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Rocket Apparatus and Breeches Buoy in use

Lady & Blossom with Dick & Albert Prior
Cutting Corn Treveglos

Ladies with Parasols walking along Penzance Promenade.

Ladies taking the air on Penzance Promenade

in the 'zawn'

in the 'zawn'

The crew of trawler La Varenne ( France) of Cherbourg were attempting to abandon ship after she went into a small cove at Land's End. Eight men were picked up by the Sennen Cove lifeboat

All crew saved by lifeboat

All crew saved by lifeboat

All crew saved by lifeboat

All crew saved by lifeboat

Postcard "Cruel Seas Off Land's End"

"The submarine L1, a veteran of the First World War, launched by Vickers of Barrow in 1917, drifted ashore at Penanwell Cove after breaking tow while bound from Chatham to Newport for scrapping." from Cornish Shipwrecks, North Coast by Clive Carter.

"The submarine L1, a veteran of the First World War, launched by Vickers of Barrow in 1917, drifted ashore at Penanwell Cove after breaking tow while bound from Chatham to Newport for scrapping." from Cornish Shipwrecks, North Coast by Clive Carter.