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A wooden launch on Marazion Beach.

RNLI Men

The Conqueror was a modern freezer trawler built by Hall, Russel & Co Ltd in Aberdeen1965, 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 mackerel…

West end of beach near Cornish Leisure Centre

The Harry, a ketch-rigged Brixham trawler, wrecked near Porthcurno on 13 March 1910 during a southerly gale. The crew of four was picked up by the Sennen lifeboat from the small boat in which they had left the wreck. Brigham no. 62 was built by…

Warspite on tow to Breakers broke tow from Tug Buster

Noisiel wrecked August 1905 Master Captain Symons a Cornishman and 6of his crew survived 2 able seaman were lost

Cargo of marble was saved by hoist-gear to the clifftop