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Total loss with all hands

Crew of 17 lost & ship a total loss

St Levan Church. Situated in a secluded dell about four miles from Land's End. The graves of the crew of the Khyber (1905) is directly under the tower, in the shadowed corner. The photo shows a woman walking on the path in front of the…

The Khyber was a Liverpool ship which wrecked with a loss of 23 lives close to Porthole Cove, south of Lands End on March 15, 1905, carrying grain from Australia to Falmouth.
Picture are John Willis, Harris and Johnson. The rest of the crew buried…

Captain John Willis pictured after he had recovered from the ordeal of the wreck of the Liverpool ship Khyber. The ship wrecked with a loss of 23 lives close to Porthloe Cove near Tol Pedn Coastguard station on March 15, 1905, carrying grain from…

In memory of
Captain Henry Rotary, and the crew of the Liverpool ship Cyber wrecked at Porthloe Cove during the great storm of 15th March 1905. Of the 26 men all told 23 were lost some of whose remains were washed ashore and here interred. Mates WH…

Khyber wrecked 15 March 1905 at Porthloe Cove At Levan. Grave on W Side of porch. STAT 6.002 duplicate of this photo

Opened in 1982

The Khyber was a Liverpool ship which wrecked with a loss of 23 lives close to Porthole Cove, south of Lands End on March 15, 1905, carrying grain from Australia to Falmouth.
Picture are John Willis, Harris and Johnson. The rest of the crew buried…

Gymnasium on board the Queen Elizabeth 2.

The Windsor Castle, Union Castle Mail Steamship Co. (Southampton - Cape Town). This is a general view of the first class dining salon. 'Castle' ships dominated the South African routes for many years.

RMS Majestic, White Star Line. At the time White Star merged with Cunard in 1934, the Majestic was the largest ship afloat. In 1947, the White Star name was eliminated from the title. This is a general view of the Majestic's reception area with stair…

Barnstaple Ketch 'Result' last in a long line of Trading Ships to work the small Cornish Ports. Replaced in 1920/30

Built by Harveys for £2000 in 1886/7 104ft long. Transported Tin/ Copper/Coal to S Wales. Wrecked off Ilfracombe 3 Oct 1895

The Torrey Canyon, pictured on the Seven Stones reef between Scilly and Land's End before she broke up during March of 1967.

A typical continental freighter loading china clay from the gravity chute, an almost daily scene (at what is now) one of Cornwall's busiest small ports.

1,000 CREW, 13 DECKS

RMS Mauretania (Cunard), built by Swan Hunter Ltd., in Newcastle-on-Tyne, weighting 31,950 tons. The Mauretania served on the North Atlantic run from 1907 to 1935 and is probably the most famous and best-remembered of all the Atlantic…