Loss

Date 9 December 1867

Event ID 570629

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/570629

Scrabster, 10th Dec. The HOPE (schr.), of Leith, got on Dunnet sands, in Thurso [Dunnet?] bay, yesterday, and it is likely to become a total wreck: crew saved.

Source: LL, No. 16,745, London, Friday, December 13 1867.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11324).

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of pavement: date of loss cited as 9 December 1867). Hope: this vessel was wrecked on Dunnet Sands, or at Burn of Garth, Castletown. Capt. Georgeson.

Registration: Leith. Built 1837. 56grt. Length: 20m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N58 35.75 W3 22.33).

I G Whittaker 1998.