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- Collection: The Ronald Garlick Newport Collection of Gibson Wreck Photographs
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S.S. Plympton, Isles of Scilly, 1909
The Plympton of London, a Commercial Steamship Company Vessel went ashore in the thick fog on August 14th while carrying maize in bags from Villa Constitution to Dublin, via Falmouth.
Built for Furness, Withy & Company of West Hartlepool in 1893,…
Built for Furness, Withy & Company of West Hartlepool in 1893,…
S.S. Plympton, Scilly, 1909.
The Plympton of London, a Commercial Steamship Company Vessel went ashore in the thick fog on August 14th while carrying maize in bags from Villa Constitution to Dublin, via Falmouth.
Built for Furness, Withy & Company of West Hartlepool in 1893,…
Built for Furness, Withy & Company of West Hartlepool in 1893,…
S.S. Setiembre, Scilly, 1911
The Spanish steamer Setiembre was a a 2,171 ton net vessel, registered at Bilbao. Before it wrecked, the vessel was bound from Norman to Maryport with iron-ore on March 26th 1911. The vessel had lost her rudder and badly holed in her hull when she…
S.S. South America ashore at Merthen Point, March 12th 1912.
The South America was a steel screw steamer of 4,197 tons gross. She was owned by Nitrate Producers Company of London and had sailed from Hamburg bound for Cardiff in water ballast, under charter to the Hamburg Amerika Line.
The weather was poor…
The weather was poor…
S.S. Western Front, Lands End, 1921.
Annotation l. left, "Vaughan Paul, Penzance"
S.S.Benwick of Newcastle, wrecked at Porthcurno, 1903
Albumen print, top corners damaged
Salvaged after section of Suevic at Southampton, 1907
The Suevic was homeward bound from Australia, carried a crew of 141, plus 382 passengers, and one stowaway; her cargo was general, and included frozen meats, butter, and copper bars.
She was on her way to Liverpool via Plymouth when an error of…
She was on her way to Liverpool via Plymouth when an error of…
Schooner St.Anne, Porthleven, 1931.
View from ahead from beach, with fore topsail still set.
Seine wrecked at Perranporth, December 27th 1900
The largest and best-known sailing-ship wreck in Perran Bay was the French nitrate clipper Seine, an elegant three masted steel barque of 2,630 tons gross launched in 1889 by La Porte of Rouen for the celebrated fleet of A.D Bordes et Fils of…
