Loss

Date 1 October 1894

Event ID 574921

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/574921

FOX, 40 ton, lugger, master Alex McMutrie, of Irvine. Bound from Carron Loch(?) to Irvine. Cargo lime. All crew saved. Lost 1 Oct 1894, 8.30pm. Girvan, 6 miles from Turnberry Lighthouse. Crew saw and recognised light. Wind south east light airs, haze. Cause of wreck, lime taking fire, ship put on sands. Total wreck.

[Contemporary] source: Lightkeeper, Turnberry Lighthouse.

(Classified as wooden ketch, with cargo of limeshell: date of loss cited as 1 October 1894). Fox: this vessel burnt to the waterline between Maidens Rock and Corsewall Point. [Capt.] McMurtrie.

Registration: Irvine. Built 1866. 23grt. Length: 14m. Beam: 4m.

(Location of loss cited as N54 55.0 W5 25.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.