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"Boy James" PZ 143 delivering supplies to the Longships lighthouse.
Same delivery as LIGHT 18PG 063 -67

Boats in harbour at Exeter Maritime Museum.

The Cromdale came ashore at at Bass Point, after a one hundred and twenty-dour day journey from Taltal, Chile with a cargo of Nitrates. She was already a week overdue at Falmouth when, nearing the Lizard, she ran into dense fog on the evening of May…

The Cromdale came ashore at at Bass Point, after a one hundred and twenty-dour day journey from Taltal, Chile with a cargo of Nitrates. She was already a week overdue at Falmouth when, nearing the Lizard, she ran into dense fog on the evening of May…

The Cromdale came ashore at at Bass Point, after a one hundred and twenty-dour day journey from Taltal, Chile with a cargo of Nitrates. She was already a week overdue at Falmouth when, nearing the Lizard, she ran into dense fog on the evening of May…

The Cromdale came ashore at at Bass Point, after a one hundred and twenty-dour day journey from Taltal, Chile with a cargo of Nitrates. She was already a week overdue at Falmouth when, nearing the Lizard, she ran into dense fog on the evening of May…

The Cromdale came ashore at at Bass Point, after a one hundred and twenty-dour day journey from Taltal, Chile with a cargo of Nitrates. She was already a week overdue at Falmouth when, nearing the Lizard, she ran into dense fog on the evening of May…

The Auxiliary packet Earl of Arran ran ashore on Irishman's ledge on the July 16 1872. Built in Paisley in 1860 for the Ardrossen to Arran passenger run, the Earl of Arran served in the Clyde from 1860 until 1868, when she worked excursions between…

Passmore Edwards Newlyn Art Gallery, built in 1895 and dedicated to artist John Opie.

Small Sepia image on card from the 'Royal Series' showing the Telegraph Station, Porthcurno.

A stall in Penzance selling May Hornes with a group of onlookers possibly family members.

Street floods, the Stennack, St. Ives.

Mending fishing nets on Smeatons Pier, St Ives.

Postcard caption reads "Outward bound from St Ives".

Three men clean fish on a table in St Ives harbour. A fourth man leans against a boat whilst seagulls scavenge what is thrown away.

Four fishermen sorting and cleaning fish at St Ives harbour.

The postcard entitled "Fresh Pilchards" depicts a woman fish jowster sitting atop her donkey cart holding a mackerel.

Postcard depicting a Cornish fishwife in Market Jew Street, Penzance. The postcard is heavily doctored, and the 'fishwife' is probably composited into the scene.

A busy Mousehole harbour in the c1920s.