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250 ton transformer for Indian Queens leaving Quay at Penzance in May 1977.

Comic postcard sent to a recipient in St James Street Penzance from a soldier waiting for discharge in May 1919. Of interest is the Army Censors Stamp with the message to the reverse of the postcard

shipwrecks. Collection of negatives mostly Gibson , not likely to be originals .
Local wrecks see Collins shipwrecks

Group of men watching wreck of Spanish coaster wrecked at Black Head Rock later drifted to Lowland Point, near Coverack, The Lizard
According to Spanish newspaper report (6th November 1951 - Google translation) " The Spanish ship ran aground on the…

HMS Warspite (03) was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship launched in 1913. She served in the First World War and in numerous operations in the Second World War, earning the most battle honours of any Royal Navy ship. She ran aground on her way to be…

HMS Warspite (03) was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship launched in 1913. She served in the First World War and in numerous operations in the Second World War, earning the most battle honours of any Royal Navy ship. She ran aground on her way to be…

The French trawler Vert Prarial had left Brixam at 6pm on the 13th March 1956. Nothing more was heard from her, other than a weak distress signal prefixed by the call sign "Dieppe 1517". At 5.45 am on the 14th the Coastguard received a telephone call…

Wreck of the William Cory off Pendeen 1910. 1910..

Wreck of the 'Torrey Canyon' on the Seven Stones group of Prints.