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  • Collection: The Ronald Garlick Newport Collection of Gibson Wreck Photographs

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The Saluto (1867) was on passage from the Thames with sand ballast to Barbados but was caught in a succession of gales.

Account of Wreck from Cornishman Newspaper, December 9th 1911

"Watched by hundreds of spectators, the Norwegian Barque…

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The 1,597-ton steel ship, Hansy, launched at Dumbarton by Alexander Macmillan & Sons in 1885 as the Aberfoyle.

In the course of a somewhat chequered career, she had been picked up in Bass Strait, Tasmania in 1896 by a steamer which had found her…

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The 1,597-ton steel ship, Hansy, launched at Dumbarton by Alexander Macmillan & Sons in 1885 as the Aberfoyle.

In the course of a somewhat chequered career, she had been picked up in Bass Strait, Tasmania in 1896 by a steamer which had found her…

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The Pindos launched in June 1890 by Williamson of Workington as the Eusemere, was a steel, four-masted barque of 2,354 tons net and 2,512 gross, built for the firm of Fisher & Sprott of London.

In 1896 she was sold to B. Wencke & Company of…

RGN.122.tif
Ship shown from starboard quarter, semi-submerged.

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RGN.099.tif
Distant view of the ship, capsized and half-submerged in heavy surf with rocky coastline in background

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RGN.123.tif
View from ahead from beach, with fore topsail still set.

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RGN.100.tif
View of ship from cliff-top with figure being rescued by breeches buoy.

Print damaged at lower left corner.

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RGN.101.tif
Man being rescued with a breeches buoy, from close-by position on cliff-top; bow of ship in background.

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RGN.101b.tif
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…

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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…

RGN.129.tif
Print; missing lower left corner, making verso caption illegible

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