Loss

Date 26 January 1868

Event ID 570705

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/570705

Stornoway, 27th Jan. The FLORA MACDONALD (schr.), of Appledore, McDonald, from Newcastle to Dublin, is a total wreck at the mouth of Loch Ewe: crew saved.

Source: LL, No. 16,786, London, Friday, January 31 1868.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11373).

(Classified as wooden schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 26 January 1868). Flora MacDonald: this vessel was wrecked at the entrance to Loch Ewe. Capt. MacDonald (McDonald?)

Registration: Perth. Built 1859. 99grt. Length: 25m. Beam: 6m.

(Location of loss cited as N57 52.0 W5 40.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.