Qualla: Seven Stones Reef https://qualla.com/seven-stones-reef en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:10 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Seven Stones Reef https://qualla.com/seven-stones-reef Seven Stones Reef: Introduction https://qualla.com/seven-stones-reef/ Two miles long and a mile wide, the Seven Stones reef rises out of forty fathoms of deep water like a set of broken teeth in the Atlantic. The sea always breaks over it, and on a clear day the whitewater is visible from twelve miles away. Even so, ships keep finding it. Seventy-one wrecks are named in the records; the actual count is estimated at more than two hundred. One of them, the supertanker Torrey Canyon in 1967, became the world's first modern oil-spill catastrophe and the costliest shipping disaster of its time.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/s/seven-stones-reef-wp/gbgs-seven-stones-reef-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Seven Stones Reef: Geology of a Trap https://qualla.com/seven-stones-reef/ The Seven Stones are not random. They are the tips of an old granite ridge - small-grained intrusive rock, part of the larger Cornubian batholith that surfaces across Cornwall and Scilly. The batholith pushed up into the crust at the tail end of the Variscan orogeny in the Early ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/s/seven-stones-reef-wp/gbgs-seven-stones-reef-geology-of-a-trap.mp3 0:06 2 full Seven Stones Reef: The Old Wrecks https://qualla.com/seven-stones-reef/ The first recorded wreck on the Seven Stones was in March 1656, before the reef had even been put on the charts. Two English men o' war, the Primrose and the Mayflower, were searching for Spanish frigates that had been raiding traffic off Cornwall. The Primrose, a sixth-rate of 2...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/s/seven-stones-reef-wp/gbgs-seven-stones-reef-the-old-wrecks.mp3 0:06 3 full Seven Stones Reef: The Day the Sea Turned Black https://qualla.com/seven-stones-reef/ On the morning of 18 March 1967, the Liberian-registered supertanker Torrey Canyon, 974 feet long and carrying 119,000 tons of Kuwaiti crude, took a shortcut to make a tidal window at Milford Haven. Her captain misjudged the position, the autopilot was accidentally left engaged s...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/s/seven-stones-reef-wp/gbgs-seven-stones-reef-the-day-the-sea-turned-black.mp3 0:06 4 full Seven Stones Reef: A Reef Still Watching https://qualla.com/seven-stones-reef/ The Sevenstones Lightship remained on station after the disaster - though World War II had already forced a lighted buoy onto the reef for years, after Luftwaffe pilots took to bombing and strafing the manned vessel. Today the lightship is automated and unmanned, doubling as a we...

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