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Penlee Lifeboat helping a Loewstft Drifter aground off Eastern Green ,Penzance.

Lowestoft Drifter unmeshing Mackerel Newlyn Pier

Lowestoft Drifters at Newlyn. 1904..

Lowestoft boats moored at Newlyn in the 1930s. Steam drifters, they could be seen from Cornwall's southern cliffs as a long string of sparkling lights on the horizon when they fished the pilchard harvest from late August into October.

These boats became mine-sweepers during First and Second World Wars

These became Minesweepers druing both World Wars trawling for mines and sweeping the English Channel clear for larger ships.

Catch of mackerel on board

The boat is LT 53 "Girl Annie".

Account given at the inquest as reported in the Cornishman 1908-06-11

The stranding of the Lowestoft sailing trawler Girl Annie, near Pordenack Point, Land's End, on May 4th 1908, was investigated at a Board of Trade inquiry held at Lowestoft on…

Numbers: J.T 570; LT1049

Lowestoft steam drifter L T 570 in Penzance Harbour.
Trinity House and buoy in the background

Broken negative
LT 215

Name on Boat "Formidable LT 100"

Lt Col F C Hirst of the West Cornwall Field Club standing beside it.
Looks like hedging and Hills around Zennor, Morvah area. I assume he wrote a report for the West Cornwall Field Club. menhir used as a gatepost.
The gate is a traditional Penwith…

Man in hat resting or sleeping leaning against ox cart with two oxen and several chickens.

Built by Fairfields, Glasgow in 1893 destroyed by fire at Liverpool in 1909.
First ship to carry refrigerating machinery.
Angove's description of, 'charred timber and scorched plaster' does not appear to apply to the photo(?).

Luciano Berio