A glimmering light spotted through the murk and a ship is saved, but the Admiral, his flagship and 1400 men will not survive the night....
It’s Saturday evening, and the departure platform at Penzance is packed with 60 people.
The second worst accident in the history of mining in Cornwall happened at Levant Mine on 20th October 1919. Thirty one men were killed and 19 were recorded as injured when the Levant man engine rod crashed down the shaft carrying with it its human cargo of miners coming up to grass from the morning core.
Cornishman, Thursday, 21st October. Newlyn, Tuesday.
With sunlight streaming across the Bay, the Rosebud set sail this morning from Newlyn.
It used to take 32 men to unload a collier at Penzance, but Taylors now have a steam crane............
St Ives Young Conservatives think they have a cunning plan to thwart the Socialist governments attemps to speed up progress.....
Vessel on fire reported off St Ives. Boats manned for rescue attempt…….
Coastguard Charlie May can hardly believe his eyes. There before him is a brilliantly lit leviathon of a ship and she's heading for the Manacles..............
Penzance Free Library, a beacon of light illuminating the path to the future......