Loss

Date 21 February 1885

Event ID 556123

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/556123

21st February 1885, HERMINE, 22 yrs old, registered Cork, wooden brig, 224 tons, 7 crew, Master and Owner J. Molony, Cork. Departed Troon for Limerick carrying coal. Wind S10, stranded Sollas, N. Uist, Hebrides.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1884-85 (1887 [C.5094] LXXIV.247).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1965).

(Classified as wooden brig, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 21 February 1885). Hermine: this vessel stranded at Sollas [Solas], North Uist. Capt. Molony.

Registration: Cork. Built 1863. 224 tons unspecified.

(Location of loss cited as N57 40.0 W7 21.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.