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.