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A port side view, fine off the port bow, of the passenger liner Malta (1865), submerged to the forecastle, off the rocks in the bay on the north-east side of Kendijack Castle (Glass plate negative)
A view from a rocky beach towards the Hellweathers with sections of hull and transom from a wreck in the foreground (Glass plate negative)
A section of the upturned hull of the seven-masted schooner Thomas W. Lawson (1902) off the rocks off Annet, Isles of Scilly (Glass plate negative)
A starboard bow view of the passenger liner Malta (1865) mostly submerged, wrecked off the rocks in the bay on the north-east side of Kendijack Castle. (Sheet film negative)
A cart parked outside the steps to St. Keverne Chuch containing the body of a person killed in the sinking of the passenger/cargo ship Mohegan (1898) (Glass plate negative)
The back of a large group of mourners standing beside the mass grave for those who died when the passenger/cargo ship Mohegan (1898) was wrecked (Glass plate negative)
A young bull (steer) ashore on the beach at Samson Island, Isles of Scilly, having been rescued from the grounded passenger/cargo liner Minnehaha (1900). (Glass plate negative)
The fishing boat SC41 with a rowing boat close to the beach of Samson Island with salvaged cattle from the passenger/cargo liner Minnehaha (1900). (Glass plate negative)
The Penzance-registered lugger PZ 371 with a small rowing boat off the beach landing saved cattle from the Minnehaha (1900) (Glass plate negative)
A bow view of the Isles of Scilly-registered auxiliary fishing lugger SC41 just off a beach untying cattle salvaged from the grounded passenger/cargo liner Minnehaha (1900) (Glass plate negative)
Three men in a rowing boat aground on a beach with a bull pulling backwards on the rope tied to his horns. (Glass plate negative)
A view across a field towards the islands behind with rescued cattle from the cargo/liner Minnehaha (1900). (Glass plate negative)
Rescued cattle from Minnehaha (1900) grazing on Samson Island (Glass plate negative)
A close-up view of the auxilary fishing lugger SC41 with two cattle standing in the water off the beach on Samson Island. (Glass plate negative)
The fishing boat SC 41 with a rowing boat close to the beach of Samson Island with salvaged cattle from the passenger/cargo liner Minnehaha (1900) (Sheet film negative)
A starboard bow view of the wrecked cargo ship Suffolk (1881) below the cliffs off the Lizard. (Glass plate negative)
A bow view of one of the battered lifeboats resting on the beach, from the wrecked passenger/cargo ship Mohegan (1898). (Glass plate negative)
An elevated view, fine of the starboard bow, of the passenger/cargo ship Suffolk (1881) wrecked below the cliffs of the Lizard Point. (Glass plate negative)
A distant view from the cliffs at the Lizard of the masts and funnel of the passenger/cargo ship Mohegan (1898) wrecked on the Manacles rocks. (Glass plate negative)
A distant port beam view of the passenger/cargo ship Suffolk (1881) semi-submerged off the clifds of the Lizard Point. (Glass plate negative)
A stern view of one of the surviving lifeboats from the wrecked passenger/cargo ship Mohegan (1898) (Glass plate negative)
A view of dead cattle on Polpeor Beach, below the Lizard Point, with salvaged sacks and timber from the wreck of the passenger/cargo ship Suffolk (1881). (Glass plate negative)
An elevated, fine of the port bow, view of the passenger/cargo ship Suffolk (1881) wrecked below the cliffs of Lizard Point. (Glass plate negative)
A view looking up the unmade roadway from the Polpeor Beach to Lizard Point, with salvaged sacks and timber stacked at the side from the wreck of the passenger/cargo ship Suffolk (1881). (Glass plate negative)
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