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Man in tweeds and woman wearing glasses.

Marjorie and Reggie on beach wearing bathing costumes.

Barbara in floral dress at beach, possibly Porthcurno.

HMS Diomedes anchored in Mounts Bay

Wreck off Gurnards Head

Sel 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…

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…

Flamingo
Card from Tuke

Tuke returning from Work

steamer sail ship Aida Lauro ( Italy) on voyage from Liverpool to Hull went aground near Cape Cornwall in dense fog. All seventeen crew saved by the St Ives lifeboat

Lamorna Birch and HS Tuke at Boleigh

Lamorna Birch and Arthur Tanner at Swanpool.

Account taken from the RNLI Website RNLI.org
Thomas Cocking, Coxswain of the St Ives lifeboat hurries to the lifeboat station and fires two maroons to summon the rest of the crew. The lifeboat, Caroline Parsons, launches in record time and rounds St…

The only visible wreckage on the Doom Bar is the bottom tanks and plating of the minelayer HMS Medea, wrecked on January 28th 1939 during the hurricane which destroyed the Glasgow Collier Winston near Zennor. The 540-ton Medea, launched in 1915 by…

Le Vieux Tigre", which went on to Bass Point, The Lizard, in fog 27 March 1935

HS Tuke and Arthur Tanner

Lamorna Birch, Arthur Tanner and HS Tuke.