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Registration BM 374. Broke loose from her anchor in Newlyn harbour and drifted towards Penzance coming ashore by the Bolitho Gardens-- the crew stayed asleep during the whole episode

Registration BM374. Broke loose from her anchor in Newlyn harbour and drifted towards Penzance coming ashore by the Bolitho Gardens-- the crew stayed asleep during the whole episode

Registration BM374. Broke loose from her anchor in Newlyn harbour and drifted towards Penzance, coming ashore by the Bolitho Gardens-- the crew stayed asleep during the whole episode

Unknown fireman standing by fire engine no. 1 (FCV 637)

Fireman Jack Tonkin standing by Fire Engine No. 1 (FCV 637). The fire engine is equipped with a 'Proto' Breathing Apparatus box. The fire station was in Clarence Street.

Horatio Nelson, the one-man police force on the Isles of Scilly. There is a print and a glass negative of this subject.

Showing Pier and various buildings around the harbour

note the man tied to the end of a rope trying to reach the boat in choppy seas rope now attached ship to shore

note the man tied to the end of a rope trying to reach the boat in choppy seas, now anchored to the shore

note the man tied to the end of a rope trying to reach the boat in choppy seas

note the man tied to the end of a rope trying to reach the boat in choppy seas

note group of men with rocket life-saving apparatus, breeches buoy .

note group of men with rocket life-saving apparatusapparatus breeches buoy and Penlee lifeboat standing by

Liner aground in thick fog, at Lowland Point, Coverack.
She was later refloated. The local hotel was named after the liner