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Grid reference, SW 5498 3502

For further information See Historic Environment Record, https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MCO6461&resourceID=1020

Numbers: J.T 570; LT1049

Fowey and St. Ives boats unloading catch

Note the nets drying on the harbour wall.

Rowing boats bringing fish from luggers to offload onto beach

A photograph copying two photographs. One appears to be fishing boats in Newlyn, and the other a group of four men and two women outside the Dolphin Tavern in Penzance. The women are carrying baskets, possibly for the selling of fish.

Identifiable boats: PH 340, PZ 216, PZ 491

These became Minesweepers druing both World Wars trawling for mines and sweeping the English Channel clear for larger ships.