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Loss
Date 6 March 1862
Event ID 568508
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/568508
Inverness, 10th Mar [1862]. The THORNBUSH (smack), of and from this port, for Invergordon, with lime, took fire in the harbour here 6th Mar., and was scuttled, after part of the cargo had been taken out: a further quantity has been since discharged at low water, but the vessel remains aground with her deck blown up. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10210).
(Classified as smack: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 6 March 1862). Thornbush: this vessel burnt in Inverness Harbour.
(Location of loss cited as N57 29.5 W4 15.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
