Title
SS Brinkburn, wrecked off Bryher, Isle of Scilly, December 15th 1898.
Subject
Shipwreck
Description
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 was unable to get clear.
Her crew, mostly Lascars (sailors from the Indian or Southeast Asian Continent) took to the boats and remained close to the wreck until daybreak, when once again the Bryher gigs were used to tow the survivors' boats ashore.
The Liverpool Salvage Company undertook to recover the cotton and seed, her cargo, valued at £100,000 having being insured by underwriters of that port.
The wreck of the S.S Brinkburn joined another wreck called the Zelda (which sunk on April 16th 1874) at the bottom of the sea. In 1966, the wrecks were examined by divers, to which they found a number of iron cannons between the two ships. This indicated that there must have been a third older ship to have wreck, but no record of a warship or armed merchantman having being lost there.
Description of wreck from Richard Larn, Cornish Shipwrecks: Isles of Scilly (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.125-126.
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 was unable to get clear.
Her crew, mostly Lascars (sailors from the Indian or Southeast Asian Continent) took to the boats and remained close to the wreck until daybreak, when once again the Bryher gigs were used to tow the survivors' boats ashore.
The Liverpool Salvage Company undertook to recover the cotton and seed, her cargo, valued at £100,000 having being insured by underwriters of that port.
The wreck of the S.S Brinkburn joined another wreck called the Zelda (which sunk on April 16th 1874) at the bottom of the sea. In 1966, the wrecks were examined by divers, to which they found a number of iron cannons between the two ships. This indicated that there must have been a third older ship to have wreck, but no record of a warship or armed merchantman having being lost there.
Description of wreck from Richard Larn, Cornish Shipwrecks: Isles of Scilly (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971), p.125-126.
Creator
Gibson
Date
1898-12-15
Rights
Morrab library
Format
Print
Identifier
RGN.043a
Coverage
Bryher, Isles of Scilly
Physical Dimensions
6" x 8"