699 20 19175 https://photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/The_Ronald_Garlick_Newport_Collection_of_Gibson_Wreck_Photographs/16230/RGN.088.tif ceaf822bd08e42df29324cfd5c0b7165 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Ronald Garlick Newport Collection of Gibson Wreck Photographs Description An account of the resource A collection of mostly shipwreck photographs mostly by Gibson of Penzance. References: CSI: Richard Larn & Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks, Vol 1: The South Coast, 1969 DSA: Charles Hocking, Dictionary of Disasters at Sea During the Age of Steam 1824-1962, 1969 2 volumes PSD: David L Williams, A Dictionary of Passenger Ship Disasters, 2009 WR: Cyrill Noall & Graham Farr, Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast, 3 vols, 1964-5 Larn: Richard Larn Cornish Shipwrecks: the Isles of Scilly Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 11" x 8" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource S.S Minnehaha, Isles of Scilly, 1910 Subject The topic of the resource Shipwreck Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gibson Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1910-05-11 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Morrab library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Print Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RGN.088 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Bryher, Isles of Scilly. Description An account of the resource This photo shows the Minnehaha with tug and boats attending prior to salvage, 11th May 1910. The S.S Minnehaha was a 13,443 tons gross Atlantic Transport Company steam liner that went aground on the eastern side of Scilly Rock at 12:50 on April 18th 1910. The Minnehaha was built and registered in Belfast by Harland & Wolf I 1900. On passage from New York to Tilbury with 171 crew, 66 first class passengers, a general cargo, and 243 steers. Captain Sydney Leyland, the company's senior master mariner, had been unable to take an observation since the 14th of the month, and by noon on the 17th estimated that he was 170 miles from the Bishop Rock and would pass at least six miles south of the lighthouse without any further changes of course. Fog dictated a reduction in speed to six knots during the evening, and although a sounding taken at midnight showed forty-seven fathoms, breakers were seen ahead only minutes later, and with scarcely more than a slight bump, the liner slid gently ashore. Distress-guns fired by the Bishop Light-keepers brought out the St. Marys lifeboat, but by the time it arrived at the wreck all the passengers had been landed by pilot-gigs from Bryher. The lifeboat stood by until 3pm, when Cape Leyland ordered everyone except his officers and a few members of the crew to board a waiting tug. The Falmouth Tugs, Victor and Dragon, summoned by urgent radio signals, arrived in time to see the crew start heaving cargo out of Nos 2 and 3 holds to lighten the ship, and throwing it into the sea. Brand new motor cars were winched outboard and dropped, followed by grand pianos, crated machinery of every description, sewing machines, carpets, and other valuable items by the ton. The frightened steers joined the rest of the cargo in the sea, and assisted by the gigs whose roped the cattle alongside by their horns. At least 200 animals reached Bryher safely. A Lowestoft trawler came into St. Marys Roads with a crated motor-car on deck, having recovered it floating near the Wolf Rock. When asked what should be done with it, the Receiver of Wreck took the fishermen to the end of Hugh Town jetty and pointed out across the sound where dozens of similar crates could be seen bobbing about in the sea. By April 20th, a fleet of tugs and salvage vessels were in attendance, and the serious business of getting the ship afloat again began. The first move on the part of the Liverpool Salvage Company and the Swedish firm which was assisting them, was to build a false floor of timber in each hold at low water, caulking each seam so as to make it watertight. Other false decks were built in succession at each hatch level, so thar eventually six platforms were in positon in each hold. The air compressors were then started but for days there was little apparent result as the increasing pressure under the floors slowly pushed back the sea.  On May 11th, the Minnehaha refloated and came down so fast that she nearly ran down the waiting tugs whose assistance was not needed. Later escorted by the tugs Dragon, Tritton, and Victor, plus the salvage vessels Ranger, Belos, Linnet, and Herakles, the liner maintained a steady ten knots all the way to Falmout, where she was anchored in St. Just Pool and the remaiing cargo discharged by local labour when the London stevedores specially brought to Cornwall went on strike.  Description of wreck used from Richard Larn, Cornish Shipwrecks: The Isles of Scilly (Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1971), p. 127-131. 1891-1910 Seafaring and shipping Wrecks https://photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/The_Ronald_Garlick_Newport_Collection_of_Gibson_Wreck_Photographs/16227/RGN.087.tif 04cbfc8956cfb06d25062dcdacc32880 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Ronald Garlick Newport Collection of Gibson Wreck Photographs Description An account of the resource A collection of mostly shipwreck photographs mostly by Gibson of Penzance. References: CSI: Richard Larn & Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks, Vol 1: The South Coast, 1969 DSA: Charles Hocking, Dictionary of Disasters at Sea During the Age of Steam 1824-1962, 1969 2 volumes PSD: David L Williams, A Dictionary of Passenger Ship Disasters, 2009 WR: Cyrill Noall & Graham Farr, Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast, 3 vols, 1964-5 Larn: Richard Larn Cornish Shipwrecks: the Isles of Scilly Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 11" x 8" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource S.S Minnehaha, Isles of Scilly, 1910. Subject The topic of the resource Shipwreck Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gibson Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1910-04-18 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Morrab library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Print Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RGN.087 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Bryher, Isles of Scilly Description An account of the resource The S.S Minnehaha was a 13,443 tons gross Atlantic Transport Company steam liner that went aground on the eastern side of Scilly Rock at 12:50 on April 18th 1910. The Minnehaha was built and registered in Belfast by Harland & Wolf I 