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

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…

RGN.101c.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…

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

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RGN.130.tif
Print; badly damaged corners. Inscription: "After the storm - all that was left Trevean/Perranuthnoe"

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RGN.124.tif
Print from a full plate; slight damage and shading to corners

RGN.043a.tif
The S.S Brinkburn was a four year old, 3,229 tons gross steamer which sunk on December 15th 1898.

The steamer was bound from Galveston, Texas, to Le Havre with 8,895 bales of cotton and 6,720 bags of cotton seed. She struck the Maiden Bower and…

RGN.121a.tif
Set-piece view from foreshore, with figures in f'ground and tug in background far right during salvage operation. Some creases and corner blemishes
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