A stern view from Bolt Tail cliffs, near Hope Covve, of the passenger cargo/liner Jebba (1896) aground on the rocks below.

An elevated distant view looking down from the cliffs across to the stern 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. A sailing ketch, with its sails furled, is along the starboard side.

The cliff face dominates the left side of the image and people can be seen on the cliff top with salvaged cargo packing cases.

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 Times reports that the forepart was entirely submerged at times by 7 April. [The Times, Monday 8 April 1907]. The ship had broken up by summer.

Object Details

ID: G14291
Collection: Historic Photographs
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Gibson & Sons of Scilly
Date made: 19 March 1907 to early April 1907; 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
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