1900. On passage from New York to Tilbury with 171 crew, 66 first class passengers, a general cargo, and 243 steers. Captain Sydney Leyland, the company's senior master mariner, had been unable to take an observation since the 14th of the month, and by noon on the 17th estimated that he was 170 miles from the Bishop Rock and would pass at least six miles south of the lighthouse without any further changes of course. Fog dictated a reduction in speed to six knots during the evening, and although a sounding taken at midnight showed forty-seven fathoms, breakers were seen ahead only minutes later, and with scarcely more than a slight bump, the liner slid gently ashore. Distress-guns fired by the Bishop Light-keepers brought out the St. Marys lifeboat, but by the time it arrived at the wreck all the passengers had been landed by pilot-gigs from Bryher. The lifeboat stood by until 3pm, when Cape Leyland ordered everyone except his officers and a few members of the crew to board a waiting tug. The Falmouth Tugs, Victor and Dragon, summoned by urgent radio signals, arrived in time to see the crew start heaving cargo out of Nos 2 and 3 holds to lighten the ship, and throwing it into the sea. Brand new motor cars were winched outboard and dropped, followed by grand pianos, crated machinery of every description, sewing machines, carpets, and other valuable items by the ton. The frightened steers joined the rest of the cargo in the sea, and assisted by the gigs whose roped the cattle alongside by their horns. At least 200 animals reached Bryher safely. A Lowestoft trawler came into St. Marys Roads with a crated motor-car on deck, having recovered it floating near the Wolf Rock. When asked what should be done with it, the Receiver of Wreck took the fishermen to the end of Hugh Town jetty and pointed out across the sound where dozens of similar crates could be seen bobbing about in the sea. By April 20th, a fleet of tugs and salvage vessels were in attendance, and the serious business of getting the ship afloat again began. The first move on the part of the Liverpool Salvage Company and the Swedish firm which was assisting them, was to build a false floor of timber in each hold at low water, caulking each seam so as to make it watertight. Other false decks were built in succession at each hatch level, so thar eventually six platforms were in positon in each hold. The air compressors were then started but for days there was little apparent result as the increasing pressure under the floors slowly pushed back the sea.  On May 11th, the Minnehaha refloated and came down so fast that she nearly ran down the waiting tugs whose assistance was not needed. Later escorted by the tugs Dragon, Tritton, and Victor, plus the salvage vessels Ranger, Belos, Linnet, and Herakles, the liner maintained a steady ten knots all the way to Falmout, where she was anchored in St. Just Pool and the remaiing cargo discharged by local labour when the London stevedores specially brought to Cornwall went on strike.  Description of wreck used from Richard Larn, Cornish Shipwrecks: The Isles of Scilly (Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1971), p. 127-131. 1891-1910 Seafaring and shipping Wrecks https://photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/The_Ronald_Garlick_Newport_Collection_of_Gibson_Wreck_Photographs/16104/RGN.032.tif 2c9cd723e45821ee7253b9b18f5556d5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Ronald Garlick Newport Collection of Gibson Wreck Photographs Description An account of the resource A collection of mostly shipwreck photographs mostly by Gibson of Penzance. References: CSI: Richard Larn & Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks, Vol 1: The South Coast, 1969 DSA: Charles Hocking, Dictionary of Disasters at Sea During the Age of Steam 1824-1962, 1969 2 volumes PSD: David L Williams, A Dictionary of Passenger Ship Disasters, 2009 WR: Cyrill Noall & Graham Farr, Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast, 3 vols, 1964-5 Larn: Richard Larn Cornish Shipwrecks: the Isles of Scilly Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 9" x 11" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource S.S Serica wrecked off St. Mary's, 1893 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1893-11-23 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Morrab library Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RGN.032 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant St. Marys, Isles of Scilly Description An account of the resource The Serica, a fine steel screw, schooner-rigged steamer of 1,736 tons register. Her last voyage began at Cardiff on November 16th 1893, when she sailed for Port Said with a crew of twenty-five and a cargo of coal. Bad weather was encountered the following day when off Hartland Point, and by dawn on the 18th the Serica was in trouble when the storm ripped the tarpaulin covers from off Nos 3 and 4 holds, flooded the main cabin and swept away everything that was moveable abaft the bridge. Her captain, Sydney Smith, had a remarkable escape in that he was washed clean overboard twice, and twice was flung back aboard by the sea. The Serica eventually reached Scilly on the 19th in a very distressed condition with pumps choked, serious damage on deck, and a heavy list. A local Receiver of the Wreck stated that "the only wonder is that the vessel kept afloat." On November 24th, the Serica left St. Marys at low water to continue her voyage, but struck a rock and had to be run ashore 150 yards north-north west of Woolpack Beacon. She was abandoned almost immediately and only minor salvage was ever carried out on the wreck, all work ceasing on January 3rd 1894. The rock the Serica struck was in fact, marked at lying in eight fathoms but was later found to be in less than twenty-four feet. It is doubtful if it was any consolation to her owners, but tat rock was given the name of the ship and today is marked on all charts as the Serica Rock. Description taken from Richard Larn, Cornish Shipwrecks: Isles of Scilly (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p. 106. 1891-1900 Seafaring and shipping Wrecks https://photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/The_Ronald_Garlick_Newport_Collection_of_Gibson_Wreck_Photographs/16372/RGN.101c.tif c9be371474f2329f824c9b739b3dff00 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Ronald Garlick Newport Collection of Gibson Wreck Photographs Description An account of the resource A collection of mostly shipwreck photographs mostly by Gibson of Penzance. References: CSI: Richard Larn & Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks, Vol 1: The South Coast, 1969 DSA: Charles Hocking, Dictionary of Disasters at Sea During the Age of Steam 1824-1962, 1969 2 volumes PSD: David L Williams, A Dictionary of Passenger Ship Disasters, 2009 WR: Cyrill Noall & Graham Farr, Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast, 3 vols, 1964-5 Larn: Richard Larn Cornish Shipwrecks: the Isles of Scilly Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 8" x 11" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource S.S South America ashore at Merthen Point, 1912. