Loss

Date 11 December 1888

Event ID 579347

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/579347

11 December 1888. JASPER. 8 years of Glasgow. Lloyds 100A1. Survey 10/87. Iron steamship. 118 ton. 11 men. Master D. McNicol. Owner W. Robertson, Glasgow. Workington to Glasgow. Steel rails. 11 dead. Isle of Whithorn.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1888-89 (1890 [C.6115] LXVI.543).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1612).

Classified as iron steamship, with cargo of iron rails: date of loss cited as 11 December 1888). Jasper: this vessel foundered in Port Yerrock Bay [Portyerrock Bay]. Capt. McNicol.

Registration: Glasgow. Built 1880. 279grt. Length: 44m. Beam: 7m.

(Location of loss cited as N54 44.23 W4 21.05).

I G Whittaker 1998.