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The South America was a steel screw steamer of 4,197 tons gross. She was owned by Nitrate Producers Company of London and had sailed from Hamburg bound for Cardiff in water ballast, under charter to the Hamburg Amerika Line.

The weather was poor…

The South America was a steel screw steamer of 4,197 tons gross. She was owned by Nitrate Producers Company of London and had sailed from Hamburg bound for Cardiff in water ballast, under charter to the Hamburg Amerika Line.

The weather was poor…

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

View of ship from cliff-top with figure being rescued by breeches buoy.

Print damaged at lower left corner.

View from ahead from beach, with fore topsail still set.

Distant view of the ship, capsized and half-submerged in heavy surf with rocky coastline in background

Ship shown from starboard quarter, semi-submerged.

The Pindos launched in June 1890 by Williamson of Workington as the Eusemere, was a steel, four-masted barque of 2,354 tons net and 2,512 gross, built for the firm of Fisher & Sprott of London.

In 1896 she was sold to B. Wencke & Company of…

The 1,597-ton steel ship, Hansy, launched at Dumbarton by Alexander Macmillan & Sons in 1885 as the Aberfoyle.

In the course of a somewhat chequered career, she had been picked up in Bass Strait, Tasmania in 1896 by a steamer which had found her…

185x135mm. Bottom of Church Street. Fisherman's rest seat

155x100mm. Children in Street, looking upwards

110x80mm Gwavas Road leading to Paul Village. Same image as JDC 022

170x120mm. Mann's Cottage on Gwavas road, Newlyn. The last thatched cottage in Newlyn. Burnt down in 1938

175x125mm. Gwavas Road leading to Paul Village. To the right , cottages were demolished to build Newlyn Centenary Methodist Church

175x120mm. Gwavas Road, Mann's thatched cottage. Road at right to St Peter's Hill, up hill to Gwavas and on to Paul Village.

205x135mm Gwavas Road area to the left- site of Centenary Methodist Church. To the right is Mann's cottage, which burnt down in 1937. Centre, junction of Trewarveneth Street.

General view with sailing vessels

View at full tide

General view at low water