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gibson Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1912-03-13 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Morrab library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Print Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RGN.101c Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Merthen point Subject The topic of the resource Shipwreck Wreck Description An account of the resource 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 until March 12th 1912, when it cleared and Captain Bowling was able to morse 'All's well' to the signal station on the Lizard. But less than half an hour later the South America was steaming through thick banks of drizzle and frequent squalls of torrential rain and having to steer a zigzag course across Mount's Bay to avoid a Newlyn pilchard fleet, strung out haphazardly from Mousehole island to Runnelstone. At Midnight, Captain Bowling altered course northward to take the South America round Land's End. She ploughed on through the murk with the lookouts still keeping a wary eye open for the fishing boats and had just avoided a lugger lying at her nets when second officer Read saw the dark shape of land right ahead. The helm was swung hard over, but even as the steamer's 389 horse power engine was put violently into reverse there was a rumbling screech and she shuddered over the big round boulders of St. Loy Bay. By the time it rattled down on St. Loy bay, the steamer had been identified as the South America from London. A rocket line was fired over her, but as no one was left aboard to secure it. Captain Alfred Bowling and Chief officer Thom, and second officer Harold Read, a Penzance man, swam out, climbed up a rope over the ship's side and set up the lines to work the breeches-buoy. As dawn lightened the sky above Carn Boscawen, the ship's instruments and the crew's baggage were landed and the South America was seen to be lying broadside-on near Merton Point, at the western end of St. Loy. She looked intact, but when the tide ebbed her bottom plates were seen to be badly damaged. The salvage steamer Lady of the Isles arrived, but even then it was obvious reflecting the stranded steamer would be a very difficult operation. In the days after the wreck, prospects of salvage grew dimmer with every tide, and a gale which blew up a week later caused more serious damage. Finally, the underwriters disposed of her to the Western Marine Salvage Company of Penzance, who began to break her up. At a Board of Trade Enquiry in May 1912, Captain Bowling and his officers levelled charged of looting at the people of St. Loy, as a number of things, including the Chief Officer Thom's Boer war medals and a large manila hawser (ship rope) had mysteriously disappeared. The medals were returned but the hawser was not, and there was talk that someone had been wrecking. These accusations were bitterly resented by the local people, many of whom had given very help and opened their homes to the shipwrecked crew. After two days, the findings of the court were announced. Captain Bowling was found guilty of not having navigated the South America with due care and in a proper and seamanlike manner; he had failed to take soundings after the shore lights were obscured and should not have altered course until he was certain of the steamer's position. In view of his previous unblemished record, he did not lose his certificate but received a severe warning. After the proceedings he withdrew his allegations about the looting of the South America. During the spring and summer of 1912, the local people became familiar with the great hulk of the South American and the breaking gangs who swarmed over her, and many could remember similar scenes twenty years before, when the French pit wood steamer Saintonge was wrecked in the bay. Autumn came and the South America was still slowly diminishing as the salvage men cut deeper into her steel hull. October was an even foggier month than usual that year, and it was during the dark hours of the 14th that the extraordinary wrecked occurred in St. Loy, exactly seven months after the first one. At half-past three in the morning, John Richards was roused from his bed for the second time that year by unusual noise in the bay. He thought at first that the salvage men must have raised steam on the South America, or were engaged on som particularly noisy job, but as it seemed unlikely at that hour he took the lantern he had used to guide in the South America's crew and made his way down to the shore. Thick fog swirled over the sea and it was several minutes before he saw a small steamer right against the big hulk's weather side. Within an hour, the Lady of the Isles had arrived, towing the Newlyn Lifeboat, while the rocket cart from Mousehole had joined the inhabitants of St. Loy on the same rocks from which they had fired the line over the South America. The lifeboatmen and coastguards soon discovered that the stranded steamer was the 599- ton steel screw, schooner-rigged Abertay. Owned by Boise et Chabois of Lorient and bound for Barry with a cargo of pit wood. Description taken from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coasts (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.203-208. 1911-1930 Seafaring and shipping Wrecks https://photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/The_Ronald_Garlick_Newport_Collection_of_Gibson_Wreck_Photographs/16402/RGN.121a.tif 29a45f34187b6d694dacee21409607c6 https://photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/The_Ronald_Garlick_Newport_Collection_of_Gibson_Wreck_Photographs/16402/MORRAB-RGN.121aEd.tif d20d590112d28d46edfed6e4d3a12b4f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Ronald Garlick Newport Collection of Gibson Wreck Photographs Description An account of the resource A collection of mostly shipwreck photographs mostly by Gibson of Penzance. References: CSI: Richard Larn & Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks, Vol 1: The South Coast, 1969 DSA: Charles Hocking, Dictionary of Disasters at Sea During the Age of Steam 1824-1962, 1969 2 volumes PSD: David L Williams, A Dictionary of Passenger Ship Disasters, 2009 WR: Cyrill Noall & Graham Farr, Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast, 3 vols, 1964-5 Larn: Richard Larn Cornish Shipwrecks: the Isles of Scilly Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 10" x 12" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource S.S. Archangelos, Coverack, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource S.S. Archangelos, stranded in fog on Chynalls Point, Coverack 17 April 1929 while on passage from Dunkird to Cardiff, but refloated two days later. Ref: WR iii, 88-9. