Loss

Date 15 February 1918

Event ID 578539

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/578539

(Location of wreckage cited as NX 741 443, '90 metres south of [the] Netherlaw Burn'). This vessel was one of the three tugs that stranded while towing the Russian cruiser Variag [NX19SW 8004] into the Clyde. She was the only vessel of the group that was not refloated, and was cut up for scrap in situ.

The bell from this vessel is held in Kirkcudbright Museum.

[Published photographs].

P C Miller 1992.

(Classified as iron tug: no cargo specified, but former name cited as President Ludwig, and date of loss as 15 February 1918). Ludgate: this vessel stranded at Abbey Burnfoot [Abbey Burn Foot].

Registration: British. Built 1892. 165grt. Length: 35m. Beam: 7m.

(Location cited as N54 46.50 W3 57.50).

I G Whittaker 1998.