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S Merlin pictured with passengers wrapped up for a pleasure trip from Penzance
PEZPH : 1994.1.211
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PH 269 'Canterbury Bell', the Plymouth Trawler smack run aground behind Penzance Extension Pier, Friday 24 April 1891. (Cornishman 30 April 1891). The 'Canterbury Bell' PH269 was built in Rye, Sussex by J C Hoad for George Coles, smack owner, of 4 Hoe Gardens, Plymouth in 1878. She was 75.2ft registered length with 20.2ft beam and 9.25ft depth of hold. She grounded leaving Penzance Harbour on 24 April 1891. An anchor was put out by 'hobblers' and she warped off using her steam capstan. She had already been dismasted during the Blizzard of 1891 (9th to 13th March) at a cost of £120 in repairs. No doubt the cost of additional repairs contributed to her sale to Calstock owners as a coaster in June 1891. She was wrecked at Wemyss Bay, Fife on 29 December 1908.
PEZPH : 1994.1.23
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The Plymouth smack 'Canterbury Bell' aground at the back of Penzance Lighthouse Pier.
PEZPH : 1994.1.13
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The event has not been identified but the gentlemen are wearing boaters which reached the height of popularity in the 1890s.
PEZPH : 1994.1.1
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framed to make an oval scene, this picture is rather unclear but seems to constitute seven trees framing a house in the countryside.
PEZPH : 1994.1.11
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SS Ormerod was a collier owned by J H Bennetts the local fuel merchant. Built in 1885, it was 52 metres (171' long weighing 474 tons and was the model for Stanhope Forbes's painting, "The Stone Boat" showing the Lighthouse boy sculling a boat off Newlyn Harbour with an old man is fishing. Owned by J.H. Bennett between 1891-1912 then sold to Norway
PEZPH : 1994.1.12
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The SS Busby foundering on rocks near Pendeen Watch in 1894
PEZPH : 1992.1582
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Celebrations to mark the Coronation of King George VI
PEZPH : 1992.1669
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