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2 unusual facts about Inchcape


Bell Rock

Inchcape or the Bell Rock, a reef off the east coast of Angus, Scotland with a lighthouse

Inchcape

The bell was removed by a Dutch pirate who then perished a year later on the rocks, a story that is immortalised in "The Inchcape Rock" (1820), a poem by Robert Southey.


Charles Vyner Brooke

Dayang Leonora Margaret, Countess of Inchcape, wife of firstly the Earl of Inchcape (one son, Lord Tanlaw, and one daughter) and, secondly of US Colonel Francis Parker Tompkins (one son).

The Inchcape Rock

In his 1947 English translation of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, J. M. Cohen refers to "The Inchcape Rock" as having a style he wishes to avoid in his rendering of the ballads by Cervantes.

The Sea Ghost

In 1925 New Orleans, lawyer Henry Sykes (Clarence Wilson) hires now civilian Captain Winters for a salvage job on behalf of Evelyn Inchcape (Laura La Plante).


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