Loss

Date 3 October 1860

Event ID 556694

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/556694

Corry by Broadford, (Isle of Skye), 8th Oct [1860]. The gale of the 3rd Oct., occasioned much damage among the fishing craft on this coast. The following vessels are also reported on shore, and damaged: at Glenelg Bay, West coast of Invernesshire, the MEDORA (schr.), of and from Inverness, for Glasgow, with staves. At Loch Dunvegan, in this island, the MARY (sloop), of Kirkcudbright, bound to that Loch with salt from Liverpool: and at the Sound of Scalpay, in this island, the sloop GEORGE & JANE, of Dumfries, partly loaded with herrings. [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9926).

(Classified as sloop, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as 3 October 1860). Mary: this vessel stranded at Loch Dunvegan. (See Stornoway loss about this time).

Registration: Kirkcudbright.

(Location of loss cited as N57 30.0 W6 40.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.