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Faint pencil inscription verso 'with fond love to dear Uncle & Auntie from Glynne'.
Albumin print

The Avebury was a Sunderland Steamer that was heading between Lisbon and Cardiff with a cargo of Iron ore and esparto grass (used for crafting).The Avebury missed Land's End completely in fog and steamed on the rocks less than a quarter of a mile…

Verso inscription: 1917-18 WWI
Hamburg Amerika Linnie (sic)
German Ships Interned in N York
Photo by Mr Stables (illeg.)

V. inscription: Wreck of (?) 'Patroclus' at Portland successfully salved. 13/21/9/07.
(Ref: DSA ii, 544)

Picture shows the traditional Cornish "Inkwell Pots" unique to the county.
With a hand written message in ink to the reverse of the postcard to a recipient in Ashford, Middlesex

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The Petrellen was a barque style sailing vessel of 335-tons.

On its homeward bound journey to Porsground, Norway, the vessel was driven on to the sand flats at Longrock. None of the crew was drowned. She had put into Mount's Bay for her chief…

On October 15th 1889, the miners of St Just awoke to find the Cunarder Malta on the rocks, half a mile east of Cape Cornwall, beneath the Wheal Castle Mine.

The 2,244-ton Malta had been launched in 1865 by G. & J. Thompson of Glasgow for the…

DSA ii, 627

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…