Loss
Date 9 September 1870
Event ID 586965
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/586965
9 September 1870, SIR COLIN, 12 yrs old, brigantine, 106 tons, 5 crew, departed Ballina for Troon, in ballast, stranded, partial loss, 1 life lost, wind SW11, North side of Losset [Lossit] Bay, W. side of Islay.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1870 (1871 [C.425] LXI.765).
Bowmore, Islay, 9th Sept. The SIR COLIN (brigtne.), of Larne, McCart, from Ballina to Troon, light, has been wrecked at Lopit [Lossit] bay: one of crew drowned: the materials of the vessel will be saved. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2401).
(Classified as wooden brigantine: no cargo specified but date of loss cited as 9 September 1870). Sir Colin: this vessel was wrecked at Lossit Point, Islay. Capt. McCart. All gone?
Registration: Larne. Built 1858. 106nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N55 43.0 W6 31.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.