Loss

Date 17 September 1880

Event ID 575931

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/575931

17 September 1880, BLACK DIAMOND, 50 yrs old, of Carlisle, wooden flat, 45 tons, 2 crew, Master and Owner D. Messenger, Maryport, departed Maryport for Gatehouse-of-Fleet, Co. Kirkcudbright, carrying coal, wind SW7, stranded, total loss, Kirkdale Burn, Co. Kirkcudbright.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1880-81 (1882 [C.3177] LXIII.251).

Dumfries, Sept. 25, BLACK DIAMOND, flat, 45 tons, Messenger, from Maryport for Gatehouse of Fleet, Kirkcudbright (coal), lost mainsail Sept. 17 in Wigtown Bay, and drifted ashore the same evening near Kirkdale Burn on very rocky bottom. She shortly afterwards broke up and became a total wreck: crew [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3042).

(Classified as wooden flat, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 17 September 1880). Black Diamond: this vessel stranded [at the] Kirkdale Burn, Kirkcudbright. Capt. Messenger.

Registration: Carlisle. Built 1829. 45grt. Length: 12m. Beam: 3m.

(Location of loss cited as N54 50.75 W4 19.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.