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Battleship in Mount's Bay with fishing boats
Note spotter plane on turret
Dredger Leitrim, removing silt from entrance to Penzance harbour
The dredger is very low in the water.
R.M.S. Peninnis, Isles of Scilly Steamship
Awaiting high tide to enter dock for an overhaul, equipped with wireless cables
Long gig in shallow water, family on board
Two adults and four children. (This is listed as a whole plate negative but is actually half plate)
Close-up view of Longships Lighthouse
Note the keepers standing on the platform
Relief Keeper being winched onto the Longships Lighthouse from Mermaid, Trinity House relief vessel. 1935
Relief keeper arriving by winch, possibly Mermaid , Trinity House relief vessel.
Close-up view of the Sevenstones Lightship at sea
Detailed description of the lightship is available via the link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevenstones_Lightship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevenstones_Lightship
A view of Round Island Lighthouse, Isles of Scilly, 1935
The Lighthouse was built in 1887 was completely modernised in 1967
Eddystone Lighthouse note stump pf Smeatons Tower
1935
Smeatons Tower is now on Plymouth Hoe. Present Lighthouse was fourth to be build on the rock
Poor photo of Eddystone lighthouse top cut off 1935
Note base of earlier tower alongside
Eddystone Lighthouse , Plymouth in fairly calm seas. 1937
Note base of earlier tower
alongside
alongside
Engine room at Tater-Du lighthouse. Lamorna nr. Newlyn
1965
Lighthouse is completely automatic and unmanned and both fog signal and light are monitored from Trinity House depot in Penzance
Engine room at Tater-Du Lighthouse near Newlyn. 1965
The lighthouse is automatic and unmanned both light and fog signal are monitored from Trinity House depot in Penzance
Electric filament lamp at Tater-Du Lighthouse. near Lamorna.
1965
A group of three white flashes every 15 seconds intensity of 350,000 candle power Red light of 7,000 candle power shown over the Runnelstone Rock