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Man being rescued with a breeches buoy, from close-by position on cliff-top; bow of ship in background.

City of Cardiff SS was a British cargo steamer of 3,089grt. On the 21st March 1912 she was wrecked in Mill Bay Nanjizal near Land's End when on passage from Le Havre for Cardiff in ballast. Read more at wrecksite:…

The S.S Brinkburn was a four year old, 3,229 tons gross steamer which sunk on December 15th 1898.

The steamer was bound from Galveston, Texas, to Le Havre with 8,895 bales of cotton and 6,720 bags of cotton seed. She struck the Maiden Bower and…

The 1, 661-ton brigantine-rigged Brankelow of Liverpool was under charter to the Russian government, laden with coal from Cardiff to Kronstadt, when she grounded near Gunwalloe in a light south-westerly breeze and slight haze at 12:30 a.m on April…

One of the largest ships to wreck on the Cornish Coast, the Ansgir, was one of many vessels of the German Merchant Marine.

Completed a dew weeks after the Armistice of 1918, she was created by A K Ges Neptune of Rostock, on the Baltic. She was a…

Albumen print

The Abertay was a 599-ton steel screw, schooner rigged steamer. Owned by Bois et Chabois of Lorient and bound for Barry with a cargo of pit wood. Launched in 1888 by W. Simon & Company of Renfrew.


She had sailed from France thirty-six hours…

Four policemen talk together outside an illegal squat in Ilford. Three faces look out from the building, one person has a loudspeaker and posters in the window declare 'Occupied by London Squatters'.

Square rigged Sailing Ship from the Christopher Borlase Sketchbook (1747) p 30 neg only. 1747.. Retreat of French privateer of Bordeaux sunk by H M S Monmouth March 20 1747

Square rigged sailing ship from a painting.

A Section of a larger square formation at the Parish Church of St Gwinear.

The Formation is made using the same terracotta patterned floor tiles.

A square formation of terracotta patterned floor tiles at the Parish Church of St Gwinear

The pattern is made up of two lion patterned floor tiles and two with birds.

A square formation of terracotta patterned floor tiles at the Parish Church of St Gwinear

The pattern is made up of three lion patterned floor tiles and one with birds.

W.R.N.S. on card, but identified as A.T.S. by Mr Sculthorpe-Wright researching RAF Skewjack

W.R.N.S. on card identified as A.T.S. by Mr Sculthorpe-Wright
researching Skewjack

From Album 3 (Red)
Two women walking dogs down the lane

Girl Guide Team