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Account taken from the RNLI Website RNLI.org
Thomas Cocking, Coxswain of the St Ives lifeboat hurries to the lifeboat station and fires two maroons to summon the rest of the crew. The lifeboat, Caroline Parsons, launches in record time and rounds St…

Lamorna Birch and Arthur Tanner at Swanpool.

Lamorna Birch and HS Tuke at Boleigh

steamer sail ship Aida Lauro ( Italy) on voyage from Liverpool to Hull went aground near Cape Cornwall in dense fog. All seventeen crew saved by the St Ives lifeboat

Tuke returning from Work

Flamingo
Card from Tuke

HMS Warspite (03) was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship launched in 1913. She served in the First World War and in numerous operations in the Second World War, earning the most battle honours of any Royal Navy ship. She ran aground on her way to be…

HMS Warspite (03) was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship launched in 1913. She served in the First World War and in numerous operations in the Second World War, earning the most battle honours of any Royal Navy ship. She ran aground on her way to be…

Sel Portrait. Henry S Tuke A. R. A.

Wreck off Gurnards Head

HMS Diomedes anchored in Mounts Bay

Barbara in floral dress at beach, possibly Porthcurno.

Marjorie and Reggie on beach wearing bathing costumes.

Man in tweeds and woman wearing glasses.

Black bird on perch in field

Terraced houses at night.
Accompanying paperwork refers to Mr John J Beckerlegge
giving lecture to the Photographic Section of the Plymouth
Institution about night photography. He was Hon Sec in 1921.

Accompanying paperwork refers to Mr John J Beckerlegge
giving lecture about night photography to the Photographic Section of the Plymouth
Institution. He was Hon Sec in 1921.

View across Plymouth at night.
Accompanying paperwork refers to Mr John J Beckerlegge
giving lecture about night photography to the Photographic Section of the Plymouth
Institution. He was Hon Sec in 1921.