Loss

Date 30 September 1895

Event ID 583721

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/583721

29 September 1895. WALLACHIA, 12 years, of Glasgow. Lloyds +100A1. Survey 9/95. Iron steamship. 1077 ton. 22 men. Master R. Walton. Owner Burrell and Son, Glasgow. Glasgow to Trinidad. General and 1 passenger. Collided Norwegian steamship FLOS. Calm. About ? mile SE of Toward Point, Argyllshire.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and [record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1014).

WALLACHIA, sunk 30 Sep 1895 off Toward Point after collision. Inspection to be made by diver.

Source: Glasgow University Business Archives, UGD95/1/1 Glasgow Salvage Association, minutes 7 Oct 1895.

(Classified as iron steamship, with cargo of beer and chemicals: date of loss cited as 29 September 1895). Wallachia: this vessel was in collision and sank 0.75 miles SE of Toward (Flos). Capt. Walton.

Registration: Glasgow. Built 1883. 1724grt. Length: 79m. Beam: 11m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 51.70 W4 57.17).

I G Whittaker 1998.