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Sennen lifeboat 'The Newbons' and its crew on the slipway

Lifeboat 'The Newbons' heading towards the Lifeboat Station

Sennen lifeboat 'The Newbons" beside the slip at the lifeboat station

A photograph taken from inside the lifeboat house of the launch of the Sennen lifeboat.

Sennen Lifeboat in Mount's Bay, with the Mount in the distance

Sennen lifeboat 'The Brothers'

Men and Women on an exercise Cornwall Division at control point

went aground August 14th 1913
All crew were saved by th Sennen Cove lifeboat but the ship was a total loss.

After leaving Falmouth the ship struck the Runnelstone sustaining serious damage. She was towed to Porthcurno by tug Elliot and Jeffery but soon broke up November 4th 1895

Went aground in thick fog, the ship was a total wreck but all her crew were saved.
September 26th 1935

January 18th 1935 washed on rocks in heavy seas

Alba steamer from Panama ran aground in bad weather January 31st 1935 ,six members of the crew were lost.
Note the wreckage of the lifeboat Caroline Parsons which was also wrecked during an abortive rescue attempt.

August 1st 1951

washed up in unidentified cove August 1st 1951

Front row, 5th from left, is 'Dike' Jones who post-war taught mathematics at the Boy's Grammar School until his retirement c. 1956.

Info on back of card corrects written, sent to Cornishman Mr Harry Spensley's