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Loss
Date 26 August 1811
Event ID 579211
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/579211
The LORD DALKEITH, from Pictow to Dumfries, was totally wrecked near Dumfries 26th ult. Nearly the whole of the cargo saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 4594, London, Tuesday September 3 1811.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5708).
(Classified as galliot, with cargo of timber: date of loss cited as 20 August 1811). Lord Dalkeith: this vessel was wrecked on Robin Rigg Bank.
Registration: Dumfries.
(Location of loss cited as N54 45 W3 40).
I G Whittaker 1998.
