Tours

1919 – The Tours, a French steamer bound in ballast from St Nazaire to Swansea, stranded in Hunts Bay in thick fog.   She was there on the rocks for several months and became a local attraction.   After a long and complicated salvage operation she was eventually refloated, “to the cheers of several hundred spectators”.   [Gower Coast Shipwrecks, Robert Carl Smith.] (Ref: 079)