Loss

Date 21 December 1854

Event ID 583597

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/583597

21 December 1854, VESPER, Lisbon to Glasgow, oranges, wind NW force 9, wrecked. Toward Point, Firth of Clyde, by stress of weather. Lloyds List. Shipping and Mercantile Gazette.

Source: PP Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of UK 1854 (1854-55 (75) XXXIV.359)

Greenock, 19th Jan. The VESPER, from Lisbon, which went ashore at Toward Point 21st Dec., has been condemned.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 12,737, London, Monday January 22 1855.

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 571).

(No classification specified: cargo cited as oranges, and date of loss as 21 December 1854). Vesper: this vessel was wrecked at Toward Point.

(Location of loss cited as N55 52.0 W4 58.50).

I G Whittaker 1998.