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Taken at dawn after recent storms that revealed the wreck of the "Jeune Hortense", a French brigantine that was swept on to the beach when she came in...
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Taken at dawn after recent storms that revealed the wreck of the "Jeune Hortense", a French brigantine that was swept on to the beach when she came into Mount's Bay, near Penzance, Cornwall, UK, to land the body of a Fowey man who had died in France.
The Penzance lifeboat was pulled on to the beach by a horse-drawn carriage and was rowed out to the grounded brigantine. It was not possible to re-float the vessel and it was eventually broken up for firewood.
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The Penzance lifeboat was pulled on to the beach by a horse-drawn carriage and was rowed out to the grounded brigantine. It was not possible to re-float the vessel and it was eventually broken up for firewood.
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