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Portrait de Louis XIV dans le Musee du Chateau d Arques

Portrait de Francois 1st dans le Musee du Chateau d Arques

Rocky Stream

Portrait of a lady

Across Mounts Bay

Alacrity bound from Swansea to Belgium with coal ran aground in fog at Portheras Cove, near Pendeen Watch lighthouse. The wreck was later blown apart by explosives in an attempt to break the ship up for scrapping. However, some speculate that the…

Shortly before 5 am and on November 3rd 1962, the coastguard on watch at Cape Cornwall saw the navigation lights of the 250-ton Dieppe trawler, Jeanne Gougy, about two miles offshore.

She was steering southwards and he was expecting the lights to…

Crabber Pluie de Rose ( France) was wrecked at Trevedran Point, St Loy. The skipper swam ashore to raise the alarm at a farm. Two men were saved by breeches buoy and four men were picked up by the Penlee Lifeboat ( Royal National Lifeboat…

The 827-ton steam coaster, Yewcroft, bound from the Thames to Bristol with cement, wandered off course in dense fog and grounded near Cudden Point. A few hours later, as the tide ebbed from beneath her, she broke in half.

Description from Richard…

The French trawler Vert Prarial had left Brixam at 6pm on the 13th March 1956. Nothing more was heard from her, other than a weak distress signal prefixed by the call sign "Dieppe 1517". At 5.45 am on the 14th the Coastguard received a telephone call…

Lowestoft Drifter crew about to be rescued by Penlee lifeboat 1930

At The Ferns

Seated in his garden at The Ferns, Cedar Road, Sutton.

Draper

At the Ferns.

'MARVELOUS' is written beside the photo - why?

Lawyer
5 Clarence Terrace

Question mark on the identification