Torrey Canyon grounded on rocks off Land's End. 1968
subject: Anno
description: grounded off the Seven Stones reef. Smoke can be seen from the explosives used to release the oil on board and burn it. Longships Lighthouse in foreground
source: Richards
date: 1967
identifier: WRECKS 32HF 103
coverage: Land's End

Simone Marcelle ,Gurnards Head ,Belgian trawler. 1948
subject: Anno
description: All members of the crew were saved except for 15 year old cabin boy
source: Richards
date: 1948
identifier: WRECKS 32HF 102
coverage: St Ives

St. Guenole, wrecked at Gribba Point, November 1st 1948
subject: Shipwreck
description: Eleven years passed, and the tragedy of the Vierge Marie was repeated. Again, it was the usual 'wreck weather' for the western cliffs: hazy with heavy ground seas, the aftermath of a hard south-west gale. Shortly after one o'clock in the morning of November 1st 19148, the coastguard on watch at Treen saw the lights of a motor vessel emerge from a fierce squall of rain and head straight for the surf beating upon Pedn-e-Vounder sans. In response to the rapid blink of Aldis Lamp, she turned eastward and vanished round Logan Rock headland. Though she made no signal, either to acknowledge the warning or to ask for help, he called out Treen LSA Company and another coastguard and went down into Penberth Cove. There was no sign of the mysterious ship, but the wind was thick with the stench of fuel oil. Suddenly her saw a young man washing about in the surf and despite almost being swept away, dragged him out and carried him to a nearby cottage. Search parties began to scour the cliffs. A lifejacket marked 'ST GUENOLE-ROUEN' was pickier up on the rocks near the cove, and at dawn a vessel of about 500 tons was found bottom up beneath Gribba point, less then half a mile away. The St Guenole, a steel tar tanker owned by Cie Mar de Transport de Goudron of Rouen, bound in ballast from Nantes to Irvine on Clydside with a crew of twelve, was a total wreck. Twenty-three-year old Andre Fourcin, the sailor saved by the coastguard, was the sole survivor. The St Guenole rusted away beneath the Penberth Cliffs and the memory of the wreck slowly faded. Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.211-212.
source: Richards
date: 1948
identifier: WRECKS 32HF 101
coverage: Lands End

St. Guenole, wrecked at Gribba Point, November 1st 1948
subject: Shipwreck
description: Eleven years passed, and the tragedy of the Vierge Marie was repeated. Again, it was the usual 'wreck weather' for the western cliffs: hazy with heavy ground seas, the aftermath of a hard south-west gale. Shortly after one o'clock in the morning of November 1st 19148, the coastguard on watch at Treen saw the lights of a motor vessel emerge from a fierce squall of rain and head straight for the surf beating upon Pedn-e-Vounder sans. In response to the rapid blink of Aldis Lamp, she turned eastward and vanished round Logan Rock headland. Though she made no signal, either to acknowledge the warning or to ask for help, he called out Treen LSA Company and another coastguard and went down into Penberth Cove. There was no sign of the mysterious ship, but the wind was thick with the stench of fuel oil. Suddenly her saw a young man washing about in the surf and despite almost being swept away, dragged him out and carried him to a nearby cottage. Search parties began to scour the cliffs. A lifejacket marked 'ST GUENOLE-ROUEN' was pickier up on the rocks near the cove, and at dawn a vessel of about 500 tons was found bottom up beneath Gribba point, less then half a mile away. The St Guenole, a steel tar tanker owned by Cie Mar de Transport de Goudron of Rouen, bound in ballast from Nantes to Irvine on Clydside with a crew of twelve, was a total wreck. Twenty-three-year old Andre Fourcin, the sailor saved by the coastguard, was the sole survivor. The St Guenole rusted away beneath the Penberth Cliffs and the memory of the wreck slowly faded. Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.211-212.
source: Richards
date: 1948
identifier: WRECKS 32HF 100
coverage: Lands End

