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.