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gibson Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1929-04-18 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Morrab library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Print Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RGN.121a Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Coverack Description An account of the resource Set-piece view from foreshore, with figures in f'ground and tug in background far right during salvage operation. Some creases and corner blemishes 1911-1930 Seafaring and shipping Wrecks https://photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/The_Ronald_Garlick_Newport_Collection_of_Gibson_Wreck_Photographs/16306/RGN.119.tif 3e9cf4f3f7fca8c39845e1bbd4f8f5e6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Ronald Garlick Newport Collection of Gibson Wreck Photographs Description An account of the resource A collection of mostly shipwreck photographs mostly by Gibson of Penzance. References: CSI: Richard Larn & Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks, Vol 1: The South Coast, 1969 DSA: Charles Hocking, Dictionary of Disasters at Sea During the Age of Steam 1824-1962, 1969 2 volumes PSD: David L Williams, A Dictionary of Passenger Ship Disasters, 2009 WR: Cyrill Noall & Graham Farr, Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast, 3 vols, 1964-5 Larn: Richard Larn Cornish Shipwrecks: the Isles of Scilly Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 12" x 9" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource S.S. Ausgir, Mousehole, 1920 Subject The topic of the resource S.S. Ausgir stranded near Mousehole, 1 Dec 1920. Crew of 45 saved. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gibson Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1920-12-01 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Morrab library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Print Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RGN.119 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Mousehole Wrecks https://photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/The_Ronald_Garlick_Newport_Collection_of_Gibson_Wreck_Photographs/16340/RGN.094.tif df81dc00acc65c59437eb12dad73a92f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Ronald Garlick Newport Collection of Gibson Wreck Photographs Description An account of the resource A collection of mostly shipwreck photographs mostly by Gibson of Penzance. References: CSI: Richard Larn & Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks, Vol 1: The South Coast, 1969 DSA: Charles Hocking, Dictionary of Disasters at Sea During the Age of Steam 1824-1962, 1969 2 volumes PSD: David L Williams, A Dictionary of Passenger Ship Disasters, 2009 WR: Cyrill Noall & Graham Farr, Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast, 3 vols, 1964-5 Larn: Richard Larn Cornish Shipwrecks: the Isles of Scilly Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 8" x 11" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource S.S. Cragoswald, Mousehole, April 28 1911 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gibson Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1911-04-29 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Morrab library Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RGN.094 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Mousehole Subject The topic of the resource The Cragoswald of Newcastle was a 2,085-ton Steamer. She had sailed from Barry in the early house of April 28th 1911, bound for Venice with 4,800 tons of coal, but when twelve hours out her chief engineer was taken seriously ill and Captain Albert Crowthers altered course for Mount's Bay to land him. As the weather was foggy, the captain steered a careful course past the Runnelstone and was almost in the bay when he made a bad mistake. A large black and white check buoy was seen bobbing in the heavy seas and was taken to be that marking Mount Mopus Ledge, between St. Micheals Mount and Porthleven. They had been confused by the mist and the rain, and a few minutes later, as the Cragoswald passed carefully to port of the buoy, there came a tremendous crash and she shuddered to a stop. Though she was going very slowly, her bows were firmly impaled and for the next four days she hung precariously on the Low Lee while salvage craft, tugs, and divers fussed about her. Twice the salvors were driven off by rough seas, but on the morning of May 2nd the Cragoswald floated free and was towed to Penzance. Five days later, escorted by tugs, she left Mount's Bay under her own steam for the repair docks at Falmouth. After seven months she was ashore again, this time in Jury's Cap, Near Dungeness, during the south-west gale which wrecked the barque Saluto in Mount's Bay. The Cragoswald spent a week on the beach before being reflected and she lasted until April 18 1917, when a German U-Boat Torpedoed her 60 miles west by south of the Bishop Rock. Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South West (Newton Abbot: Charles & David, 1971), p.184-185. 1911-1930 Seafaring and shipping Wrecks https://photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/The_Ronald_Garlick_Newport_Collection_of_Gibson_Wreck_Photographs/16305/RGN.118.tif a0f451b8c0535c8f6969af8d85ac087f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Ronald Garlick Newport Collection of Gibson Wreck Photographs Description An account of the resource A collection of mostly shipwreck photographs mostly by Gibson of Penzance. References: CSI: Richard Larn & Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks, Vol 1: The South Coast, 1969 DSA: Charles Hocking, Dictionary of Disasters at Sea During the Age of Steam 1824-1962, 1969 2 volumes PSD: David L Williams, A Dictionary of Passenger Ship Disasters, 2009 WR: Cyrill Noall & Graham Farr, Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast, 3 vols, 1964-5 Larn: Richard Larn Cornish Shipwrecks: the Isles of Scilly Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 12" x 9" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource S.S. Datetree, wrecked on Brisons, 1914 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gibson Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1914-06-25 