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Schooner Kathleen & Mary

Print of Schooner Garina built by Umpleby Kirk and Sons, Cowes Isle of Wight

Photograph of a photograph mounted on board?. The schooner was later lost in the Bristol Channel

The Mary Hannah was on passage from Cardiff to Plymouth with a cargo of coal.

Disabled after the main boom was damaged in a huge sea and gale off the Lizard, she headed for Newlyn but was unable to enter the harbour and ran ashore at Tolcarne.…

Taken from cliffs with Longships in distance

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

End of the South Pier in view, showing the small building of the Tidal Observatory for the Ordnance Survey. The Tidal Observatory and a 100 foot extension to the South Pier were constructed between 1913 and 1915.
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Scillonian (Steam) at Lighthouse Pier Penzance group of passengers waiting.

On maiden voyage to Scilly Isles

The 900-ton HMV SCILLONIAN pictured in dry dock at Falmouth where she underwent a survey prior to an extensive refit.

PREVREF 1528 duplicate copy

Scillonian aground during wartime (see SHIP 4.030)

Scillonian aground on Scilly during wartime (see SHIP 4.027)