Scilly Isles Steam Navigation Company

The Scilly Isles Steam Navigation Company provided shipping services between Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly from 1858 to 1872.[1]

Company

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.

Vessels

The company operated two vessels.

SS Scotia

The steamship SS Scotia on loan for a few months in 1858 and 1859.[2]

SS Little Western

The Little Western operated from 1859 to 1871.[3] She was a steam schooner with a two cylinder iron screw built in 1858 in Renfrew by James Henderson & Sons (Yard No. 25), Glasgow. 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 in 1871, the ship was transferred to the West Cornwall Steam Ship Company.

She was wrecked on Southward Wells Reef, off Samson on 6 October 1872 while attempting to give assistance to a disabled brigantine ship.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Ships monthly, Volume 10. 1975
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 McFarland, F (1927). "Shipwrecks of Scilly 1841 to 1880". Scillonian 11.
  3. ↑ Railway and other steamers. Christian Leslie Dyce Duckworth, Graham Easton Langmuir. 1968

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