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About the Planaship Isles of Scilly Shipwrecks Map Print, 63 x 45cm

The Isles of Scilly lie off Land's End, at the western entrance to the English Channel, and their ledges have claimed ships for centuries; Visit Isles of Scilly counts more than 500 registered wrecks. The best known is the loss of Sir Cloudesley Shovell's fleet on the Western Rocks in 1707: his flagship HMS Association and three other ships went down, and around 1,400 men died. In 1875 the liner SS Schiller was wrecked on the Retarrier Ledges. This Planaship Isles of Scilly Shipwrecks print charts many of Scilly's wrecks on one map. Around St Mary's, Tresco, Bryher, St Martin's, St Agnes and the Western Rocks, well over a hundred tiny labels give a ship's name and year at its wreck site, so you can trace where they came to grief.

A 'Wreck Symbols' key explains the type of each vessel: square-rigged, fore-and-aft rigged, lug-rigged, steamer, submarine, fishing vessel or yacht. Around the map, pen drawings show ships aground on the rocks, a compass rose and the striped daymark tower on St Martin's, and a ship's figurehead from the Valhalla collection on Tresco.

Planaship Maritime Publications of Cornwall published wreck charts from at least the early 1980s, and its series covers coasts from Land's End and the Lizard to the Goodwin Sands. We also stock the Land's End shipwrecks print, which makes a pair.

It measures 63 x 45cm, a little bigger than A2, so it isn't a standard frame size: choose a frame or mount cut to fit. It arrives rolled in a tube, ready for framing, and works as nautical wall art in a hallway, a study or a holiday cottage.

More of an Isles of Scilly shipwreck chart than a shipwreck poster, it's a gift for anyone who has stayed on Scilly, dived its wrecks or sailed its waters. It also suits maritime history readers who'll stand in front of it picking out names.