Great Storm damage Penzance promenade
subject: Acts
description: Storm damage central Penzance promenade
source: Margaret Orchard
publisher: Morrab Library
date: 1880-10-07
rights: Morrab Library
format: 35mm Slide
type: Photograph
coverage: Penzance

Storm damage Penzance promenade
subject: Acts
description: Storm damage Penzance promenade looking West
source: Margaret Orchard
publisher: Morrab Library
date: 1818
rights: Morrab Library
format: 35mm Slide
type: Photograph
coverage: Penzance

The railway viaduct, Chyandour, storm damage. Etching
subject: Acts
description: Wooden railway viaduct, storm damage
source: Margaret Orchard
publisher: Morrab Library
date: 1852
rights: Morrab Library
format: 35mm Slide
type: Engraving
coverage: Penzance

Penzance Promenade, Great Storm damage. Gibson
subject: Acts
description: Storm damage to Penzance promenade, view from Eastern end
source: Margaret Orchard
publisher: Gibson
date: 1880-10-07
rights: Morrab Library
format: 35mm Slide
type: Photograph
coverage: Penzance

Penzance Promenade, Great Storm damage
subject: Acts
description: Storm damage Penzance promenade looking East
source: Margaret Orchard
publisher: Morrab Library
date: 1880-10-07
rights: Morrab Library
format: 35mm Slide
type: Photograph
coverage: Penzance

Storm damage, Penzance Promenade
subject: Acts
description: Great Storm damage to Penzance promenade looking East
source: Margaret Orchard
publisher: Morrab Library
date: c.1890
rights: Morrab Library
format: 35mm Slide
type: Photograph
coverage: Penzance

Stoke Poges to Land's End group
subject: People
description: Possibly charity walkers
source: Cyril Orchard (part 2)
publisher: Morrab Library
date: c. 1960
rights: Morrab Library
format: 35mm Slide
type: Photograph
coverage: Land's End

Road Traffic Accident
subject: Motoring
description: Ambulance and Fire Service at the scene with casualty, location unknown
source: Cyril Orchard (part 2)
publisher: Morrab Library
date: c. 1960
rights: Morrab Library
format: 35mm Slide
type: Photograph
coverage: Penwith

Penlee Lifeboat 52-24, Mabel Alice
subject: Shipping
description: Previous vessel to the current Lifeboat. This boat came after the loss of the Soloman Brown
source: Cyril Orchard (part 2)
publisher: Morrab Library
date: c. 1990
rights: Morrab Library
format: 35mm Slide
type: Photograph
coverage: Newlyn

Fishing Vessel SS45 Castle Wraith ashore at St. Ives
subject: Shipping
description: Overview
source: Cyril Orchard (part 2)
publisher: Morrab Library
date: c. 1960
rights: Morrab Library
format: 35mm Slide
type: Photograph
coverage: St. Ives

Cromdale, wrecked on Bass Point, Lizard, May 23rd 1913
subject: Shipping
description: The Cromdale came ashore at at Bass Point, after a one hundred and twenty-dour day journey from Taltal, Chile with a cargo of Nitrates. She was already a week overdue at Falmouth when, nearing the Lizard, she ran into dense fog on the evening of May 23rd 1913. Her master, Captain Arthur, had earlier been able to check his position with a passing steamer and was not unduly worried until several hours had passed without sight and sound of the Lizard and St. Anthony Lighthouses. Then, at 21:30 pm it was the helmsman and not the look-out who first saw a blurred flash in the murk dead ahead. Seconds later, breakers were seen grounded on the rocks below Bass Point. Badly holed, she settled rapidly by the stern and in less than ten minutes had to be abandoned. The first distress rocket, fired from a boat by the first mate, explored almost in front of the coastguard's lookout and the Lizard and Cadgwith lifeboats were soon afloat and helping in the rescue. Next morning, when the fog lifted, the Cromdael was an awesome spectacle, poop deck under water and bows on the rocks below the high cliffs, every sail set but hanging limply from the yards in the still air. At low water, her crew boarded her and managed to recover some personal belongings and the ship's instruments. The wreck was later put up for auction but, with a ruined cargo, she was of little value apart from her sailing gear and Harris Brothers of Falmouth bought her £41, later reselling her to a third party. A week after she came ashore, the Cromdale broke up in a heavy SSW gale and very little salvage work was ever carried out on the remains. Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.131.
source: Cyril 0rchard (part 2)
publisher: Morrab Library
date: 1913-05-23
rights: Morrab Library
format: 35mm Slide
type: Photograph
coverage: Lizard

