Fishing vessel Rosebud leaving Newlyn for London

SHIP 25PG 117.tif

Title

Fishing vessel Rosebud leaving Newlyn for London

Description

This epic voyage was to hand a petition in to Houses of Parliament signed by more than a thousand people protesting against destruction of village.

The Rosebud was owned by the Richards family. After the war she was sold the Thomas family who renamed her Cynthia-Yvonne.

Anticlockwise - top left: ?, Joseph Pollard Harvey, Jimmy Strick Matthews, William Roberts (local preacher, known as "Billy Bosun"), Benjamin Green Batten (with cigarette), ?

Date

1937

Identifier

SHIP 25PG 117

Coverage

Newlyn

Period Costume

N

Individual Names

Rosebud