GODREVY, an island on the N side of St. Ives bay, in Cornwall. A vessel was wrecked on it, with a loss of about 60 lives, in 1649; and the Nile iron screw-steamer, of 700 tons, foundered, with a loss of all on board, by striking on a reef connected with the island, in Dec. 1854. That reef is called the Stones, and extends fully a mile from the island seaward. A light-house, to warn mariners of the reef, was erected on the island in 1859; and shows a flashing revolving light, at a height of 120 feet above high-water level.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))