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The family at Porthgwarra

Porthgwarra

Postcard of an etching of 'The Nile' . Wrecked off Godrevy Point partially responsible for a campaign to instal a lighthouse on Godrevy
Source: Wikipedia
The Nile, an iron-hulled screw steamer, was built at Dumbarton in 1850. She was first…

Lamorna on the quay

The 2,070-ton Busby was launched in February 1894 at Stockton as a steel screw schooner-rigged steamer for the general Indian trade of Ropner & Co of West Hartlepool. She had made only one Indian voyage when she sailed from Newport on the evening of…

The 2,070-ton Busby was launched in February 1894 at Stockton as a steel screw schooner-rigged steamer for the general Indian trade of Ropner & Co of West Hartlepool. She had made only one Indian voyage when she sailed from Newport on the evening of…

The largest sailing ship lost anywhere between Land's End and St Ives was the Liverpool ship Alexander Yeats, launched in 1876 by D. Lynch of Portland, New Brunswick, as a wooden full-rigger of 1,589 tons.

Towards the end of her career she was…

The largest sailing ship lost anywhere between Land's End and St Ives was the Liverpool ship Alexander Yeats, launched in 1876 by D. Lynch of Portland, New Brunswick, as a wooden full-rigger of 1,589 tons.

Towards the end of her career she was…

Features Bell Leader, Birch, Benj Leader and Henry Tippett
(of Boleigh Farm)

Clive Carter´s "Cornish Shipwrecks, The North Coast" states: This wreck´s tragic story began at 2.30 am on the 22nd January 1939 when St. Just coastguard sighted a large steamer smothered by breaking seas 2 miles north of Cape Cornwall. At the time…

HMS Warspite was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s. Completed during the First World War in 1915, she was assigned to the Grand Fleet and participated in the Battle of Jutland. Other than…

At the home of her grandparents Charles and Mary Dennis of The Bungalow,
Perran Crossroads.

Young girl with bow and slide in hair, holding bunch of flowers.
She's sitting on a plaid blanket outside, house in background.
Possibly related to slightly older girl in MG.309, who holds same bunch of flowers.

Photo taken same time as MG.310 and MG.309
Girls had bow and sits on plaid blanket outside

Young girl with bow and slide in hair, holding bunch of flowers.
She's sitting on a plaid blanket outside, house in background.
Possibly related to slightly older girl in MG.309, who holds same bunch of flowers.

Young Girl with bow and slide in hair.
Image taken outside in a countryside setting.
Possibly related to slightly younger girl in MG.310, who holds same bunch of flowers.

Subject has unknown insignia and initials RFC on left breast pocket on jacket. Possibly a football club?

Subject has two downward pointing chevrons, which may indicate rank of corporal or time served. Also at the number 24 on left sleeve