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Overview, image reproduced from an original oil painting, artist unknown

Bessie was on passage from Cardiff to Portland with a cargo of coal, when it became caught in a gale on the night of 18 November 1893.

Bessie hit the western side of the Hayle Estuary and fortunately floated off and was carried by the wind and…

Bessie was on passage from Cardiff to Portland with a cargo of coal, when it became caught in a gale on the night of 18 November 1893. Bessie hit the western side of the Hayle Estuary and fortunately floated off and was carried by the wind and tide…

Photograph of illustration. Steamer ships Vulture and Bessie at Carbis Bay, near St Ives. A sketch by Mr Sydney H. Carr.

The American steamer Bessemer City wrecked at Clodgy in 1936, was launched in 1921 by the Chickasaw Shipbuilding Company of Alabama for the US Steel Production Company.

She was steel screw steamer of 3,450 tons net, 5,686 tons gross, powered by…

The American steamer Bessemer City wrecked at Clodgy in 1936, was launched in 1921 by the Chickasaw Shipbuilding Company of Alabama for the US Steel Production Company.

She was steel screw steamer of 3,450 tons net, 5,686 tons gross, powered by…

The American steamer Bessemer City wrecked at Clodgy in 1936, was launched in 1921 by the Chickasaw Shipbuilding Company of Alabama for the US Steel Production Company.

She was steel screw steamer of 3,450 tons net, 5,686 tons gross, powered by…

The American steamer Bessemer City wrecked at Clodgy in 1936, was launched in 1921 by the Chickasaw Shipbuilding Company of Alabama for the US Steel Production Company.

She was steel screw steamer of 3,450 tons net, 5,686 tons gross, powered by…

The American steamer Bessemer City wrecked at Clodgy in 1936, was launched in 1921 by the Chickasaw Shipbuilding Company of Alabama for the US Steel Production Company.

She was steel screw steamer of 3,450 tons net, 5,686 tons gross, powered by…

The American steamer Bessemer City wrecked at Clodgy in 1936, was launched in 1921 by the Chickasaw Shipbuilding Company of Alabama for the US Steel Production Company.

She was steel screw steamer of 3,450 tons net, 5,686 tons gross, powered by…

Aground and broken in two, one half driven ashore. All crew saved.

Ran aground, note the two halves, one driven ashore. All crew saved.

Ran aground, broken in two - all crew saved

Aground, all crew saved, note the two halves

Beryl. (sitting on arm of chair) with a group of male colleagues sitting around a small table. The man second from the right is Doug Stone.

Beryl with a group of friends on the beach. She is on the left, the lady in the centre has been identified as Cynthia Tripp and Brenda Ellery is lying down at front right.

Beryl (on the right) with four work colleagues at the telephone exchange

Beryl with a colleague

Beryl with a female colleague at her retirement party at Penzance Telephone Exchange.