After wrecking on the Western Rocks in severe conditions, some of the crew managed to clamber to the rocks. When parts of the wreck reached the inhabited Islands, locals realised what had happened.

|Job: |Cargo vessel |
|Date of incident: |18 January 1666 |
|Shipping route: |from East Indies |
|Passengers & cargo: |Pepper |
|Ran aground: |Western Rocks |

RoseVear (link below) has an extract from the report of the incident: “Upon sight thereof [the wreckage], the worthy Major Edward Roscaricke, then chief in Scilly, hastened boats to us who came and took us in and landed us at St Mary’s.”