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Loss
Date 15 July 1862
Event ID 568571
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/568571
Thurso, 15th July. [recd. 18th, per E.T. from Inverness at 10.20]. The BOOMERANG (brig), of Dundee, from Havana to Copenhagen, struck on St. John's Point, Pentland Firth: shortly in deep water: crew saved: vessel and cargo lost.
Source: LL, No. 15,064, London, Friday, July 18 1862.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10240).
(Classified as brig, with cargo of sugar: date of loss cited as 15 July 1862). Boomerang: this vessel was wrecked on St John's Reef.
Registration: Dundee. Built 1854. 214grt. Length: 30m. Beam: 7m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 39.67 W3 11.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
