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Loss
Date 6 October 1874
Event ID 578625
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/578625
Ardwell, Wigtownshire, 6th Oct., 5.30 p.m., the EARL ST VINCENT, of Liverpool, from Londonderry to Creetown, is ashore in South Ardwell bay, and will probably become a total wreck.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,864, London, Wednesday October 7 1874.
Stranraer, 6th Oct., the EARL ST VINCENT (brgtne.), Irving, from Londonderry to Creetown, in ballast, stranded in Ardwell bay, this morning: crew landed in ship's boat: vessel's keel nearly away, and bottom badly injured: weather stormy.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,865, London, Thursday October 8 1874.
Stranraer, 13th Oct., it is stated that the EARL ST VINCENT, Irving, from Londonderry to Creetown, which stranded in Ardwell bay, 6th Oct., is a total loss. [Record received incomplete].
NMJRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4152).
(Classified as wooden brigantine, in ballast: date of loss cited as 6 October 1874). Earl St Vencent: this vessel stranded on rocks in South Ardwell Bay. Capt. Irving.
Registration: Liverpool.
(Location of loss cited as N54 46.00 W5 0.17).
I G Whittaker 1998.
