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Loss
Date 22 September 1879
Event ID 555999
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/555999
22 September 1879, ASTARTE, 15 yrs old, of Southampton, wooden cutter, 53 tons, 8 crew, Master and Owner R. A. Napier, Glasgow, departed Scalpay, Harris, for Glasgow, in ballast, 8 passengers, wind SSE10, stranded, total loss, Sound of Harris, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1879-80 (1881 [C.2906] LXXXII.889).
ASTARTE yacht, lost in Loch Maddy, Sept. 22 last, is now sunk in seven feet of tenacious mud, and has resisted all efforts of salvors to dislodge her. Attempts to raise her have been abandoned.
Source: General, Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,549, London, Saturday [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2960).
(Classified as wooden cutter, in ballast: date of loss cited as 22 September 1879). Astarte: this vessel stranded in the Sound of Harris. Capt. Napier.
Registration: Southampton. Built 1864. 53 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N57 43.00 W7 5.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
