Acc.no: PEZPH : 2001.120.209
Identification
Item: The wreck of the Vert Prarial at Wireless Point, Porthcurno on 13 March 1956 with total loss of life
Description: The wreck of the French trawler, "Vert Prarial", under the cliffs at Wireless Point, Porthcurno. The bodies of the entire Breton crew, including the Skipper Jean Baptiste Coppin, of 17 were taken home to Dieppe from Penzance on the trawler Gai Floreal (which grounded west of St Ives on 4 January 1963.) The Vert Prarial, Gai Floreal and the Jean Gougy were of the same 32m class built in Canada in 1948 as part of the Comptoir de Reconstruction to rebuild the French industrial fishing fleet after World War II.
Collection Name: Harry Penhaul Collection
Condition: Good
Description
Height: 145 mm
Width: 205 mm
Material: Paper
Production
Method: Printed
Date: 1950
Person: Penhaul, Harry
Category: Photography
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