Evidence Of Loss

Date 8 March 1871

Event ID 572529

Category Recording

Type Evidence Of Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/572529

NATION, 48 ton, schooner, master James Cowan. Bound from Londonderry to Irvine. Cargo ballast. Crew 4, all saved. Lost 7 Mar 1871, midnight. Laggan Strand (Laggan Bay), 8 miles from Loch Indaal Lighthouse. Wind westerly. Cause of wreck 'Stress of weather and main boom breaking'.

'Driven into Laggan bay, the vessel drop(ped) its anchors but was driven on shore where she now lays at high water mark'.

[Contemporary] source: Loch Indaal Lighthouse.

Bowmore, 9th Mar. The NATIONS, Cowan, of and for Irvine, from Londonderry, in ballast, was driven on shore in Laggan bay, yesterday morning, but is as yet little damaged.

Source, LL, No. 17,755, London, Tuesday, March 14 1871.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11982).