St. Guenole, wrecked at Gribba Point, November 1st 1948
subject: Shipwreck
description: Eleven years passed, and the tragedy of the Vierge Marie was repeated. Again, it was the usual 'wreck weather' for the western cliffs: hazy with heavy ground seas, the aftermath of a hard south-west gale. Shortly after one o'clock in the morning of November 1st 19148, the coastguard on watch at Treen saw the lights of a motor vessel emerge from a fierce squall of rain and head straight for the surf beating upon Pedn-e-Vounder sans. In response to the rapid blink of Aldis Lamp, she turned eastward and vanished round Logan Rock headland. Though she made no signal, either to acknowledge the warning or to ask for help, he called out Treen LSA Company and another coastguard and went down into Penberth Cove. There was no sign of the mysterious ship, but the wind was thick with the stench of fuel oil. Suddenly her saw a young man washing about in the surf and despite almost being swept away, dragged him out and carried him to a nearby cottage. Search parties began to scour the cliffs. A lifejacket marked 'ST GUENOLE-ROUEN' was pickier up on the rocks near the cove, and at dawn a vessel of about 500 tons was found bottom up beneath Gribba point, less then half a mile away. The St Guenole, a steel tar tanker owned by Cie Mar de Transport de Goudron of Rouen, bound in ballast from Nantes to Irvine on Clydside with a crew of twelve, was a total wreck. Twenty-three-year old Andre Fourcin, the sailor saved by the coastguard, was the sole survivor. The St Guenole rusted away beneath the Penberth Cliffs and the memory of the wreck slowly faded. Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.211-212.
source: Richards
date: 1948
identifier: WRECKS 32HF 099
coverage: Lands End

St. Guenole, wrecked at Gribba Point, November 1st 1948
subject: Shipwreck
description: Eleven years passed, and the tragedy of the Vierge Marie was repeated. Again, it was the usual 'wreck weather' for the western cliffs: hazy with heavy ground seas, the aftermath of a hard south-west gale. Shortly after one o'clock in the morning of November 1st 19148, the coastguard on watch at Treen saw the lights of a motor vessel emerge from a fierce squall of rain and head straight for the surf beating upon Pedn-e-Vounder sans. In response to the rapid blink of Aldis Lamp, she turned eastward and vanished round Logan Rock headland. Though she made no signal, either to acknowledge the warning or to ask for help, he called out Treen LSA Company and another coastguard and went down into Penberth Cove. There was no sign of the mysterious ship, but the wind was thick with the stench of fuel oil. Suddenly her saw a young man washing about in the surf and despite almost being swept away, dragged him out and carried him to a nearby cottage. Search parties began to scour the cliffs. A lifejacket marked 'ST GUENOLE-ROUEN' was pickier up on the rocks near the cove, and at dawn a vessel of about 500 tons was found bottom up beneath Gribba point, less then half a mile away. The St Guenole, a steel tar tanker owned by Cie Mar de Transport de Goudron of Rouen, bound in ballast from Nantes to Irvine on Clydside with a crew of twelve, was a total wreck. Twenty-three-year old Andre Fourcin, the sailor saved by the coastguard, was the sole survivor. The St Guenole rusted away beneath the Penberth Cliffs and the memory of the wreck slowly faded. Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.211-212.
source: Richards
date: 1948
identifier: WRECKS 32HF 098
coverage: Lands End

A parade by Madron & Heamoor Boys Bridgade
subject: MPlayC
source: Richards
date: 1925
format: Print
identifier: SERV 24PF 098
coverage: Madron

Girl Guides and Boy Scouts in fancy dress
subject: PlayWC
source: Richards
date: 1925
format: Print
identifier: SERV 24PF 097
coverage: Penzance

Land's End Boy Scouts Shield Flag Bugle
subject: Uniforms Scout Leader
source: Richards
date: 1925
format: Print
identifier: SERV 24PF 096
coverage: Unknown

Penlee Motor lifeboat practice run in Mounts Bay
subject: Services
subject: Boats Sea
subject: Mwork
source: Richards
date: 1937
format: Print
identifier: SERV 24PF 095
coverage: Mounts Bay

Lifeboat with crew holding oars upwards
subject: Services
subject: Harbour Pier
subject: Anno Mwork
description: Note cork life jackets Coxswain Vingoe
source: Richards
date: 1910
identifier: SERV 24PF 094
coverage: Newlyn

