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Wallasey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The area also had a reputation for smuggling and "wrecking", the act
of luring ships onto rocks or sandbanks with false lights in order to raid
their cargo. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallasey - 46k - Cached - Similar pages

Key West History | History of Key West - Yahoo! Travel Guide UK
In the old days, folks deliberately lured ships onto the rocks and
made a ... doing the wrecking themselves by deliberately luring ships onto
the rocks. ...
uk.holidaysguide.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-142353-key_west_history-i -
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South West Coast Path on AboutBritain.com
... luring ships onto the rocks from where they could plunder the
wrecks. ... and jagged Iron Coast, there is a huge range of rock formation
to be seen. ...
http://www.aboutbritain.com/articles...coast-path.asp - 26k -
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Smuggling
Another less appealing form of coastal lawbreaking was wrecking - the
luring of ships onto rocks by lighting false signals so the wreck could be
plundered. ...
www.bjcurtis.force9.co.uk/html/smuggling.html - 21k - Cached - Similar
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Wild Bill's Blog
Another couple of hundred years before that, I would have probably
been a "Wrecker" - luring ships onto the rocks to kill the crew and steal
the cargo. ...
http://www.billbuchan.com/web.nsf/ar...nth&key=2006-4 -
86k - 27 Jan 2007 - Cached - Similar pages

In Flight: Two Coastlines
Instead of being luring ships onto the rocks, luring walkers over the
cliff? For what were the bonfires but false markers? ...
wingeddove.blogspot.com/2006/08/two-coastlines.html - 46k - Cached -
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Avilla Rentals
Built in 1820 by Samuel Hall Lord, who made his fortune by luring
ships onto the nearby rocks! The castle features magnificent mahogany
columns in the main ...
www.avillarentals.com/region/Caribbean/Barbados - 29k - Cached -
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Faith In Gold
Instead, monetary regimes come and go, like the lanterns of Cornish
pirates, luring ships onto the rocks so they can be looted. ...
http://www.gold-eagle.com/gold_diges...ner061906.html - 15k - Cached -
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Branscombe Looters Show the Way! | libcom.org
There are legends (never proven) of coastal villagers luring ships
onto the rocks on stormy nights by putting lanterns on the cliffs so the
ships would ...
libcom.org/forums/news/branscombe-looters-show-the-way - 55k - 27 Jan
2007 - Cached - Similar pages

Faith in Faith
Instead, monetary regimes come and go, like the lanterns of Cornish
pirates, luring ships onto the rocks to be looted. The financial history of
Argentina is ...
http://www.dailyreckoning.com/Issues...RUS061606.html - 53k - Cached -
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