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.