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An etching aquatint, named 'The Sand Cart' by Newlyn School artist and printmaker Geoffrey Sneyd Garnier 1889-1970.

The 827-ton steam coaster, Yewcroft, bound from the Thames to Bristol with cement, wandered off course in dense fog and grounded near Cudden Point. A few hours later, as the tide ebbed from beneath her, she broke in half.

Description from Richard…

Artist unknown

Print number 25. Unknown artist

Group of men, including two policemen, watching wreck of Spanish coaster wrecked at Black Head Rock later drifted to Lowland Point, near Coverack, The Lizard
According to Spanish newspaper report (6th November 1951 - Google translation) " The…

Two men and two women sitting on sloping grass in sunshine. Marjorie and Reggie on the right.

Black kitten playing on doorstep

Sitting on grass slope, unknown woman, Barbara holding daffodils and Marjorie. Same occasion as MG.162.

Group of men, including two policemen, watching wreck of Spanish coaster wrecked at Black Head Rock later drifted to Lowland Point, near Coverack, The Lizard
According to Spanish newspaper report (6th November 1951 - Google translation) " The…

Young Barbara wearing shorts, metal bucket in the sand in the foreground.

The Belgian motor trawler Omer Denise went ashore on the opposite side of the Coverack Bay, at Perprean Cove. She was found next morning, stern first on the rocks, abandoned but with her engine still running. She broke up where she lay and her crew…

Caption on image " Wreck of SS Ornais II ashore at Perran"

Very blurred image of Reggie and Marjorie

Barbara on left in flowery dress.
Her relationship with the others is unknown.

The Paris left Southampton on 20 May 1899 with 380 passengers and 372 crew and collected a further 50 passengers from Cherbourg, then making passage to New York. The ship diverted to Eddystone and Lizard Lighthouses to get a navigational fix.…

Marjorie, barefoot on a beach holding a large fish and rod

The Paris left Southampton on 20 May 1899 with 380 passengers and 372 crew and collected a further 50 passengers from Cherbourg, then making passage to New York. The ship diverted to Eddystone and Lizard Lighthouses to get a navigational fix.…

Marjorie, Barbara and another young woman sitting in front of a wind break by sand dunes