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Morrab library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Print Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RGN.118 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Brisons, Cape Cornwall. Description An account of the resource SS Datetree was a brand new British steam collier/cargo ship owned by the Tree Steamship Company. It was only three months old, having been built in early 1914 by the Antwerp Engineering Company. On June 25, 1914, while carrying a cargo of coal from Barry, Wales, to Brest, France, the vessel ran aground on the treacherous Brisons Rocks. Th ship broke its back and split in two, resulting in a total loss. The distinctive diamond shapes on the masts were part of the equipment for hauling coal, and were used on other collier ships. See also photograph M.382 Wrecks https://photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/The_Ronald_Garlick_Newport_Collection_of_Gibson_Wreck_Photographs/16362/RGN.121.tif b3e9c85a89939687105872ae2470956d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Ronald Garlick Newport Collection of Gibson Wreck Photographs Description An account of the resource A collection of mostly shipwreck photographs mostly by Gibson of Penzance. References: CSI: Richard Larn & Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks, Vol 1: The South Coast, 1969 DSA: Charles Hocking, Dictionary of Disasters at Sea During the Age of Steam 1824-1962, 1969 2 volumes PSD: David L Williams, A Dictionary of Passenger Ship Disasters, 2009 WR: Cyrill Noall & Graham Farr, Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast, 3 vols, 1964-5 Larn: Richard Larn Cornish Shipwrecks: the Isles of Scilly Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 8" x 6" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource S.S. Jannakis, Perranuthnoe, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource S.S. Jannakis stranded at Perranuthnoe 21 Dec 1921, but photographed after salvage at Penzance. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gibson Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1921-12-21 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Morrab library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Print Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RGN.121 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Perranuthnoe Wrecks https://photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/The_Ronald_Garlick_Newport_Collection_of_Gibson_Wreck_Photographs/16152/RGN.061.tif b235d2ca920c23baf45e113ca415b9da Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Ronald Garlick Newport Collection of Gibson Wreck Photographs Description An account of the resource A collection of mostly shipwreck photographs mostly by Gibson of Penzance. References: CSI: Richard Larn & Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks, Vol 1: The South Coast, 1969 DSA: Charles Hocking, Dictionary of Disasters at Sea During the Age of Steam 1824-1962, 1969 2 volumes PSD: David L Williams, A Dictionary of Passenger Ship Disasters, 2009 WR: Cyrill Noall & Graham Farr, Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast, 3 vols, 1964-5 Larn: Richard Larn Cornish Shipwrecks: the Isles of Scilly Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 10" x 8" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource S.S. Koch stranded at Coverack, crew and animals rescued by LSA. 1904 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gibson Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1904-03-12 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Morrab library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Print Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RGN.061 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Coverack Subject The topic of the resource S.S. Koch, stranded near Coverack on the Lizard; crew and animals saved by LSA, March 1904 Wrecks https://photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/Miscellaneous_Photos/15002/M.2079.tif a76c1f1499b050a4333dcf85b0b9a84e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Miscellaneous Photos Description An account of the resource Photographs which have come from multiple sources. They include a huge variety of photos of subjects which appear elsewhere. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource S.S. Lyonesse lying off Penzance quay. c.1900 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived St. Ives Museum Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Morrab Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c. 1900 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Morrab Library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Print Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context M.2079 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Penzance Cornwall https://photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/Miscellaneous_Photos/15001/M.2078.tif 5a90581c1ed9d723f443d2b521a30793 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Miscellaneous Photos Description An account of the resource Photographs which have come from multiple sources. They include a huge variety of photos of subjects which appear elsewhere. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource S.S. Lyonesse lying off Penzance quay. She had a regular run between Penzance and the Isles of Scilly. c. 1900 Subject The topic of the resource Miscellaneous Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived St. Ives Museum Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Morrab Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c. 1900 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Morrab Library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Print Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context M.2078 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Penzance Cornwall https://photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/The_Ronald_Garlick_Newport_Collection_of_Gibson_Wreck_Photographs/16221/RGN.085.tif faf6aab0abf29329efe8347a035672a4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Ronald Garlick Newport Collection of Gibson Wreck Photographs Description An account of the resource A collection of mostly shipwreck photographs mostly by Gibson of Penzance. References: CSI: Richard Larn & Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks, Vol 1: The South Coast, 1969 DSA: Charles Hocking, Dictionary of Disasters at Sea During the Age of Steam 1824-1962, 1969 2 volumes PSD: David L Williams, A Dictionary of Passenger Ship Disasters, 2009 WR: Cyrill Noall & Graham Farr, Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast, 3 vols, 1964-5 Larn: Richard Larn Cornish Shipwrecks: the Isles of Scilly Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 8" x 5" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource S.S. Plympton, Isles of Scilly, 1909 Subject The topic of the resource S.S. Plympton, view from wreck of gig Dolly Varden and other local boats alongside engaged in rescue and salvage. