The Scilly Isles Steam Navigation Company provided shipping services between Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly from 1858 to 1872.[1]
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The company was founded in 1858 by John Banfield, Thomas Johns Buxton, William Mumford Hoskin and James Phillips, shareholders in the Little Western Steamship Association.
The company operated two vessels.
The steamship SS Scotia operated from 1858 to 1859.
The Little Western operated from 1859 to 1871.[2] She was a Steam Schooner with a 2 cylinder Iron Screw built in 1858 in Renfrew by James Henderson & Sons (Yard No. 25). She displaced 115 ( 148 ) tons gross; 67 tons net and was 115ft 9ins in length; 18ft 5 ins in breadth and 9ft 4ins in depth.
On the winding up of the company the ship was transferred to the West Cornwall Steam Ship Company.
She was wrecked on Southward Wells Reef on 6 October 1872 attempting to give assistance to a disabled brigantine ship.
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