s.s. 'Life Brigade' - Report of Survey for Repairs for Life Brigade - 28th March 1874.

She was surveyed in Penarth Dock by Mr. Henry T. Tyrrell. The vessel was a screw steamer of 1,512 Gross Register Tonnage and registered to the Port of North Shields having been built by Robert Thompson and Sons of Sunderland during 1873. The survey was necessary due to her leaving Passage with repairs not completed.

The s.s. Life Brigade arrived at Penarth Dock, from Cork, Ireland, on the 17th March 1874 in ballast. Following her survey, as detailed above, she loaded 1,600 tons of coal and sailed for Aden under Captain Frederick Gray.

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1875 - 'Intelligence has been received at North Shields in confirmation of the telegram from New Orleans, previously published in the Times, that the new iron steamship Life Brigade, of North Shields, belonging to Alfred Shotton and partners, had been stranded near the Great Isaacs lighthouse, on a passage from Liverpool to New Orleans. She is supposed to have become a wreck. There is no intelligence of the fate of her crew, and there is great anxiety on the Tyne about them. Most of the officers and crew were Tyne men.' - 26th February 1875 - [241] [361] - The Cambrian.