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Dreiven ashore in 90mph gale at Pendeen Watch. Note the men on board helping with the breeches bouy. All 52 crew members saved

She was being transported back to the River Fal via sea after refit.
Driven ashore by fierce gales.

Etching from the Illustrated London Evening News, the John Dory was carrying rum sugar and coconuts

Captain Dunstan was killed on a flight to the scillies we don't have a date for this

W.R.N.S. on card identified as A.T.S. by Mr Sculthorpe-Wright
researching Skewjack

W.R.N.S. on card, but identified as A.T.S. by Mr Sculthorpe-Wright researching RAF Skewjack

A.R.P. drill - decontamination squad hosing down the road outside the Rates Office in St. Johns Hall. Vehicle EAF 414 can also be seen.

A.R.P drill by gas decontamination squad. pictured outside the police station at St John's Hall

An A.R.P drill by the gas decontamination squad. Vehicle EAF 414 parked outside the Police Station in St John's Hall

Girl Guides on parade, possibly in Gulval (see hand written index)

Girl Guides practising knots. Thought to be Gulval from information in the hand written index.

A Girl Guide troop practising signalling with flags. This could possible be in Gulval (hand written index)

Photograph of an unidentified fireman, possibly based at the former fire station in Clarence Street, Penzance.

Seven members of the fire brigade at the former fire station in Clarence Street, Penzance

Firemen and engine at former fire station in Clarence Street, Penzance. Ben Perrin identified as 2nd from left. Fire engine registration nnumber is FCV 637 and in the background the front of a vehicle with the registration GXH 427 can be seen in the…

Four firemen and engine. The hand written index states that the fire station was in Clarence Street, Penzance. The logo on the engine, NFS, is the National Fire Service, created in 1941 during World War II by amalgamating the local authority fire…

Penlee Lifeboat out on practice

The Coxswain of the Sennen lifeboat standing on the slipway with the harbour behind. Coxswain named as Edwin Chapple but with a query after

Sennen lifeboat 'The Newbons' and its crew photographed on the slipway of lifeboat station