Loss
Date 24 February 1867
Event ID 570333
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/570333
Cromarty, 24th Feb. The EXPRESS (sloop), of Wick, with herrings, and the LIFEBOAT (schr.), of Scarboro', from Dingwall to Newcastle, with staves, were stranded near here this evening: crews saved.
Source: LL, No. 16,497, London, Tuesday, February 26 1867.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11206).
(Classified as sloop, with cargo of herring: date of loss cited as 24 February 1867). Express: this vessel stranded near Cromarty. All gone? See Express May 1867?
Registration: Wick. Built 1861. Length: 24m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 41.00 W4 1.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.