Accreditation Unaccredited
Address_line_1 Mount Pleasant Road
Admin_hierarchy /England/South West (English Region)/Cornwall (English UA)
Alternative_museum_name_source New
Deprivation_index 5
Deprivation_index_crime 5
Deprivation_index_education 8
Deprivation_index_employment 7
Deprivation_index_health 6
Deprivation_index_housing 1
Deprivation_index_income 6
Deprivation_index_services 6
Founder John Bugh
Founder_source Interview with Richard Larn
Geodemographic_group Remoter Coastal Living
Geodemographic_group_code 3br
Geodemographic_group_name_long 3br-Remoter Coastal Living
Geodemographic_subgroup Ageing Coastal Living
Geodemographic_subgroup_code 3b1r
Geodemographic_supergroup Countryside Living
Geodemographic_supergroup_code 3r
Geodemographic_supergroup_name_long 3r-Countryside Living
Governance Independent-Private
Governance_source interview with Richard Larn
Latitude 50.083002
Longitude -5.318218
Name_of_museum The Shipwreck Centre
Notes Opening date remains uncertain. Most of the collection was probably sold to Tom Henderson [via Richard Larn].
Postcode TR13 9JS
Primary_provenance_of_data New
Region_country South West
Size unknown
Subject_Matter Sea_and_seafaring-Boats_and_ships
Town_or_City Porthleven
Year_closed 1982:1982
Year_closed_source Interview with Richard Larn and museum documented in Leach book published 2000.
Year_museum_first_documented 2000
Year_museum_first_documented_source Nicholas Leach, Cornwall's Lifeboat Heritage, 2006
Year_opened 1960:1981
Year_opened_source Interview with Richard Larn
project_id mm.New.94