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sail maker Mr. willoughby in sail loft New Street, Penzance

Sial maker at work, Sail Loft, New Street, Penzance

A Procession of Nuns and Nurses at St Michaels Hospital ,Hayle

Woodlands ground covered in snow. Print from damaged and destroyed negative

Drift reservoir surface nearly frozen over. Print from negative damaged and destroyed

View of coastline looking eastward taken from Logan Rock Porthcurno

Beach, bay sea and cliffs taken from Logan Rock

Porthcurno beach and bay from Logan Rock, showing cliffs and Cable & Wireless hut top of cliffs

View of the mountain lake at base of Snowdon

The Steel masted, Socoa, of Bayonne stranded near Cadgwith in thick weather while on passage from Stettin to San Francisco.

She was carrying cement intended for the rebuilding of that earthquake-shattered city and 50,000 barrels of it had to be…

On Saturday December 15th 1979, HM Coastguard informed Padstow Lifeboat Station that the Skopelos Sky, a 2800 Greek freighter
was in trouble off Trevose Head. She was on route from Garston for Algiers with a cargo of drums of lubricating oil. The…

Carnival float possibly Penzance, sec crate with Poole & sons Penzance. See also M.576

Print and negative

The largest and best-known sailing-ship wreck in Perran Bay was the French nitrate clipper Seine, an elegant three masted steel barque of 2,630 tons gross launched in 1889 by La Porte of Rouen for the celebrated fleet of A.D Bordes et Fils of…

The largest and best-known sailing-ship wreck in Perran Bay was the French nitrate clipper Seine, an elegant three masted steel barque of 2,630 tons gross launched in 1889 by La Porte of Rouen for the celebrated fleet of A.D Bordes et Fils of…

The largest and best-known sailing-ship wreck in Perran Bay was the French nitrate clipper Seine, an elegant three masted steel barque of 2,630 tons gross launched in 1889 by La Porte of Rouen for the celebrated fleet of A.D Bordes et Fils of…