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Loss
Date 3 January 1867
Event ID 570285
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/570285
Inverness, 5th Jan. The SISTERS (schr.), of Aberdeen, McKenzie, from Riga to Londonderry, with linseed, caught fire while at anchor in the roads in the night of 3rd Jan., and was run ashore at Loch Eil, where she burnt to the water's edge: nothing saved but a few spars and sails and about a dozen barrels of linseed in a damaged state.
Source: LL, No. 16,456, London, Wednesday, January 9 1867.
Inverness, 8th Jan. There are about 300 barrels of damaged linseed in the bottom of the SISTERS, McKenzie, from Riga to Londonderry, which was burnt in the night of 3rd Jan., at Loch Eil.
Source: LL, No. 16,457, London, Thursday, January 10 1867.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11166).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of linseed: date of loss cited as 3 January 1867). Sisters: this vessel caught fire at anchor, and [was] beached at Loch Eil, near Corpach. Capt. McKenzie.
Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1865. 153grt. Length: 28m. Beam: 7m.
(Location of loss cited as N56 51.0 W5 10.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
