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A square formation of terracotta patterned floor tiles at the Parish Church of St Gwinear

The pattern is made up of three lion patterned floor tiles and one with birds.

A square formation of terracotta patterned floor tiles at the Parish Church of St Gwinear

The pattern is made up of two lion patterned floor tiles and two with birds.

A Section of a larger square formation at the Parish Church of St Gwinear.

The Formation is made using the same terracotta patterned floor tiles.

Square rigged sailing ship from a painting.

Square rigged Sailing Ship from the Christopher Borlase Sketchbook (1747) p 30 neg only. 1747.. Retreat of French privateer of Bordeaux sunk by H M S Monmouth March 20 1747

Four policemen talk together outside an illegal squat in Ilford. Three faces look out from the building, one person has a loudspeaker and posters in the window declare 'Occupied by London Squatters'.

The Abertay was a 599-ton steel screw, schooner rigged steamer. Owned by Bois et Chabois of Lorient and bound for Barry with a cargo of pit wood. Launched in 1888 by W. Simon & Company of Renfrew.


She had sailed from France thirty-six hours…

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One of the largest ships to wreck on the Cornish Coast, the Ansgir, was one of many vessels of the German Merchant Marine.

Completed a dew weeks after the Armistice of 1918, she was created by A K Ges Neptune of Rostock, on the Baltic. She was a…

The 1, 661-ton brigantine-rigged Brankelow of Liverpool was under charter to the Russian government, laden with coal from Cardiff to Kronstadt, when she grounded near Gunwalloe in a light south-westerly breeze and slight haze at 12:30 a.m on April…

The S.S Brinkburn was a four year old, 3,229 tons gross steamer which sunk on December 15th 1898.

The steamer was bound from Galveston, Texas, to Le Havre with 8,895 bales of cotton and 6,720 bags of cotton seed. She struck the Maiden Bower and…

City of Cardiff SS was a British cargo steamer of 3,089grt. On the 21st March 1912 she was wrecked in Mill Bay Nanjizal near Land's End when on passage from Le Havre for Cardiff in ballast. Read more at wrecksite:…

Man being rescued with a breeches buoy, from close-by position on cliff-top; bow of ship in background.

View of ship from cliff-top with figure being rescued by breeches buoy.

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The 1,835 ton- Liverpool Collier County of Salop, Master Evan, was in water ballast from Le Harve to the Mersey before coming ashore at Watson Mouth, at 14:00 pm on March 10th 1892.

The collier, launched at Barrow in 1882, was demolished for…

PHOTO FROM A POSTCARD OF AN ENGRAVING

I K Brunels Ship Built in Wapping Dock Bristol & floated 19 Jul 1843 She returned for Refit 4 Jul 1970. Postcard of Drawing

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steamship Liberty ( Liberia) hit the rocks under Pendeen Watch while on voyage from Newport to La Goulette. All the crew was saved and the wreck was salvaged. Wikipedia