Oiled Gannets rescued from the sea after the Torrey Canyon disaster 20 miles off Land's End, March 1967
Typed label attached to the back of the print:
BRITAIN'S BATTLE FOR THE BEACHES
Victims of the oil slicks. Three gannets, normally a dazzling white, that were rescued from the sea after the tanker Torrey Canyon, laden with 120,000 tons of crude oil, ran aground on the Seven Stones reef, 20 miles off Land's End.
Please acknowledge : Photograph by SERENA WADHAM
Serena Wadham
1967-03
Silver Bromide Print
Photograph
SWA.EX.053
West Cornwall
Torrey Canyon wrecked on Seven Stones 1967
Ship MOTOR
Angove
1967
Morrab library
Print
WRECK 8.023
Lands End
Wreck of Lifeboat from Torrey Canyon, 1967
Wreck
Angove
1967
Morrab library
Print
WRECK 4.040
Seven Stones Reef
Stevenson trawler PZ 195 "William Stevenson"
Miscellaneous
coloured photo of Stevenson Trawler Pz 195 William Stevenson spraying detergent all the fishing boats were rigging up sprays.. stored with other Torrey Canyon photos folder in Collin's Wrecks Drawer.
don Glyn Richards
1967
© Morrab Library
Photograph
M.1775
Newlyn/Mousehole
Coloured photo taken of the effect of the Torrey C
Miscellaneous
Coloured photo taken of the effect of the Torrey Canyon Oil Spill in Porthleven Harbour where the oil was funnelled in.
Taken by and donated by Glyn Richards
1967
© Morrab Library
Photograph
M.1774
Porthleven