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 Spanish ship ran aground on the Cornish coast. The ship began to sink and its seventeen crew members were saved by a British ship. The ship belonged to the registration of Gijon"
The salvage boat Barnet ( United Kingdom) standing guard overnight under the Warspite's bows, at Prussia Cove was holed in the engine room, towed off and eventually drifted ashore at Long Rock, a few miles to the west. Wikipedia
St. Guenole, wrecked at Gribba Point, November 1st 1948
Eleven years passed, and the tragedy of the Vierge Marie was repeated. Again, it was the usual 'wreck weather' for the western cliffs: hazy with heavy ground seas, the aftermath of a hard south-west gale. Shortly after one o'clock in the morning of November 1st 19148, the coastguard on watch at Treen saw the lights of a motor vessel emerge from a fierce squall of rain and head straight for the surf beating upon Pedn-e-Vounder sans. In response to the rapid blink of Aldis Lamp, she turned eastward and vanished round Logan Rock headland. Though she made no signal, either to acknowledge the warning or to ask for help, he called out Treen LSA Company and another coastguard and went down into Penberth Cove. There was no sign of the mysterious ship, but the wind was thick with the stench of fuel oil. Suddenly her saw a young man washing about in the surf and despite almost being swept away, dragged him out and carried him to a nearby cottage. Search parties began to scour the cliffs. A lifejacket marked 'ST GUENOLE-ROUEN' was pickier up on the rocks near the cove, and at dawn a vessel of about 500 tons was found bottom up beneath Gribba point, less then half a mile away. The St Guenole, a steel tar tanker owned by Cie Mar de Transport de Goudron of Rouen, bound in ballast from Nantes to Irvine on Clydside with a crew of twelve, was a total wreck. Twenty-three-year old Andre Fourcin, the sailor saved by the coastguard, was the sole survivor. The St Guenole rusted away beneath the Penberth Cliffs and the memory of the wreck slowly faded. Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.211-212.
Accompanying paperwork refers to Mr John J Beckerlegge giving lecture about night photography to the Photographic Section of the Plymouth Institution. He was Hon Sec in 1921.
View across Plymouth at night. Accompanying paperwork refers to Mr John J Beckerlegge giving lecture about night photography to the Photographic Section of the Plymouth Institution. He was Hon Sec in 1921.
Terraced houses at night. Accompanying paperwork refers to Mr John J Beckerlegge giving lecture to the Photographic Section of the Plymouth Institution about night photography. He was Hon Sec in 1921.
This bird is in several photographs, appears to be a pet, maybe crow
Man in tweeds and woman wearing glasses.
Marjorie and Reggie on beach wearing bathing costumes.
Barbara in floral dress at beach, possibly Porthcurno.
Wreck of Simon Marcelle or Simmone Marcel
Self Portrait, Henry S Tuke A. R. A.
HMS Warspite (03) was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship launched in 1913. She served in the First World War and in numerous operations in the Second World War, earning the most battle honours of any Royal Navy ship. She ran aground on her way to be broken up in 1947 and was scrapped in 1950.