Title
Sailing Ship Ross Bridge Steam RollerThis Schooner is the" Leon Burau."
Subject
Info on card
Description
The vessel is the Leon Bureau, a three masted sailing Schooner in Penzance floating dock.
The Schooner Leon Bureau of Nantes was carrying 2,600 tons of wheat from Adelaide to Falmouth.
On June 18th 1909, she hit the northern end of the rocks, tore a large hole in her bow and drifted off into the fog. The crew only just managing to hold their own with the pumps. Two naval torpedo-boats were sighted to the Seven Stones reef, but both failed to see the Leon Bureau's signal of distress, and it was not until the she entered Mount's Bay that a Trinity pilot at Newlyn noticed her plight.
"On the 18th June 1909 Alfred Vingoe was returning to Penzance in his pilot boat when he noticed that a large sailing ship was lying low in the water and flying distress flags. He and his two crew members sailed over to the craft to find that the ship had been holed on a rock off the Scilly Isles and was fast taking in water. Climbing aboard Alfred told the captain to put on full sail where she was beached just outside the harbour. The cargo was discharged into smaller ships and the ship then towed into Penzance harbour to be repaired. "
Even the pilot-gig was unable to catch up with the Frenchman until off Mullion, by which time there was six feet of water in the holds. Tugs came to her assistance, and at 17:15pm the Leon Bureau was beached alongside the Eastern extension pier at Falmouth. It was the end of a somewhat disastrous voyage.
When off Cape Hope in March, the sea had swept away the ship's binnacle wheel, rudder, bell, and topgallant yard, in addition to breaking the bosun's leg. The following month, Francis Allard, the ship's boy, had fallen from a yard and died, and only hours before the ship struck the Crims an able seaman had fallen over the poop deck rail and fractured his ribs. The final incident occurred whilst alongside at Falmouth, when the bow anchor slipped while being catted and crushed a seaman's foot.
Most of the description is taken from Richard Larn, Cornish Shipwrecks: Isles of Scilly (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.53-54.
A full account of the Alfred Vingoe is available in the Cornishman newspaper, May 20 1908.
The Schooner Leon Bureau of Nantes was carrying 2,600 tons of wheat from Adelaide to Falmouth.
On June 18th 1909, she hit the northern end of the rocks, tore a large hole in her bow and drifted off into the fog. The crew only just managing to hold their own with the pumps. Two naval torpedo-boats were sighted to the Seven Stones reef, but both failed to see the Leon Bureau's signal of distress, and it was not until the she entered Mount's Bay that a Trinity pilot at Newlyn noticed her plight.
"On the 18th June 1909 Alfred Vingoe was returning to Penzance in his pilot boat when he noticed that a large sailing ship was lying low in the water and flying distress flags. He and his two crew members sailed over to the craft to find that the ship had been holed on a rock off the Scilly Isles and was fast taking in water. Climbing aboard Alfred told the captain to put on full sail where she was beached just outside the harbour. The cargo was discharged into smaller ships and the ship then towed into Penzance harbour to be repaired. "
Even the pilot-gig was unable to catch up with the Frenchman until off Mullion, by which time there was six feet of water in the holds. Tugs came to her assistance, and at 17:15pm the Leon Bureau was beached alongside the Eastern extension pier at Falmouth. It was the end of a somewhat disastrous voyage.
When off Cape Hope in March, the sea had swept away the ship's binnacle wheel, rudder, bell, and topgallant yard, in addition to breaking the bosun's leg. The following month, Francis Allard, the ship's boy, had fallen from a yard and died, and only hours before the ship struck the Crims an able seaman had fallen over the poop deck rail and fractured his ribs. The final incident occurred whilst alongside at Falmouth, when the bow anchor slipped while being catted and crushed a seaman's foot.
Most of the description is taken from Richard Larn, Cornish Shipwrecks: Isles of Scilly (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.53-54.
A full account of the Alfred Vingoe is available in the Cornishman newspaper, May 20 1908.
Date
1909
Identifier
HARB 14HF 053
Coverage
Penzance
Isles of Scilly
Building Name
St Michaels Mount
Period Costume
N
Street Name
Wharf Road
Individual Names
Leon Bureau