Family pictures in wreck debris

Do you recognise these people? Some of the pictures recovered from the beach at Lyme Bay At-a-glance

Among the items recovered from the wreck of the MSC Napoli in Devon are these photographs.

Some of them are showing signs of the obvious wear and tear they have endured in the past few days.

For the looters who descended on Lyme Bay to ransack containers of car parts, they were of no value and were left among the debris.

But for the owners no amount of insurance can replace photographs of loved ones.

Sally Baum, who found the pictures, said she was "disgusted" by the looting.

Businesswoman Mrs Baum, 52, from Leicester, had been visiting her sister in Branscombe for the weekend when she spotted the pictures.

Some containers have been torched

"We were walking along the cliff-top and went to have a nose on the beach like everyone else.

"When I saw the pictures I knew immediately that they must be someone's treasured possessions.

"It would be dreadful to lose that sort of thing.

"I would love to them returned because they must mean a lot to someone."

She said the action of looters had been "dreadful".

"The way they have smashed open containers of personal possessions, it made me ashamed to be British.

"It is awful to treat people's possessions like that."

If you recognise the people in these pictures, please email BBC News Online in Plymouth, [e-mail] and we will try and return them to the owners.

The MSC Napoli was beached at Lyme Bay after a hole appeared in the hull on 18 January.

Twenty-six crew were rescued from the ship in the English Channel as it travelled from Antwerp to South Africa via Portugal.