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Loss
Date 6 September 1861
Event ID 568383
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/568383
Tobermory, 10th Sept. The JOHN (smack) of Rush, port of Dublin, Herbert, from Orkney to Dublin, with herrings, got ashore in Salem Bay, Mull, on the night of 6th Sept.: cargo discharging.
Source: LL, No. 14,802, London, Friday, September 13 1861.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10121).
(Classified as smack, with cargo of herring: date of loss cited as 6 September 1861). John: this vessel stranded in Salem Bay, Sound of Mull. Capt. Herbert. Registration: Rush.
(Location of loss cited as N56 31.5 W5 57.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.