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Copper ingot
Shaped copper ingot, oxidised to a purple colour. Recovered from wreck of S.S. BENAMAIN, outward bound from Swansea for Treport, north east France with 'general cargo', struck rocks off Lundy in fog and was wrecked at Oxwich Bay, Gower on 29 March 1890, with no loss of life. Cargo was mainly cathodes (about 180 tons) with a smaller cargo of ingots (about 20 tons). Ingot is marked "V & S" which stands for Vivian & Sons, Swansea's largest firm of smelters.
S.S. BENAMAIN. Iron steamship. Wrecked at Oxwich Bay, Gower on 29 March 1890.
Pwnc
Diwydiant
Rhif yr Eitem
1994.170/2
Historical Associations
Associated Person/Body: Vivian & Sons
Association Type: metal company
Date: 1890 (circa)
Creu/Cynhyrchu
Vivian & Sons
Derbyniad
Purchase, 17/10/1994
Mesuriadau
Meithder
(mm): 300
Lled
(mm): 70
Uchder
(mm): 60
Pwysau
(kg): 6
Deunydd
copper
Lleoliad
In store
Dosbarth
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