SS ''Little Western'' was a passenger vessel operated by the

Scilly Isles Steam Navigation Company The Scilly Isles Steam Navigation Company provided shipping services between Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly from 1858 to 1872. Company The company was founded in 1858 by John Banfield, Thomas Johns Buxton, William Mumford Hoskin and James Phi ...

from 1858 to 1871 and the

West Cornwall Steam Ship Company The West Cornwall Steam Ship Company was established in 1870 to operate ferry services between Penzance, Cornwall, and the Isles of Scilly. It became the West Cornwall Steamship Company in 1907 and was wound up in 1917. History The company was ...

from 1871 to 1872

History

The ''Little Western'' was built by James Henderson and Son at Renfrew as a two cylinder iron screw steam schooner and launched on 4 November 1858. She was operated from operated by the

from 1858 to 1871. Captain Tregarthen was captain of the ''Little Western'' from 1859 to 1870. She transferred from the Scilly Isles Steam Navigation Company to the West Cornwall company in 1871 for the sum of £2,640 (). Only a few weeks after the loss of the company’s other ship, the Paddle Steamer ''Earl of Arran'', she was wrecked on Southward Wells Reef, off

Samson Samson (; , '' he, Šīmšōn, label= none'', "man of the sun") was the last of the judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Book of Judges (chapters 13 to 16) and one of the last leaders who "judged" Israel before the institution ...

on 6 October 1872 while attempting to give assistance to a disabled brigantine ship, ''Due Fratelli''.

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