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Loss
Date 24 January 1770
Event ID 587179
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/587179
'Within the very same place where the Spanish ship [NS14SE 8001] went down, a fine vessel belonging to Glasgow, the richest that ever was fitted out from this country, and the property of Glassford and Company, was also lost, in the spring of the year 1770. This disaster was occasioned, not by stress of weather, but through the inadvertency of the ship's company, in allowing the vessel to drift too far in during night, ere the light-house was perceived, and in endeavouring to put her about, she missed stays, and went upon the rocks.'
OSA 1794.
(Classified as 'West-Indiaman' with a general cargo: date of loss cited as 24 January 1770). Lady Margaret: this vessel was wrecked at Portencross. 'Same spot as the Spanish Armada galleon'. Capt. Kippen.
Registration: Glasgow. Built 1769.
(Location of loss cited as N55 42.5 W4 53.33).
I G Whittaker 1998.
