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The Tripolitania was on passage from Genoa to Barry in ballast when it was hit by a gale and heavy weather, which drove it ashore onto the Loe Bar. The 27 crew and captain were rescued except for one who drowned. Despite attempts to refloat her by…

Joan Houghton

Lamorna and Jeffery

SS Blue Jacket ran around at longships.
Following account taken from Penwith Local History GroupThe last cargo of the long passage – railway sleepers from Danzig – is safely landed at Plymouth. It should be an easy trip for the Blue Jacket, round…

Lamorna with her father

Lamorna

Lamorna with Judy her dog

Might be Eleanor Hughes

Brixham Fishing boat Provider beached at Marazion in 1904

Lamorna with her dog

Watson class lifeboat Susan Ashley, the first lifeboat to have a superstructure made out of aluminium and one of thirteen 41ft Watson class boats designed for slipway launching. Susan Ashley saved 67 lives during her service at Sennen Cove in…

Lamorna

Lamorna at Oakhampton

Both seated , Barbara holding black and white cat.

Studio portrait. The back is annotated Grandpa Hichens, died 1924, aged 59. He was the father of Edith Hitchens who married Richard James Chappell.. (There are different spellings of the surname Hitchens.)

Barbara holding black and white cat.

Composite of 2 photos. The. crew members from left to right are: Bill Pender, Deryck Chappell, Maurice Hutchins, Eric Pengelly (Cox), Cyril Botterell, Philip Channon, and Eric Ellis

Barbara sitting in front of sideboard and small Christmas tree.
Wearing long silk dress, pearl necklace and wrist watch.

Richard James wearing a sailor suit, William in a dress.

Barbara doing handstand on sandy beach, rock face in background , Reggie holding her feet.