The 2,070-ton Busby was launched in February 1894 at Stockton as a steel screw schooner-rigged steamer for the general Indian trade of Ropner & Co of West Hartlepool. She had made only one Indian voyage when she sailed from Newport on the evening of…
Group of men on Ponsandane Bridge .
A man with a bucket is by the river, a water carrier is on the bridge.
The river runs past what is now Tesco supermarket.