DETAILS OF THE SS CORNUBIA OF CARDIFF

(Extracted from the Registration documents at Glamorgan Record Office, Cardiff)

Registration Number 68150

The Cornubia was built at Wallsend, Northumberland in 1873. She was a steam, screw driven, schooner rigged ship with one deck and two masts and eliptical stern.

Gross Tonnage was 924 tons; Registered Tonnage 585 tons.

Length overall 210 feet

Breadth 29 feet

Depth 18 feet

She had two engines which were built by Black & Hawthorn, Gateshead in 1873. Total horse power 95. The engines were housed in an engine room 32 feet long.

Ownership was by 64 shares. Shares were held by :-

John Last Sayer (of London)

Thomas Francis Sayer (of Lowestoft)

Elizabeth Sayer (of Lowestoft)

James Edwards (of Cardiff)

James Richard Powell (of Cardiff)

Lewis Williams (of Cardiff)

Louis Jean Baptiste Gueret (of Cardiff)

Eugene Constant Bregeon (of Cardiff)

Richard Short & Martin Dunn (jointly) (Managing Agents for the ship) (of Cardiff)

Richard Perry (of St.Ives, Cornwall)

Edward Tremby (of St.Ives, Cornwall)

John Rodda (of St.Ives, Cornwall)

John Greenwood Bone

William Morley & JohnHollow (jointly)

Richard Glasson Michell

Thomas Willis Field

John Richards (Master of the ship)

William Dunn

George Richards (of St.Ives, Cornwall)

Elizabeth Thomas

Matthew Thomas

Thomas Trewhella John (of St.Ives, Cornwall)

Wiliam Vivian (of Llantrisant)



LOSS OF A CARDIFF STEAMER AND TWO OF THE CREW

A brief telegram, received by the owners of the S. S. Cornubia in Cardiff, yesterday morning, announces the total loss of that steamer and two of the crew. It appears that the Cornubia left Cardiff on Thursday, the 9th inst., for Palermo, with coal, and that on the morning of the 15th, during very thick weather, the vessel being then off the Spanish coast, she unfortunately got on the Sancti Pitri shoals, about 9 or 10 miles east of Cadiz, and became a total wreck. The second engineer, Thos. Stockwood, of Cardiff, and Tom Mitchell, fireman, of Swansea, were drowned; both men were married, and leave families to mourn their loss. The steamer was a new vessel, and had barely been launched four months, of 1,100 tons burthen, and had a crew of 20 all told. Capt. John Richards, of Cardiff, was in command.


Note: Tom Mitchell is not in the Cardiff Crew List so must have joined the ship elsewhere, probably at Swansea.