Loss

Date 3 February 1893

Event ID 580920

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/580920

3 February 1893. LOUISE. 23 years of Glasgow. Iron steam lighter. 29 ton. 3 men. Master J. Steel. Owner J. Hay, Glasgow. Rothesay to Falkirk. Tar. 2 dead. Wind SW4. 1½ miles SE of Craigmore Pier, Bute.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1892-93 (1894 [C.7324] LXXVI.505).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1270).

(Classified as iron steam lighter, with cargo of tar: date of loss cited as 3 February 1893). Louise: this vessel foundered off Craigmore Pier. Capt. Steel.

Registration: Glasgow. Built 1870. 43grt. Length: 20m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 51.0 W5 1.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.