Palinurus
A full-sized figure in formal dress of about 1830, holding a sword above his head. The figurehead is from the Palinurus which went into the Lion Rock, off the north of St Martin's, while inward bound from Demerara in 1848. All her crew of 17 were drowned, eventually washed ashore and buried on St Mary's. The first alarm was raised by cattle, frightened out of their field by the noise of the vessel’s sails flapping and tearing in the wind.
Local people managed to save some of her cargo with 14 hogsheads, 71 puncheons of spirits and 9 quarter-casks of rum being brought ashore. Palinurus is the name of the helmsman of Achilles in Homer's Iliad.
Palinurus
A full-sized figure in formal dress of about 1830, holding a sword above his head. The figurehead is from the Palinurus which went into the Lion Rock, off the north of St Martin's, while inward bound from Demerara in 1848. All her crew of 17 were drowned, eventually washed ashore and buried on St Mary's. The first alarm was raised by cattle, frightened out of their field by the noise of the vessel’s sails flapping and tearing in the wind.
Local people managed to save some of her cargo with 14 hogsheads, 71 puncheons of spirits and 9 quarter-casks of rum being brought ashore. Palinurus is the name of the helmsman of Achilles in Homer's Iliad.