Loss

Date 31 May 1882

Event ID 580876

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/580876

31 May 1882, BANSHEE, age unknown, of Glasgow, wooden wherry, 35 tons, 2 crew, Master W. M. Kerrol, Owner A. McNicol, Greenock, departed Glasgow for Inverary, carrying coal, wind calm, stranded, total loss, Skate Island, Loch Fyne, Argyllshire.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3267).

(Classified as wooden wherry, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 31 May 1882). Banshee: this vessel stranded on Skate Island. Capt. Kerrol.

Registration: Glasgow. 35 tons (unspecified).

(Location of loss cited as N55 51.0 W5 18.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.