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Bakers in Pendeen.

Lived in Trewellard, Pendeen, Cornwall

Built circa 1730 and situated in Belle View, Newlyn. Named after a former resident in the 1960s, artist Frank Dewar an ex Naval Officer, who specialised in paintings of sailing ships. The cottage notably has a ship's figurehead in the front garden.

Aground in fog at Lamorna Cove.
The stranded passengers had to be ferried off by rowing boat. The ferry was later reflected, but was later sunk by a mine in Falmouth Bay 1939

"Lady of the Isles" the Isles of Scilly Ferry at the Albert Pier Penzance with Chyandour Smelting stacks in the distance. Small sailing vessel in the foreground

"Lady Of The Isles" Scilly Packet with passengers departing on Penzance Quay.

J Hubert Newman, Sydney, Australia

After leaving Falmouth the ship struck the Runnelstone sustaining serious damage. She was towed to Porthcurno by tug Elliot and Jeffery but soon broke up November 4th 1895

Summer house of Anne Vivian

The Eureka was a Brigham fishing vessel that wrecked on the rocks of Larrigan Beach in May 6th 1934.

The trawler, Registered Number BM 374, broke loose her Anchor in Newlyn Harbour coming ashore by the Bolitho Gardens, Lariggan Penzance.
The…

The Eureka was a Brigham fishing vessel that wrecked on the rocks of Larrigan Beach in May 6th 1934.

The trawler, Registered Number BM 374, broke loose her Anchor in Newlyn Harbour coming ashore by the Bolitho Gardens, Lariggan Penzance.
The…

The Auxiliary packet Earl of Arran ran ashore on Irishman's ledge on the July 16 1872. Built in Paisley in 1860 for the Ardrossen to Arran passenger run, the Earl of Arran served in the Clyde from 1860 until 1868, when she worked excursions between…

The Dunboyne was a full-rigged ship built at Whitehaven and launched in March 1888. Now renamed the af Chapman she is still afloat, and is reputedly the World's third oldest surviving iron-built ship (the Euterpe, built in the Isle of Man, is one…

Lobster fishing

she was thee largest oil tanker in the world at the time (12,350 tons) The crew were rescued by the Lizard lifeboat. She wqs later towed by two tugs to Falmouth harbour

no one knows what happened.

There was never an explanation for the circumstances but the ship was a total wreck