Title
S.S. Setiembre, Scilly, 1911
Subject
Spanish steamer Setiembre, with cargo of iron ore, wrecked on the Hats, Eastern Isles, Scilly, 26 March 1911.
Description
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.
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.
Description from Richard Larn, Cornish Shipwrecks: Isles of Scilly (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1917), p.155.
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.
Description from Richard Larn, Cornish Shipwrecks: Isles of Scilly (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1917), p.155.
Creator
Gibson
Date
1911-03-26
Rights
Morrab library
Format
Print
Identifier
RGN.092
Coverage
St. Martins, Isles of Scilly
Physical Dimensions
11" x 8"