Builder James Henderson & Sons Out of service 6 October 1872 Length 35 m | Yard number 25 Launched 4 November 1858 | |
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Name 1858-1872 S.S. Little Western Route 1860-1868Ardrossan to Arran1871-1872Penzance to Isles of Scilly | ||
SS Little Western was a passenger vessel operated by the Scilly Isles Steam Navigation Company from 1858 to 1871 and the West Cornwall Steam Ship Company from 1871 to 1872
History
The Little Western was built by James Henderson and Son at Renfrew as a two cylinder iron screw steam schooner and launched on 4 November 1858. (The report of her launch on 25 April 1860 in the Greenock Telegraph and Clyde Shipping Gazette of 28 April 1860 is presumably an error).
She was operated from operated by the Scilly Isles Steam Navigation Company from 1858 to 1871. Captain Tregarthen was captain of the Little Western from 1859 to 1870. She transferred from the Scilly Isles Steam Navigation Company to the West Cornwall company in 1871 for the sum of £2,640 (equivalent to £222,000 in 2015).
Only a few weeks after the loss of the company’s other ship, the Paddle Steamer Earl of Arran, she was wrecked on Southward Wells Reef, off Samson on 6 October 1872 while attempting to give assistance to a disabled brigantine ship, Due Fratelli.