St. Guenole, wrecked at Gribba Point, November 1st 1948
subject: Shipwreck
description: Eleven years passed, and the tragedy of the Vierge Marie was repeated. Again, it was the usual 'wreck weather' for the western cliffs: hazy with heavy ground seas, the aftermath of a hard south-west gale. Shortly after one o'clock in the morning of November 1st 19148, the coastguard on watch at Treen saw the lights of a motor vessel emerge from a fierce squall of rain and head straight for the surf beating upon Pedn-e-Vounder sans. In response to the rapid blink of Aldis Lamp, she turned eastward and vanished round Logan Rock headland. Though she made no signal, either to acknowledge the warning or to ask for help, he called out Treen LSA Company and another coastguard and went down into Penberth Cove. There was no sign of the mysterious ship, but the wind was thick with the stench of fuel oil. Suddenly her saw a young man washing about in the surf and despite almost being swept away, dragged him out and carried him to a nearby cottage. Search parties began to scour the cliffs. A lifejacket marked 'ST GUENOLE-ROUEN' was pickier up on the rocks near the cove, and at dawn a vessel of about 500 tons was found bottom up beneath Gribba point, less then half a mile away. The St Guenole, a steel tar tanker owned by Cie Mar de Transport de Goudron of Rouen, bound in ballast from Nantes to Irvine on Clydside with a crew of twelve, was a total wreck. Twenty-three-year old Andre Fourcin, the sailor saved by the coastguard, was the sole survivor. The St Guenole rusted away beneath the Penberth Cliffs and the memory of the wreck slowly faded. Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.211-212.
source: Richards
date: 1948
identifier: WRECKS 32HF 097
coverage: Lands End

Lowestoft Drifter aground off Eastern Green with Penlee Lifeboat. 1930
subject: WRECKS
description: Penlee Lifeboat helping a Loewstft Drifter aground off Eastern Green ,Penzance.
creator: Richards
source: Richards
publisher: Morrab Library
date: 1930
rights: Morrab Library
format: Print
identifier: WRECKS 32HF 096
coverage: Penzance, Cornwall.

Steamer The Nile off Godrevy Point. 1854
subject: Anno
description: She was driven off course by strong Gales and struck the Deeper Stones off Godrevy point all 40passengers and crew were lost
source: Richards
date: 1854
format: Flimsy Negative - Half
identifier: WRECKS 32HF 095
coverage: Hayle

Whitby Brig 'New Commercial' rescue off Brissons. 1885
subject: Anno
description: From the Illustrated London News She struck Brissons Cape Cornwall near Land's End
source: Richards
date: 1885
identifier: WRECKS 32HF 094
coverage: Land's End

Naval ship H.M.S Montague adrift nr Lundy Island. 1906
subject: Anno
description: She hit Shutter Rock nr Lundy Island in thick fog. The ship was later broken up for scrap.
source: Richards
date: 1906
format: Flimsy Negative - Half
identifier: WRECKS 32HF 093
coverage: Lundy Island Bristol Channel

Spanish Coaster Mina Cantiquin 1951
subject: Anno
description: Struck rocks at Black Head and drifted to Lowland Point, All 17 of the crew were saved by the Coverack Lifeboat but the ship was total loss.
source: Richards
date: 1951
identifier: WRECKS 32HF 092
coverage: Lands End

Spanish coaster Mina Cantiquin off Lowland Point 1951
subject: Anno
description: Struck rocks at Black Head and then drifted to Lowland Point. All 17 of the crew were saved by the Coverack Lifeboat but the ship was a total loss.
source: Richards
date: 1951
identifier: WRECKS 32HF 091
coverage: Lizard

Hayle boat Mellanear came ashore in thick fog 1929
subject: Anno
description: All crew were saved but the ship broke in two and was total loss
source: Richards
date: 1929
identifier: WRECKS 32HF 090
coverage: Lands End

Lyminge ashore near Land's End after thick fog, September 19th 1931.
subject: Wreck
subject: Shipwreck
description: The Lyminge was a steamer owned by the Messrs of Constants of Cardiff. The vessel wrecked at Gurnards Hedges on September 19th 1931. Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.98.
source: Richards
publisher: Morra Library
date: 1931
identifier: WRECKS 32HF 089
coverage: Land's End