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Name on Boat "Formidable LT 100"

Broken negative
LT 215

Lowestoft steam drifter L T 570 in Penzance Harbour.
Trinity House and buoy in the background

Numbers: J.T 570; LT1049

Account given at the inquest as reported in the Cornishman 1908-06-11

The stranding of the Lowestoft sailing trawler Girl Annie, near Pordenack Point, Land's End, on May 4th 1908, was investigated at a Board of Trade inquiry held at Lowestoft on…

The boat is LT 53 "Girl Annie".

Catch of mackerel on board

These became Minesweepers druing both World Wars trawling for mines and sweeping the English Channel clear for larger ships.

These boats became mine-sweepers during First and Second World Wars

Lowestoft boats moored at Newlyn in the 1930s. Steam drifters, they could be seen from Cornwall's southern cliffs as a long string of sparkling lights on the horizon when they fished the pilchard harvest from late August into October.

Lowestoft Drifters at Newlyn. 1904..

Lowestoft Drifter unmeshing Mackerel Newlyn Pier

Penlee Lifeboat helping a Loewstft Drifter aground off Eastern Green ,Penzance.

Note large catch

Lowestoft Drifter crew about to be rescued by Penlee lifeboat 1930

Lord Wenlock LT 1143 , Lowestoft fishing boat

Note large Cartwheels in the ditch

Lower Market Jew Street junction with Adelaide Street Motor Vehicle and Carriage with 4 horses.

Lower Market Jew Street Coach and horses Entrance to Congregational Chapel C Stokes Wholesale Haberdasher. Street hoarding advertising 'Follow the Fleet' Cinema in Causewayhead opened 1912