Shipwreck Photographs The Lizard, Porthoustock, Coverack &c....

Hammer

£30

Shipwreck Photographs The Lizard, Porthoustock, Coverack &c. &c. Five masted German owned schooner 'Adolf Vinnen', decks awash and the last but one member of the crew being brought ashore by breeches buoy between Hot Point and Bass Point, The Lizard, 9th February 1923, annotations to verso, tissue guard, with negative and two other viewpoints, one being a postcard; Two views of the 'ss. Koch' at Dolor Point, Coverack, 7.3.1904, the larger with a Gibson of The Scilly Isles stamp to verso, and the other backed onto card; Two views of the 'Gal Florial' stranded (but eventually saved) at Lowlands Point near Coverack, (c.1950); Postcard of the 'Andola', near Porthoustock, 1895, annotations pasted to verso with the stamp of F. E. Gibson of the Scilly Islands, with a photograph showing the mast band, wooden pulley sheave, and brass water pump fitting, found on the wreck between 1964 and 1966; Four views of the 'ss. Archangelos' off Coverack, April 22nd 1929, eventually saved, three with Gibson stamp to versos; Three views of the 'Bardic', off the Lizard, 27.12.1924, two with Gibson stamp to versos; Two later prints of the 'Captitaine Remy' off Polkerris; Later print of the 'Carl Hirchenburg', near Coverack; Seven later prints and a negative of the barque 'Cromdale', off Hot Point, Lizard.