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The French schooner MARIE CELINE, Blanchard master, sailed from Falmouth port yesterday for Gijon, with pitch, and during last night's gale went ashore near Portscatho, and likely to become a total wreck. Crew saved.

She was lying on rocks badly…

The 286-ton steel schooner Voorspoed of Amsterdam, W.K. machinery and general cargo, failed to weather Droskyn Point, in a fresh northerly gale on March 7th 1901.

Sampson Mitchell of Alma fame, hit her mainmast with the first rocket, and the…

Albumen print; damage to top right corner

The Plymouth Steam Trawler went ashore went ashore on Porth Hellick, St. Marys in 1902. The image shows how the crew were waiting for the eventual high tide to eventually re-float the vessel.

Description of wreck from Richard Larn, Cornish…

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 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…

Situated on the Western Promenade

This building was situated on the Western Promenade, Penzance

Known locally as a "Slab", the one in the picture was situated in 43 Medrose Terrace, Penzance. home of the Orchard family

Kneelers on the roof

Frontage

General view

Stonework portal, Trewwoofe Manor, Lamorna

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…

Albumen print; some damage to upper corners

Tommy Thomas welder with Holman Bros. Note 1837 weather vane with Lloyds Bank symbol

Albumen print