A cliff-top port bow view of the passenger cargo/liner Jebba (1896) aground at the bottom of Bolt Tail cliffs, Hope Cove.

An elevated view looking down from the cliffs onto the port side from bow of the passenger cargo/liner Jebba (1896) aground broadside-to the cliffs of Bolt Tail, near Hope Cove, Devon. The ship has a slight list to starboard. Lines stretch from the ship to the cliffs where the Breeches Buoy system was used to rescue to the 155 passengers and crew, at least one chimpanzee and three monkeys. The cliff top and part of the face dominates the bottom and right of the photograph.

The Jebba was on its way from Nigeria and the Gold Coast to Plymouth with a cargo of specie, ivory, palm oil, fruit and mail, when it ran aground in thick fog on 18 March 1907. The ship had broken up by summer.

Object Details

ID: G14285
Collection: Historic Photographs
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Gibson & Sons of Scilly
Date made: 19 March to pre 7 April 1907; March 1907
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Gibson's of Scilly Shipwreck Collection
Measurements: Overall: 6 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in