the Norwegian ship, Abana was sailing from Liverpool to Florida but was caught up in a storm and mistook the then recently built Blackpool Tower for a lighthouse.

[9] On the same day as Abana hit the pier, a fishing boat from Fleetwood, Petrel, was also driven ashore by the same storm close to Uncle Tom's Cabin at North Shore.

Foudroyant came to Blackpool from Southport on 4 June and anchored two miles out to sea between Central and North piers.

[4][12] On 31 January 2008, Riverdance a roll-on/roll-off ferry in service on the Irish Sea, was travelling from Warrenpoint in Northern Ireland to Heysham when it ran into trouble at about 19:30.

[16] The ship suffered further structural damage during storms on 12 March, and it was announced on 10 April that all attempts to refloat her had been abandoned and that she was to be scrapped on site.

[17] On 27 March 2008 the motor cruiser Coco Leoni ran aground opposite Lytham windmill.