Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - 'Windjammers' and Penarth Dock . . . .

The 1882 Inversnaid, a ship of 1550 tons net, was one of the last ships built in Steele's yard at Greenock, the last being the Inveruglas, now known as the Tusitala. In 1886 the Inversnaid and the Inveruglas were bought by Thompson, Anderson & Co., of Liverpool, the founders of the famous Sierra Line. The Inveruglas became the Sierra Lucena, but the Inversnaid was lost before she could be renamed. On October 15, 1886, she sailed from Penarth for Singapore under Captain James Dodds, with four other ships in company. That night there was a furious storm in the Bristol Channel, and all five ships were lost with all hands. The only evidence to prove that the Inversnaid had foundered in the Bristol Channel was discovered about a fortnight later when her figure-head and part of a life-boat were washed up on Lundy Island. [1336] [499]