The Torrey Canyon aground on the Pollard Rock, Seven Stones Reef off Land's End
subject: Shipping
description: At the time this Liberian registered Oil Tanker was the largest shipwreck known and caused an environmental disaster to the Cornish coastline with pollution from it's cargo of crude oil, the effects of which are still felt today
source: Cyril Orchard (part 2)
publisher: Morrab Library
date: 1967-03-18
rights: Morrab Library
format: 35mm Slide
type: Photograph
coverage: Land's End

The upturned wreck of the MV Union Star near Tater Dhu
subject: Shipping
description: The vessel on it's maiden voyage and the Penlee lifeboat which made a gallant attempt at rescue were lost with all hands on 1982-12-19 after a violent storm
source: Cyril Orchard (part 2)
publisher: Morrab Library
date: 1981-12-19
rights: Morrab Library
format: 35mm Slide
type: Photograph
coverage: Tater Dhu

Recovering the Sikorsky helicopter from the sea after the tragedy near the Isles of Scilly
subject: Shipping
description: The Sikorsky passenger helicopter crashed into the sea off the isles of Scilly on a routine flight, the picture shows the helicopter on the deck of the recovery vessel
source: Cyril Orchard (part 2)
publisher: Morrab Library
date: 1983-07
rights: Morrab Library
format: 35mm Slide
type: Photograph
coverage: Isle of Scilly

Wreck of a fishing vessel, possibly storm damaged, location unknown
subject: Shipping
description: Shipwreck
source: Cyril Orchard (part 2)
publisher: Morrab Library
date: c. 1960
rights: Morrab Library
format: 35mm Slide
type: Photograph
coverage: Penwith

HMS Warspite aground in Prussia Cove
subject: Shipping
description: HMS Warspite a WW1 battleship ran aground in Prussia Cove in 1947 on her way to the breakers and was later salvaged at Marazion
source: Cyril Orchard (part 2)
publisher: Morrab Library
date: 1947
rights: Morrab Library
format: 35mm Slide
type: Photograph
coverage: Prussia Cove

The Newlyn fishing vessel Rosebud arriving at Westminster, October 1937
subject: Shipping
description: The Rosebud was delivering a petition about the Newlyn house clearances to Westminster. the vessel was later renamed Cynthia-Yvonne
source: Cyril Orchard (part 2)
publisher: Morrab Library
date: 1937-10
rights: Morrab Library
format: 35mm Slide
type: Photograph
coverage: Newlyn

The wreck of the MV Alacrity at Portheras Cove 1963
subject: Shipping
description: The MV Alacrity was owned by the Everard Company, she was savaged in situ after becoming a total right off
source: Cyril Orchard (part 2)
publisher: Morrab Library
date: 1963
rights: Morrab Library
format: 35mm Slide
type: Photograph
coverage: Portheras Cove

The wreck of the Union Star, near Tater Dhu
subject: Shipping
description: The upturned hull of the Union Star, on the rocks near Tater Dhu, wrecked 19-12-1981 with a loss of all hands, plus the crew of the Penlee lifeboat who perished during the gallant rescue attempt
source: Cyril Orchard (part 2)
publisher: Morrab Library
date: 1981-12-19
rights: Morrab Library
format: 35mm Slide
type: Photograph
coverage: Tater Dhu

The wreck of the SS Taycraig, wrecked off Gear Rocks, Penzance, January 27th 1936
subject: Shipwreck
description: The Taycraig was a Cornish owned steamer. She was originally registered in London. On January 27th 1936, she dragged her anchors in a south-west gale and wrapped herself around the tall post-and-cage beacon which marks the Gear Rocks, just off Penzance Promenade. Her crew was rescued by the lifeboat, but the Taycraig, which was in ballast for Newlyn to load road-stone, sank until her funnel and masts stood out of the water and defied all efforts to salvage her. Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p. 183-184.
description: Refer Collins Orage binder Wreck Abstract. Also Collins.195A to 195D Also Wrecks 32PG 145 to 150 and Wrecks 4.044
source: Cyril Orchard (part 2)
publisher: Morrab Library
date: 1936-01-27
rights: Morrab Library
format: 35mm Slide
type: Photograph
coverage: Penzance