{"id":3418,"date":"2010-06-08T20:14:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T20:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=3418"},"modified":"2026-03-21T19:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:45:11","slug":"jesmond-s-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/jesmond-s-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesmond, S.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>S.S.<\/strong><strong> J<\/strong><strong>esmond<\/strong> was the name of the British ship that allegedly discovered and landed on an uncharted island in the Atlantic in March 1882. Captain David Robson went ashore with a landing party who claimed to have found a variety of artefacts, including \u201cbronze swords, rings, and mallets, together with carvings of birds and animals\u2026..and what appeared to be a mummy enclosed in a stone case.\u201d Many of the finds including the sarcophagus were claimed to have been brought back to the ship<sup>(d)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Times Picayune<\/em> of New Orleans printed a report that it got from one of the sailors. The newspaper claimed that Captain Robson intended to present the objects brought on board to the British Museum on his return home.<b> <\/b>The British Museum found no record of the Robson collection<sup>(b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This whole story raises many questions:<\/p>\n<p>(i)\u00a0 \u00a0The island has not been seen since<\/p>\n<p>(ii)\u00a0\u00a0 In the competitive merchant-shipping world of the 1880\u2019s no captain would waste two days exploring any island.<\/p>\n<p>(iii)\u00a0 The British Museum has no record of receiving any such collection<\/p>\n<p>(iv)\u00a0\u00a0The log of the S.S. Jesmond was \u2018destroyed\u2019 during the London Blitz in 1940.<\/p>\n<p>(v)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The New Orleans newspaper retracted their story afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>(vi)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The S.S. Jesmond arrived in New Orleans on <strong>April 1<sup>st<\/sup><\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>(vii)<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/donnelly-ignatius-loyola\/\">Ignatius Donnelly\u2019s<\/a> book Atlantis was published in\u00a0\u00a0February 1882!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As late as 1955, the story was still being recycled as probably true<sup>(a)<\/sup>, but was finally debunked a year later, thanks to research by Lawrence Hills in the United States<sup>(c)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <em>Atlantis<\/em>, Volume 9, No.1, November 1955<\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <em>Atlantis<\/em>, Volume 9, No.4, May 1956<\/p>\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <em>Atlantis, <\/em>Volume 10, No.1, November 1965<\/p>\n<p><sup>(d)\u00a0 <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230326062842\/http:\/\/atlantisite.com\/morley.htm\">1956 cont (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S.S. Jesmond was the name of the British ship that allegedly discovered and landed on an uncharted island in the Atlantic in March 1882. Captain David Robson went ashore with a landing party who claimed to have found a variety of artefacts, including \u201cbronze swords, rings, and mallets, together with carvings of birds and animals\u2026..and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6437,6436,6435,3161],"class_list":["post-3418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-british-museum","tag-david-robson","tag-lawrence-hills","tag-s-s-jesmond"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3418"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66917,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions\/66917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}