Shipwreck Photographs The Isles of Scilly St Mary's lifeboat...

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Shipwreck Photographs The Isles of Scilly St Mary's lifeboat RNLI 'Elsie' standing by the Lowestoft steam trawler 'Lord Haldane' on 20th March 1929, after going ashore near the Steval, Garrison shore, St. Mary's, printed annotation pasted to verso with the stamp of F.E. Gibson, with one other Gibson showing (presumably) the Lord Haldane in a state of decomposition, tissue guard and stamp to verso; The 'RMS. Scillonian', ashore on Newford Island, 1942, printed annotations and F.E. Gibson stamp to verso; the American oil tanker 'Gulflight', torpedoed off Bishop Rock in May 1915. Her captain died of heart failure on the bridge and three crew actually jumped overboard and drowned when she was hit; The 'ss.Longships', aground at the Sevenstones, 1939, F.E. Gibson stamp to verso; Red Star liner 'Gothland', struck and remained fast on Crim Rocks, June 23rd 1916, printed annotations and F.E. Gibson stamp to verso; The French crabber 'Pasteur', stranded on Hanjague, 12th September 1938, F.E. Gibson stamp to verso; A photograph of two members of the 'Hollandia' diving team on deck, 1971/2, with a close up of the artefact salvaged; An F.E. Gibson postcard showing the Boulogne steam-trawler 'Magdeleine', wrecked on Bartholomew Ledge, 3rd June 1906; A Gibson produced image for the funeral of deceased members of the 'ss.Schiller', gibson stamp to verso with other related printed works; The wooden ketch 'Charles Francis', stranded on Garrison shore near Newman, 23rd February 1898, Gibson stamp to verso. - Collaged images might not be to the correct scale