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Wrecked between Mousehole and Penzer Point

Wrecked between Mousehole and Penzer Point 1977.
Photograph shows scrap on Penzance Pier June 1979

Wrecked between Mousehole and Penzer Point 1977.
Photograph shows scrap on Penzance Pier June 1979.

The MFV Conqueror was a modern freezer trawler built in 1965 by Hall, Russel & Co Ltd of Aberdeen, for the Northern Trawlers Company. By 1977 she had undergone a major refit to extend her freezer capacity, and left her home port of Hull to go…

There was never an explanation for the circumstances but the ship was a total wreck

Inclusion of gold. Sovereigns were still in daily use

Constance Amelia Browne was the maternal Aunt of Caldwell.
She was born on 10th March 1833 at Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, the eldest daughter of Henry Albert Browne and Frances Margaret Nicholson. Constance married George Gibb at Usselby,…

Constantine Bay Landscape Evening

Constantine situated near Falmouth is named after Saint Constantine, a 6th-century Cornish saint possibly identified with a minor British king Constantine. The church dates to the 15th century

Engineers from the firm of Messrs Blight & White of Plymouth constructing the new helicopter landing platform at Bishop Rock Lighthouse (on the Isles of Scilly) in July, 1976.

DUPLICATE OF BUILD 8.032

Engineers from the firm of Messrs Blight & White of Plymouth constructing the new helicopter landing platform at Bishop Rock Lighthouse (on the Isles of Scilly) in July, 1976.

DUPLICATE OF BUILD 8.030

Richards Photograph

Richards Photograph