Images: John and Jane Hicks: private collection; St Agnes pilot cutters; postcards of St Agnes and St Mary’s: Postcards of Cornwall; St Agnes; St Mary’s; shipwreck of the Weathersfield, c. 1890: Anne Sandford Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington; Duke’s Dock; Eric Hicks photographed by Justin McManus, Age, 3 June 2013.