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Loss
Date 14 February 1910
Event ID 575520
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/575520
Castor: [max. date] 1910.
Built 1908. From Geestemunde to the Iceland fishing. Lost with all hands .
Archive Ref: SN 12/3/1910 p. 4 col. 5 & 19/2/1910 p. 4 col. 6; OH 16/3/1910 p. 4 col. 3; RSB
Source: Shetland Archive Service
MS/3025, no. 914.
(Classified as steel steamship, in ballast: registration number cited as PG 142, and date of loss as 14 February 1910). Castor: this steel vessel stranded on the N end of Fugla Stack, West Burra. (8/3/1910 on Burra?)
Registration: Geestemunde. Built 1908. 320nrt.
(Locattion of loss cited as N60 3.33 W1 21.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
