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He intended to sail round the world from Newlyn

A group of people, possibly a family, gathered for a photograph in a garden. The same group appear in PEOP 21QG 382

Tinted lantern slide

Tinted lantern slide

Tinted Lantern slide

Fishing boat build 1913 owned by W Harvey registered n Lowestoft under LT706 wrecked near Penzance.
42 Gross Tonnage

The South America was a steel screw steamer of 4,197 tons gross. She was owned by Nitrate Producers Company of London and had sailed from Hamburg bound for Cardiff in water ballast, under charter to the Hamburg Amerika Line.

The weather was poor…

Family Picnic
Features Birch, Tuke, Tanner and Bell Leader.

Birch, Tanner and Tuke

The 2,297-ton steamer Tripolitania of Genoa sailed from her home port on December 181th 1912, in water ballast for Barry Dcoks, under the command of Captain Elia Reppito, and when deep in the Bay of Biscay encountered the worst storm to sweep the…

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…