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gibson Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1909-08-14 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Morrab library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Print Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RGN.085 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant St. Agnes, Isles of Scilly Description An account of the resource 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, the Plympton was 314ft in length and 2, 869 tons gross was declared a total loss, her value for insurance purposes being set at 16,000 with her cargo at an additional £25,000. Her arrival was not exactly unannounced, since she steamed headlong onto the rocks with her fog siren going full blast. An old gig, the Dolly Varden, was launched from Porth Cressa and after searching around Gugh and Wingletang area, found the Plympton with her boys hard and fast ashore, listing heavily to port. After her crew of 23 had been landed, the islanders set about the age-old practise of stripping the wreck. That afternoon, whilst work was still in progress, the flood tide gently lifted the steamer off the rocks and without warning she turned right over and sank, leaving only the bow section above water. Two local men, Charles Mumford of St. Marys and Charles Hicks of St. Agnes, were sucked down by the wrecked and drowned. Several others had lucky escapes: one in particular , a visitor to Scily named Ormrod, was actually inside the deckhouse when the steamer capsized. He went down with her but managed to escape through a porthole and reached the surface still clutching his trophy, the saloon stewards dinner bell. A remarkable coincidence occurred when in 1920, a German steamer Hathor, 7060 tons gross, sank right across the wreck of the Plympton on the base of the Lethegus Rock. Richard Larn, Cornish Shipwrecks: Isles of Scilly (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.76-79. Wrecks https://photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/The_Ronald_Garlick_Newport_Collection_of_Gibson_Wreck_Photographs/16223/RGN.086.tif c133394e72791f87aeb710f031843a66 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Ronald Garlick Newport Collection of Gibson Wreck Photographs Description An account of the resource A collection of mostly shipwreck photographs mostly by Gibson of Penzance. References: CSI: Richard Larn & Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks, Vol 1: The South Coast, 1969 DSA: Charles Hocking, Dictionary of Disasters at Sea During the Age of Steam 1824-1962, 1969 2 volumes PSD: David L Williams, A Dictionary of Passenger Ship Disasters, 2009 WR: Cyrill Noall & Graham Farr, Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast, 3 vols, 1964-5 Larn: Richard Larn Cornish Shipwrecks: the Isles of Scilly Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 8" x 5" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource S.S. Plympton, Scilly, 1909. Subject The topic of the resource Bows of Plympton, after wreck suddenly sank with loss of two lives. Portion of boat visible on left, and St Agnes coastguard houses in far distance. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gibson Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1909-08-14 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Morrab library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Print Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RGN.086 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant St. Agnes, Isles of Scilly Description An account of the resource 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, the Plympton was 314ft in length and 2, 869 tons gross was declared a total loss, her value for insurance purposes being set at 16,000 with her cargo at an additional £25,000. Her arrival was not exactly unannounced, since she steamed headlong onto the rocks with her fog siren going full blast. An old gig, the Dolly Varden, was launched from Porth Cressa and after searching around Gugh and Wingletang area, found the Plympton with her boys hard and fast ashore, listing heavily to port. After her crew of 23 had been landed, the islanders set about the age-old practise of stripping the wreck. That afternoon, whilst work was still in progress, the flood tide gently lifted the steamer off the rocks and without warning she turned right over and sank, leaving only the bow section above water. Two local men, Charles Mumford of St. Marys and Charles Hicks of St. Agnes, were sucked down by the wrecked and drowned. Several others had lucky escapes: one in particular , a visitor to Scily named Ormrod, was actually inside the deckhouse when the steamer capsized. He went down with her but managed to escape through a porthole and reached the surface still clutching his trophy, the saloon stewards dinner bell. A remarkable coincidence occurred when in 1920, a German steamer Hathor, 7060 tons gross, sank right across the wreck of the Plympton on the base of the Lethegus Rock. Richard Larn, Cornish Shipwrecks: Isles of Scilly (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.76-79. 1891-1910 Seafaring and shipping Wrecks https://photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/The_Ronald_Garlick_Newport_Collection_of_Gibson_Wreck_Photographs/16338/RGN.093.tif f0acb2c4be2618c3e0259929bb0341a7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Ronald Garlick Newport Collection of Gibson Wreck Photographs Description An account of the resource A collection of mostly shipwreck photographs mostly by Gibson of Penzance. References: CSI: Richard Larn & Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks, Vol 1: The South Coast, 1969 DSA: Charles Hocking, Dictionary of Disasters at Sea During the Age of Steam 1824-1962, 1969 2 volumes PSD: David L Williams, A Dictionary of Passenger Ship Disasters, 2009 WR: Cyrill Noall & Graham Farr, Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast, 3 vols, 1964-5 Larn: Richard Larn Cornish Shipwrecks: the Isles of Scilly Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 8" x 11" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource S.S. Ravonia near St. Ives, 1911 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gibson Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1911-06-01 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Morrab