Browse Items (18820 total)
Sort by:
Group of men pulling Lifeboat from house to sea .1920
Note Coxswain
Penzance Borough Firemen and Engine No 2
First full-time Fire Brigade, note gas mask boxes around the necks of firemen
Army Regiment wearing Topees. possibly Baluschistan. 1940
Information from Bob Harrison who thinks this photo was taken in India, Baluchistan.
RAF Group at Skewjack note two Alsations
Info on back of card corrects written, sent to Cornishman Mr Harry Spensley's
Penzance Home Guard at Chyandour Barracks
Front row, 5th from left, is 'Dike' Jones who post-war taught mathematics at the Boy's Grammar School until his retirement c. 1956.
Admiralty Barge washed up in unidentified cove 01 08 51
washed up in unidentified cove August 1st 1951
Admiralty Barge ashore on unknown rocky cove, Lands End 1951
August 1st 1951
Alba steamer which ran aground St Ives and lifeboat Caroline Parsons . 1935
Alba steamer from Panama ran aground in bad weather January 31st 1935 ,six members of the crew were lost.
Note the wreckage of the lifeboat Caroline Parsons which was also wrecked during an abortive rescue attempt.
Note the wreckage of the lifeboat Caroline Parsons which was also wrecked during an abortive rescue attempt.
Cecilia , ketch ashore at Porthgwidden Beach, St Ives, January 25th 1935
The Bideford ketch Cecilia became the last sailing ship to be wrecked in St. Ives Bay. Manned by Captain Frederick Bennett of Ilfracombe, and his sons John and Arthur, she broke loose while discharging coal from Lydney alongside Smeatons Pier during…
Clan Malcolm, wrecked at Mulvin Rock, September 26th 1935
The 5,994-ton Clan lines steamer Clam Malcolm of Glasgow, wrecked at Green lane at 9pm on September 26th while bound from Port Natal via London to Glashow.
Dense fog cloaked the headland at the time, and the coastguards were unaware of the wreck…
Dense fog cloaked the headland at the time, and the coastguards were unaware of the wreck…