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Copper ingot

Vivian & Sons

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.

Copper Ingots (from Vivian and Sons, Swansea) recovered from the wreck of ss BENAMAIN
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Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

1994.170/1

Creation/Production

Vivian & Sons
Date: 1890 (circa)

Acquisition

Purchase, 17/10/1994

Measurements

Length (mm): 295
Width (mm): 70
Height (mm): 70
Weight (kg): 6.8

Material

copper

Location

In store

Categories

copper (smelting) metal smelting West Glamorgan Benamain (S.S.) 1890s

Classification

wrecks and wrecking
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