library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Print Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RGN.093 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant St. Ives Subject The topic of the resource S.S. Ravonia ashore near St Ives, 1 June 1911. Close bows-on view with numerous figures working in foreground. Wrecks https://photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/The_Ronald_Garlick_Newport_Collection_of_Gibson_Wreck_Photographs/16154/RGN.062.tif a31ee5a92ba2d7d66be6f0538b2977bc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Ronald Garlick Newport Collection of Gibson Wreck Photographs Description An account of the resource A collection of mostly shipwreck photographs mostly by Gibson of Penzance. References: CSI: Richard Larn & Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks, Vol 1: The South Coast, 1969 DSA: Charles Hocking, Dictionary of Disasters at Sea During the Age of Steam 1824-1962, 1969 2 volumes PSD: David L Williams, A Dictionary of Passenger Ship Disasters, 2009 WR: Cyrill Noall & Graham Farr, Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast, 3 vols, 1964-5 Larn: Richard Larn Cornish Shipwrecks: the Isles of Scilly Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 10" x 8" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource S.S. Rosalia wrecked at Hartland, 1904 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gibson Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1904-05-27 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Morrab library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Print Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RGN.062 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Hartland Subject The topic of the resource S.S. Rosalia, wrecked at Hartland, 27 May 1904 Wrecks https://photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/The_Ronald_Garlick_Newport_Collection_of_Gibson_Wreck_Photographs/16246/RGN.092.tif 59a09f8d542cb406456f5ba70b71e2e1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Ronald Garlick Newport Collection of Gibson Wreck Photographs Description An account of the resource A collection of mostly shipwreck photographs mostly by Gibson of Penzance. References: CSI: Richard Larn & Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks, Vol 1: The South Coast, 1969 DSA: Charles Hocking, Dictionary of Disasters at Sea During the Age of Steam 1824-1962, 1969 2 volumes PSD: David L Williams, A Dictionary of Passenger Ship Disasters, 2009 WR: Cyrill Noall & Graham Farr, Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast, 3 vols, 1964-5 Larn: Richard Larn Cornish Shipwrecks: the Isles of Scilly Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 11" x 8" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource S.S. Setiembre, Scilly, 1911 Subject The topic of the resource Spanish steamer Setiembre, with cargo of iron ore, wrecked on the Hats, Eastern Isles, Scilly, 26 March 1911. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gibson Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1911-03-26 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Morrab library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Print Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RGN.092 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant St. Martins, Isles of Scilly Description An account of the resource 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. <br /><br />The vessel had lost her rudder and badly holed in her hull when she hit some rocks. By midnight, she had flooded from end to end and although her entire cargo of ore was dumped overboard in an attempt to lighten her, she was eventually abandoned to the sea. Her boilers still shows above the surface at low water. <br /><br />Description from Richard Larn, Cornish Shipwrecks: Isles of Scilly (Newton Abbot: David &amp; Charles, 1917), p.155. 1911-1930 Seafaring and shipping Wrecks https://photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/The_Ronald_Garlick_Newport_Collection_of_Gibson_Wreck_Photographs/16371/RGN.101b.tif 9fb6f4a5dc2e660b3e7c644560b10c38 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Ronald Garlick Newport Collection of Gibson Wreck Photographs Description An account of the resource A collection of mostly shipwreck photographs mostly by Gibson of Penzance. References: CSI: Richard Larn & Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks, Vol 1: The South Coast, 1969 DSA: Charles Hocking, Dictionary of Disasters at Sea During the Age of Steam 1824-1962, 1969 2 volumes PSD: David L Williams, A Dictionary of Passenger Ship Disasters, 2009 WR: Cyrill Noall & Graham Farr, Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast, 3 vols, 1964-5 Larn: Richard Larn Cornish Shipwrecks: the Isles of Scilly Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 8" x 11" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource S.S. South America ashore at Merthen Point, March 12th 1912. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gibson Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1912-03-13 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Morrab library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Print Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RGN.101b Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Merthen Point Subject The topic of the resource Shipwreck Description An account of the resource 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 until March 12th 1912, when it cleared and Captain Bowling was able to morse 'All's well' to the signal station on the Lizard. But less than half an hour later the South America was steaming through thick banks of drizzle and frequent squalls of torrential rain and having to steer a zigzag course across Mount's Bay to avoid a Newlyn pilchard fleet, strung out haphazardly from Mousehole island to Runnelstone. At Midnight, Captain Bowling altered course northward to take the South America round Land's End. She ploughed on through the murk with the lookouts still keeping a wary eye open for the fishing boats and had just avoided a lugger lying at her nets when second officer Read saw the dark shape of land right ahead. The helm was swung hard over, but even as the steamer's 389 horse power engine was put violently into reverse there was a rumbling screech and she shuddered over the big round boulders of St. Loy Bay. By the time it rattled down on St. Loy bay, the steamer had been identified as the South America from London. A rocket line was fired over her, but as no one was left aboard to secure it. Captain Alfred Bowling and Chief officer Thom, and second officer Harold Read, a Penzance man, swam out, climbed up a rope over the ship's side and set up the lines to work the breeches-buoy. As