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Evidence Of Loss
Date August 1857
Event ID 558473
Category Recording
Type Evidence Of Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/558473
Loch Inver [Lochinver], 13th Aug. The bark [barque] NEPTUNE, of Liebau, apparently hemp laden, and supposed to have been but recently abandoned, drifted on the rocks at Stere [Store] Head [Point of Stoer], a few days since.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,426, London, Tuesday August 17 1847.
The NEPTUNE, reported yesterday from Loch Inver [Lochinver], as derelict, and on shore near Store Head [Point of Stoer], was bound from St. Petersburg for Liverpool.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,427, London, Wednesday August 18 1847.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8184).
(Classified as barque, with cargo of hemp: date cited as 11 August 1847). Neptune: this vessel was abandoned and later ashore at Store Head [Point of Stoer], near Lochinvar [Lochinver]. Registration: Liebau.
(Location of loss cited as N58 15.0 WW5 24.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
