The cargo steamship SS Benmohr ran aground on 25th February 1931 at the coastal headland of Prawle Point. Prawle Point means lookout hill and is the southernmost point of the county of Devon and famed for snagging many a passing vessel. The SS Benmohr was en route from Port Chalmers Dunedin in New Zealand on 5th January to Leith in Scotland in Devon carrying a cargo of wool to Dunkirk, Hull and London and had arrived home on 15th February 1931.