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Family at Porthgwarra

The family at Porthgwarra

Porthgwarra

Postcard of an etching of 'The Nile' . Wrecked off Godrevy Point partially responsible for a campaign to instal a lighthouse on Godrevy
Source: Wikipedia
The Nile, an iron-hulled screw steamer, was built at Dumbarton in 1850. She was first…

Lamorna on the quay

Busby left Newport on its maiden voyage for Civita Vecchia on 22 June with a cargo of 4,600 tons of coal and 26 crew. It ran aground on 24 June 1894 in thick fog. However, after the cargo was removed, and pumps installed the ship was refloated, only…

Busby left Newport on its maiden voyage for Civita Vecchia on 22 June with a cargo of 4,600 tons of coal and 26 crew. It ran aground on 24 June 1894 in thick fog. However, after the cargo was removed, and pumps installed the ship was refloated, only…

The Alexander Yeats (1876) was wrecked on voyage from Savannah, USA to Devonport Dockyard, via Holyhead, with a cargo of deals and pitch pine on 25 September 1896. The ship went aground on the east side of Gurnard's Head, swinging broadside into the…

The Alexander Yeats (1876) was wrecked on voyage from Savannah, USA to Devonport Dockyard, via Holyhead, with a cargo of deals and pitch pine on 25 September 1896. The ship went aground on the east side of Gurnard's Head, swinging broadside into the…

Sending in Day

Clive Carter´s "Cornish Shipwrecks, The North Coast" states: This wreck´s tragic story began at 2.30 am on the 22nd January 1939 when St. Just coastguard sighted a large steamer smothered by breaking seas 2 miles north of Cape Cornwall. At the time…

HMS Warspite was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s. Completed during the First World War in 1915, she was assigned to the Grand Fleet and participated in the Battle of Jutland. Other than…

Young girl with bow and slide in hair, holding bunch of flowers.
She's sitting on a plaid blanket outside, house in background.
Possibly related to slightly older girl in MG.309, who holds same bunch of flowers.

Photo taken same time as MG.310 and MG.309
Girls had bow and sits on plaid blanket outside

Young girl with bow and slide in hair, holding bunch of flowers.
She's sitting on a plaid blanket outside, house in background.
Possibly related to slightly older girl in MG.309, who holds same bunch of flowers.

Young Girl with bow and slide in hair.
Image taken outside in a countryside setting.
Possibly related to slightly younger girl in MG.310, who holds same bunch of flowers.

Subject has unknown insignia and initials RFC on left breast pocket on jacket. Possibly a football club?