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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

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

Draper

At the Ferns.

Detached stone double-fronted house in thick snow.
Image taken from front garden, shrubs, plants and birdbath in foreground.

Dog, maybe collie or spaniel, in a park.
Town houses in the background.

Hillside view, river and village in background.
Same scene as MG.378.

Two cats, out of focus, one ginger or tabby, the one behind black, sitting on wall with ivy in background.

Evening scene in town, bus and shops

Two cats, one black, one tabby or ginger, focussing on something above them out of shot.

Blurry image of a black bird flapping wings in snowy scene.

Two black cats looking out of French window. One behind the other, almost looks like one cat with two heads.

Snow drifts and telegraph pole

Leal Souvenir from the Garstins 1908

David M was trying to negotiate the River hayle - later refloated