Loss

Date 25 October 1865

Event ID 569783

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/569783

Aberdeen, 25th Oct. The WATERWITCH (st. tug), from Leith to Port Edgar, with sleepers, has been totally wrecked near South Queensferry.

Source: LL, No. 16,082, London, Thursday, October 26 1865.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10862).

(Classified as steam tug: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 25 October 1865). Waterwitch: this vessel was wrecked at North [sic.] Queensferry.

(Location of loss cited as N56 0.5 W3 23.5).

I G Whittaker 1998.