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- Collection: The Ronald Garlick Newport Collection of Gibson Wreck Photographs
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Steel 4-masted barque Port Jackson
Faint pencil inscription verso 'with fond love to dear Uncle & Auntie from Glynne'.
Albumin print
Albumin print
Wooden sailing ship Minnehaha on Peninnis Head, Jan. 1874
The Minnehaha of Liverpool wrecked at Peninnis Head, between the point and Pulpit Rock on January 18th 1874.
This was the wooden, 845-ton vessel, was carrying a cargo of guano. Master Jones had reached Falmouth on January 16th 1874 from Peru. It…
This was the wooden, 845-ton vessel, was carrying a cargo of guano. Master Jones had reached Falmouth on January 16th 1874 from Peru. It…
Russian steamer Aksai wrecked on White Island, Scilly, 1875
The Russian stemaer, Aksai, was lost around White Island on November 2nd 1875. She was on passage from Cardiff to Odessa with coal. Fog blurred the outline of the Scillies, with Captain Boltine taking her along the north side of St Martins, only to…
Celebrated Scilly pilot cutter Queen, Scilly, c. 1880
Albumen print
Steamer Ransome sunk near Penzance pier, 1885
Albumen print.
Inscr. on mount, 'S/s "Ransome" - 1885- sunk at Penzance'.
Inscr. on mount, 'S/s "Ransome" - 1885- sunk at Penzance'.
Surviving bullocks ashore from Castleford, 1887
Albumen print, mounted on card.
Ink inscr. on front of mount, 'Strangers in a strange land - ex s/s Castleford 1887'
Ink inscr. on front of mount, 'Strangers in a strange land - ex s/s Castleford 1887'
Lifeboat from German liner Schiller, 1875
The Schiller, was a passenger steamer of 3,421 tons gross which sank on the May 7th 1875.The Schiller had left New York for Habsburg via Plymouth on April 27th 1875, carrying 250 bags of Australian and New Zealand mail, a valuable general cargo, and…
Steamer Earl of Lonsdale, St. Agnes, 8 June 1885
The Earl of Lonsdale, a steamer, was carrying beans and cotton seed from Alexandria to Portishead. . Owned by Thomas G. Dunford of Newcastle. The vessel was 1,543 tons gross and was built in North Shields, North Tyneside in 1872
The Earl of…
The Earl of…
Liverpool iron barque River Lune wrecked near Annet, 1879
"On July 27th 1879, the 1,172 ton grow iron barque River Lune of Liverpool, in ballast from Lorient to Ardrossen in Scotland. The vessel was built in 1868, owned by John Hargrove of Chapel Street, Liverpool.
The barque was then to run ashore on…
The barque was then to run ashore on…
Gem, Liverpool Paddle Steamer, Wrecked November 21st 1881.
Gem, was a double ended paddle steamer of Liverpool. The small ship was 400 tons gross and was owned by John Lander of Birkenhead.
Gem was on passage from Holyhead for the Brass River, Niger, Africa. She contained 37 tons of coal as ballast. Her…
Gem was on passage from Holyhead for the Brass River, Niger, Africa. She contained 37 tons of coal as ballast. Her…
Liner Patroclus aground at Portland, 1907
V. inscription: Wreck of (?) 'Patroclus' at Portland successfully salved. 13/21/9/07.
(Ref: DSA ii, 544)
(Ref: DSA ii, 544)
Petrellen, Barque Vessel, Mount's Bay, 31 Jan. 1885.
The Petrellen was a barque style sailing vessel of 335-tons.
On its homeward bound journey to Porsground, Norway, the vessel was driven on to the sand flats at Longrock. None of the crew was drowned. She had put into Mount's Bay for her chief…
On its homeward bound journey to Porsground, Norway, the vessel was driven on to the sand flats at Longrock. None of the crew was drowned. She had put into Mount's Bay for her chief…
Malta, wrecked at Botallack, October 14th 1889
On October 15th 1889, the miners of St Just awoke to find the Cunarder Malta on the rocks, half a mile east of Cape Cornwall, beneath the Wheal Castle Mine.
The 2,244-ton Malta had been launched in 1865 by G. & J. Thompson of Glasgow for the…
The 2,244-ton Malta had been launched in 1865 by G. & J. Thompson of Glasgow for the…
Steamer Scheldt, Pendeen, 1890
DSA ii, 627
Earl of Arran, wrecked on Scilly, 1872.
The Auxiliary packet Earl of Arran ran ashore on Irishman's ledge on the July 16 1872. Built in Paisley in 1860 for the Ardrossen to Arran passenger run, the Earl of Arran served in the Clyde from 1860 until 1868, when she worked excursions between…
Four-masted steel ship Bay of Panama, 1891
Albumin print
Full-rigged ship Horsa, 1893
The Horsa of Liverpool sunk twenty-one miles south-west of the Bishop Rock on Tuesday 4 April 1893. It was the rocks in Bread and Cheese One, St. Martins which tore the holes in her plating.
Owned by Star Navigation Company of Liverpool, the…
Owned by Star Navigation Company of Liverpool, the…
Maipu, Hell Bay, Isles of Scilly, 1879
The Liverpool barque, Maipu, was the largest sailing sailing shipped (being 594 tons gross) wrecked in Hell Bay. The Maipu was bound from Inquique, Chile, to Hamburg with a valuable cargo of saltpetre, she went ashore only a few hours prior to River…
Bessie, Liverpool Steam Collier, wrecked at Carbis Bay, Novemebr 18th 1893.
Bessie was on passage from Cardiff to Portland with a cargo of coal, when it became caught in a gale on the night of 18 November 1893. Bessie hit the western side of the Hayle Estuary and fortunately floated off and was carried by the wind and tide…
