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Lifeboat Solomon Browne. 16 people died including 8 lifeboatmen.

Lifeboat Solomon Browne. 16 people died including 8 lifeboatmen.

The Belgian Motor trawler, Vierge Marie of Ostend was a 200 ton vessel. She was on her way into Newlyn after developing engine trouble off Pendeen the previous afternoon, and there had been no warning of how close the weather had brought her to the…

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Polish Sailing Ship
Built 1909
Sail Training/Racing Ship
Retired since 1983 - National Maritime Museum Gdansk

On May 22nd 1967, the Guy and Clare Hunter was launched to go to the aid of the motor-yacht Braemar. The wind was WSW force 7, gusting to force 9 with a rough sea and bad visibility, when Coxswain Lethbridge set course to intercept the Braemar, some…

Press Cutting: Telegraph, 1935-11-05

The 5,994-ton Clan lines steamer Clam Malcolm of Glasgow, wrecked at Green lane at 9pm on September 26th while bound from Port Natal via London to Glashow.

Dense fog cloaked the headland at the time, and…

Glass plate

Print of Popeye (dredger grounded in Carbis Bay near Upton Towans with 2 children standing by