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The Belgian motor trawler Omer Denise went ashore on the opposite side of the Coverack Bay, at Perprean Cove. She was found next morning, stern first on the rocks, abandoned but with her engine still running. She broke up where she lay and her crew…

Young Barbara wearing shorts, metal bucket in the sand in the foreground.

Group of men, including two policemen, 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…

Sitting on grass slope, unknown woman, Barbara holding daffodils and Marjorie. Same occasion as MG.162.

Black kitten playing on doorstep

Two men and two women sitting on sloping grass in sunshine. Marjorie and Reggie on the right.

Group of men, including two policemen, 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…

Print number 25. Unknown artist

Artist unknown

The 827-ton steam coaster, Yewcroft, bound from the Thames to Bristol with cement, wandered off course in dense fog and grounded near Cudden Point. A few hours later, as the tide ebbed from beneath her, she broke in half.

Description from Richard…

An etching aquatint, named 'The Sand Cart' by Newlyn School artist and printmaker Geoffrey Sneyd Garnier 1889-1970.

In the process of being built

Opening ceremony

Two ladies, Barbara on the left, standing on rocks by the sea.

Barbara and Marjorie picking primroses

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…

Group of men on shore watching 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…

A group of people, an older couple and a younger couple, Reggie and Marjorie, standing in front of a car.

Group of men watching 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…