Scilly Isles Steam Navigation Company

[1] The company was founded in 1858 by John Banfield, Thomas Johns Buxton, William Mumford Hoskin and James Phillips, shareholders in the Little Western Steamship Association.

The steamship SS Scotia on loan for a few months in 1858 and 1859.

[2] The Little Western was launched at Renfrew from the yard of James Henderson and Son on 4 November 1858.

[3] She made her maiden voyage from Penzance to Scilly on 6 December 1858.

She was wrecked on Southward Wells Reef, off Samson on 6 October 1872 while attempting to give assistance to a disabled brigantine ship, Due Fratelli.