The steamer Jebba (1896) aground off Bolt Tail, near Hope Cove.

An elevated view looking down from the cliffs onto a bow view of the cargo steamer 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 bow is obscured by the cliff-face rock in the foreground. A few people are on the lower cliff-face by the lines ashore with small wooden cases salvaged from the ship.

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: G14002
Collection: Historic Photographs
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Gibson & Sons of Scilly
Vessels: Jebba (1896)
Date made: March 1907
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Gibson's of Scilly Shipwreck Collection
Measurements: Overall: 254 mm x 304 mm