dawn lightened the sky above Carn Boscawen, the ship's instruments and the crew's baggage were landed and the South America was seen to be lying broadside-on near Merton Point, at the western end of St. Loy. She looked intact, but when the tide ebbed her bottom plates were seen to be badly damaged. The salvage steamer Lady of the Isles arrived, but even then it was obvious reflecting the stranded steamer would be a very difficult operation. In the days after the wreck, prospects of salvage grew dimmer with every tide, and a gale which blew up a week later caused more serious damage. Finally, the underwriters disposed of her to the Western Marine Salvage Company of Penzance, who began to break her up. At a Board of Trade Enquiry in May 1912, Captain Bowling and his officers levelled charged of looting at the people of St. Loy, as a number of things, including the Chief Officer Thom's Boer war medals and a large manila hawser (ship rope) had mysteriously disappeared. The medals were returned but the hawser was not, and there was talk that someone had been wrecking. These accusations were bitterly resented by the local people, many of whom had given very help and opened their homes to the shipwrecked crew. After two days, the findings of the court were announced. Captain Bowling was found guilty of not having navigated the South America with due care and in a proper and seamanlike manner; he had failed to take soundings after the shore lights were obscured and should not have altered course until he was certain of the steamer's position. In view of his previous unblemished record, he did not lose his certificate but received a severe warning. After the proceedings he withdrew his allegations about the looting of the South America. During the spring and summer of 1912, the local people became familiar with the great hulk of the South American and the breaking gangs who swarmed over her, and many could remember similar scenes twenty years before, when the French pit wood steamer Saintonge was wrecked in the bay. Autumn came and the South America was still slowly diminishing as the salvage men cut deeper into her steel hull. October was an even foggier month than usual that year, and it was during the dark hours of the 14th that the extraordinary wrecked occurred in St. Loy, exactly seven months after the first one. At half-past three in the morning, John Richards was roused from his bed for the second time that year by unusual noise in the bay. He thought at first that the salvage men must have raised steam on the South America, or were engaged on som particularly noisy job, but as it seemed unlikely at that hour he took the lantern he had used to guide in the South America's crew and made his way down to the shore. Thick fog swirled over the sea and it was several minutes before he saw a small steamer right against the big hulk's weather side. Within an hour, the Lady of the Isles had arrived, towing the Newlyn Lifeboat, while the rocket cart from Mousehole had joined the inhabitants of St. Loy on the same rocks from which they had fired the line over the South America. The lifeboatmen and coastguards soon discovered that the stranded steamer was the 599- ton steel screw, schooner-rigged Abertay. Owned by Boise et Chabois of Lorient and bound for Barry with a cargo of pit wood. Description taken from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coasts (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.203-208. 1911-1930 Seafaring and shipping Wrecks https://photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/The_Ronald_Garlick_Newport_Collection_of_Gibson_Wreck_Photographs/16307/RGN.120.tif fd6b09d8f48587bc4ba3aec343f592ae Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Ronald Garlick Newport Collection of Gibson Wreck Photographs Description An account of the resource A collection of mostly shipwreck photographs mostly by Gibson of Penzance. References: CSI: Richard Larn & Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks, Vol 1: The South Coast, 1969 DSA: Charles Hocking, Dictionary of Disasters at Sea During the Age of Steam 1824-1962, 1969 2 volumes PSD: David L Williams, A Dictionary of Passenger Ship Disasters, 2009 WR: Cyrill Noall & Graham Farr, Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast, 3 vols, 1964-5 Larn: Richard Larn Cornish Shipwrecks: the Isles of Scilly Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 8" x 6" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource S.S. Western Front, Lands End, 1921. Subject The topic of the resource S.S. Western Front ablaze off the Runnelstone, Land's End, 15 July 1914. Steamer Peninnis and lifeboat in foreground. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Paul, PZ Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1921-07-15 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Morrab library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Print Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RGN.120 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Runnelstone. Description An account of the resource Annotation l. left, "Vaughan Paul, Penzance" Wrecks https://photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/files/original/The_Ronald_Garlick_Newport_Collection_of_Gibson_Wreck_Photographs/16243/RGN.090.tif 025f5d28a043afd82afbf8a3602254f7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Ronald Garlick Newport Collection of Gibson Wreck Photographs Description An account of the resource A collection of mostly shipwreck photographs mostly by Gibson of Penzance. References: CSI: Richard Larn & Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks, Vol 1: The South Coast, 1969 DSA: Charles Hocking, Dictionary of Disasters at Sea During the Age of Steam 1824-1962, 1969 2 volumes PSD: David L Williams, A Dictionary of Passenger Ship Disasters, 2009 WR: Cyrill Noall & Graham Farr, Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast, 3 vols, 1964-5 Larn: Richard Larn Cornish Shipwrecks: the Isles of Scilly Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 11" x 8" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource S.S. William Cory, Pendeen, 1910 Subject The topic of the resource S.S. William Cory, closer view from astern, showing vessel well aground with propeller visible and deck cargo of pit props still largely intact. Smaller steamer visible in distance. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gibson Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1910-09-05 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Morrab library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Print Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RGN.090 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Pendeen Wrecks