Shipwreck Photographs Porthleven, Loe Bar, Praa Sands, Perra...

Hammer

£500

Shipwreck Photographs Porthleven, Loe Bar, Praa Sands, Perranuthnoe, Prussia Cove HMS. Anson. 32-ponder iron cannon with cannon balls concreted to the barrel, raised by the Western Marine Salvage Company, circa 1925, from the wreck site of HMS. Anson, now mounted on Porthleven harbour quay. The photograph shows Captain Anderson holding the chain, with his wife and children, divers, and company employees. Gibson stamp to verso; With another showing raising of the cannon, taken from the sea with the Bar in the background; A 23cm x 29cm photograph of the Tripolitania on Loe Bar, Gibson stamp to verso; With an assortment of modern photos taken around Loe Bar and Porthleven associated with the Anson; A postcard and photograph with two different views of the 'ss.Brankelow', Loe Bar, 1890, Gibson stamps to versos; Three views of the 'ss.Tripolitania', two of which showing diggers trying to 'free' the beached ship, Boxing Day 1912; The Austrian barque 'Cviet', beached on Porthleven beach, 26th January 1884, two views showing before and after the salvage;, used in the new edition of 'Diver Guide- South Cornwall; The 'M.V. Frisco', wrecked at Lizard Rocks, but saved and later towed to Porthleven Harbour, January 1955; Five later prints of the 'HMS. Warspite', off Prussia Cove, 23rd April 1947; Four views of the wooden barque 'Noisel', beached on Praa Sands, 1905, one with Gibson & Son stamped to verso, with the others being F.E. Gibson; A postcard and photograph of the same view of the 'Jannakis', beached on Praa Sands, 1921, F.E. Gibson stamp to versos; Two views of the 'Ornais II', beached on Perranuthnoe, one showing St. Mixhael's Mount in the background, F.E. Gibson stmp to versos. (Q) - Collaged images might not be to the correct scale