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WRECKS 32HG 077.tif
Top photo: A Submarine ashore at Carn Gloose, St Just.
Bottom photo: not clear but researcher indicates this is of people looking at the 'Hindenburg' Zeppelin above Pordenack Point at Land's End.

WRECKS 32HG 033.tif
Navy vessel on way to being scrapped
Taken from Penzance Promenade
Second vessel to left of Diomedes

WRECKS 32HG 031.tif
Etching of the wreck of the collier brig, "Diana", of Swansea.
8 of 9 crew saved, but several injured including the captain, who broke 3 ribs. One sailor cut in pieces due to heavy seas.
Reported in Illustrated London News - 17th February 1855

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