Loss

Date 30 April 1864

Event ID 557974

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/557974

Stornoway, 2nd May [1864]. The CAROLINE (Dan. brgtne.), from Liverpool to Copenhagen, with salt, which sailed on the 29th Apl., after undergoing repairs here, was seen by some fishermen to go down the following day between this place and Cape Wrath. The crew took the boat and are supposed to have landed on the opposite coast. [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10614).

(Classified as brig, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as 30 April 1864). Caroline: this vessel foundered between Stornoway and Cape Wrath. Registration: Danish.

(Location of loss cited as N58 20.0 W5 40.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.