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Loss
Date 12 February 1856
Event ID 580872
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/580872
Greenock, 12th Feb. The BRANDON, (lighter) of Glasgow, was blown out of Tarbert Harbour, and wrecked at Skate Island: crew saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 13,067, London, Thursday February 14 1856.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9220).
(Classified as lighter: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 12 February 1856). Brandon: this vessel was wrecked on Skate Island, near Tarbert. (1854 Limerick Lighter I: 501nrt?)
(Location of loss cited as N55 51.00 W5 18.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
