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From a negative made of the album

From a negative made of the album

Outside Trinity House

Team of eleven men, three seated cross-legged, five kneeling, three standing with three other men in suits.
Teams wearing studded boots and sports shirts with Cornish, two wearing belts.
Image shows photograph with torn edges pinned to board.

Four females seated, young baby to old woman, possibly one family through generations.
Image shows photograph pinned on to board with newspaper cutting. Reads "..s, is great ..e Scout SSWC ..e call ov.. favour"

Image shows a partial photograph of a naval reservist pinned to a board.
Bushy handlebar moustache

Studio portrait, wearing patterned jumper under jacket, two pens in left breast pocket, crown insignia on pocket

Flat topped hat and plenty of braid and decoration to uniform. Four upward chevrons on arm possibly indicate rank of staff sergeant or company quartermaster.

very over-exposed

Ship is probably The Enterprise, schooner, re-floated a fortnight later.

Top photo: A Submarine ashore at Carn Gloose, St Just.
Bottom photo: not clear but researcher indicates this is of people looking at the 'Hindenburg' Zeppelin above Pordenack Point at Land's End.

The trawler is shown ashore, under Tregiffian Cliffs, near Lamorna
The boat had developed engine trouble in heavy seas. The Master and deckhand were saved by rocket apparatus (Breeches Buoy), but the other lives were lost.

The trawler is shown ashore, under Tregiffian Cliffs, near Lamorna
The boat had developed engine trouble in heavy seas. The Master and deckhand were saved by rocket apparatus (Breeches Buoy), but the other lives were lost.

Lamorna Birch newspaper obituary.

Wreck of Italian cargo ship Aida Lauro which ran aground in fog

SS Umbre ran aground at Pendeen ,. Detailed reports on:
https://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?76121