Salvagers at Porthleven lift a three-ton gun barrel cannon from sands at Loe Bar, site of the wreck of the forty-four-gun frigate HMS Anson. The cannon now stands on a wooden mount in Porthleven harbour. The ship was wrecked in stormy seas on 29 December 1807 and much of its booty has been salvaged over the years. HMS Anson launched from Plymouth on 4 September 1781 as a sixty-four-gun third-rate frigate, a full rigged ship and fought in the Battle of Saintes off Dominica in 1782.