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Loss
Date 10 December 1885
Event ID 558170
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/558170
10 December 1885, EAGLE, 45 yrs old, registered Rye, wooden schooner, 76 tons, 4 crew. Master W. Ross, Owner S. McKenzie, Stornoway. Departed Assynt, Sutherlandshire, for Ullapool, Co. Ross, carrying fishing stock. Wind variable 1, stranded Calva Island, Badcall, near Sutherlandshire.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1885-86 (1887 [C.5196] LXXIV.449).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1901).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of fishing stock: date of loss cited as 10 December 1885). Eagle: this vessel stranded at on Calva Island, near Badcall, Sutherland. (Possibly equated with Calbha Beag or Calbha Mor). [Capt.] Ross.
Registration: Rye. Built 1840. 76 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N58 17.0 W5 9.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
