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note the R.A.F Culdrose helicopter and Penlee lifeboat searching for survivors

Note cork life jackets Coxswain Vingoe

Lifeboat 'The Newbons' heading towards the Lifeboat Station

"DL Harper' largest ship in the world at the time, wrecked off Lizard. Mounted Mulvin Rock? (Crane Rocks, Caertillion Cove)
First off 5 passengers, including mother and baby.
Lifeboat rescued 38 crew next morning.
Ship was repaired and was…

Sennen lifeboat 'The Newbons" beside the slip at the lifeboat station

Lifeboat launching ropes and men ' Daphne Pearce' St Ives Lifeboat Station CP24.

Photo of a photograph pinned to a board

V. inscription: German Liner 14th (sic) May 1875
343 (sic) lost 45 saved.

Record of salvage efforts reported in The Times 9th August 1875 Page 9 and copied in Collins Book B

Note early cork lifejackets ,ladies with collection boxes

photo of a photograph

Sennen lifeboat 'The Newbons' and its crew on the slipway

Lifeboat 'The Covent Garden' mounted on launching trolley,crew posing with oars. St Ives harbour with a large collection of tall ships.