Maritime record MWX1609 - Peca Nova (Brodick Castle)

After the loss of the paddle steamer SS BOURNEMOUTH, her owners completed the season by chartering the PRINCESS HELENA and then purchased the paddle steamer BRODICK CASTLE (2 x 2 cyl.comp. 96 hp. manufactured by W. King and Co., Glasgow). She went into service as a passenger vessel in 1887 and was the largest pleasure steamer on the south coast at the time. Her engines were in fact second hand, having been taken out of the SS EAGLE when it was found they were too large with a heavy coal consumption, equal more to an Atlantic liner than a pleasure steamer. Her owners sold the BRODICK CASTLE after the 1909 season, having purchased the SS EMPEROR OF INDIA. The former vessel was sold to a South American company for service as a cattle boat and was stripped of her engines, boilers, funnels, accommodation and turned into a huge barge, which left Weymouth under tow. Several huge waves broke over both barge and tug, breaking the tow, and the barge sank. (1) Year Built: 1878 Builder: H MIntyre and Co. Where Built: Paisley Crew: 2 Date of Loss Qualifier: A Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index: LR.1907-8 No.1038(B) Ship Ahoy!, Vol.14 No.4 Weymouth Library photo.L387.5.B1.1

<1> Larn, Richard, 1992, United Kingdom shipwreck index, Extracted 23 November 1992 (Index). SWX5030.

<2> Larn, R, and Larn, B, 1995, Shipwreck index of the British Isles, volume 1 : Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset Section 6, Dorset (AJ) Vol 1 (Monograph). SWX4541.

<3> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 904 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<4> Cumming, E, The Dorset shipwreck and maritime incident directory, 17 (Monograph). SDO16406.

See Paca or Peca Nova

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 892057 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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