Loss

Date 22 October 1864

Event ID 569332

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/569332

Granton, 23rd Oct. The following vessels drifted from their anchors under Inchkeith and are on shore outside the harbour breakwater, all of them total wrecks:- VICTORIA, of Denmark, Jensen, from Amsterdam, in ballast: JOHANNA MARGRETTA, of Norway, Larson, from Dundee to Langesund, in ballast: BOGAMILLA, of Pruss., Hensen, from Shields to Danzig: DOROTHEA, of Prussia, Saathoff, from London to Elsinore, in ballast: ELIZA HALL, of Whitby, Carr, from Gefle to London, with timber and iron: crews all saved, except one man drowned from the VICTORIA.

Source: LL, No. 15,769, London, Tuesday, October 25 1864.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10672).

(No classification specified: cargo cited as ballast, and date of loss cited as 22 October 1864). Johanna Margaretta: this vessel was wrecked at Caroline Park, West of Granton. Capt. Lawson.

Registration: Norwegian.

(Location of loss cited as N55 59.0 W3 14.5).

I G Whittaker 1998.