Volume Eight - Pre-Victorian to the present day - more aspects - Peter Campbell - A Gallant Pioneer

I researched the loss of the St Columba and found the following newspaper reports.

Overdue Vessel - 'The steamer Columba which left Cardiff on the 28th of January for Bombay, according to a telegram received on Tuesday from Lloyd's agents at Port Said, has not yet arrived in the Suez Canal.' South Wales Daily News [325] 21st February 1883

The Western Mail [164] reported wreckage in a report of the 2nd March 1883:

Disasters at Sea - Loss of a Steamer From Penarth and All Hands - Three of the Crew Welshmen - 'Intelligence has been received of the loss of the steamer St Columba, of Liverpool, and all hands. Wreckage, which it has been ascertained belonged to the St Columba, has been washed ashore near Marenne, in the Bay of Biscay. The St Columba left Penarth on the 28th of January for Bombay, with a cargo of coal. She was under the command of Captain Dumeresq, and there is no doubt that the vessel was overpowered by the terrible weather which prevailed in the Bay of Biscay at the commencement of the past month. The crew signed articles at Penarth. The St Columba was an iron screw steamer of 2,233 tons gross register, and was constructed in Liverpool in 1880. She had engines of some 300-horse power. The missing steamer is the property of the St Columba Steamship Company, of Liverpool.'

	The image on the left contains the names of the crew of the St Columba who signed articles at Penarth for that fateful voyage.
	The book, 'The Gallant Pioneers' by Gary Ralston provides a fascinating insight into the formation of the Glasgow Rangers Football Club and of the life of Peter Campbell.