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SS Vesta
SS ''Vesta'' was a propeller-driven iron-hulled steamship, 250 gross tons, built in 1853 at Nantes, France by Hernoux et Cie of Dieppe for the Société Terreneuvienne of Granville in Normandy.〔 That firm had extensive fishing interests in the Grand Banks area off Newfoundland, which it operated from a base in Saint Pierre Island.〔Shaw, pp. 102–03〕 On 27 September 1854 ''Vesta'' was eastbound with a crew of 50, returning 147 fisherman and salters home. In a heavy fog, ''Vesta'' collided with the Collins Line passenger paddle steamer SS ''Arctic''.〔Brown, pp. 41–44〕 A ten-foot (three meter) section of Vesta's bow was sheared off, but the watertight bulkhead behind the bow remained intact and kept out the sea, keeping the vessel afloat.〔Paine, p. 545〕
The much larger ''Arctic'', which initially had appeared to have sustained only superficial damage, had been fatally holed below the waterline. Lacking watertight compartments, the hull filled with water and the ship sank, four hours later, with great loss of life.〔Flayhart, pp. 26–30〕 By contrast, the only casualties from ''Vesta''s crew and passengers were about a dozen who precipitately left the ship in a lifeboat, which was then accidentally run down by the ''Arctic''.〔Shaw, pp. 121–22〕
After the collision, ''Vesta''s captain, Alphonse Duchesne, brought the ship slowly to St John's, Newfoundland, which she reached on 29 September, and was repaired.〔Flayhart, p. 34〕 On 20 March, 1855 ''Vesta'' sailed for home, and was forced into Liverpool after fighting ice and storms for 17 days.〔 Later that year she was sold to the Compagnie Générale Maritime of Le Havre, and after further changes of ownership, passed in 1863 to J Amann of Bilbao and was renamed ''Amberes''. She was used as a freighter, generally working between northern Spanish ports and Antwerp. In 1875, the shipping registers reported her as sunk in Santander harbour.〔Brown, pp. 158–59〕
==See also==
*SS Arctic disaster
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