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Loss
Date 16 August 1857
Event ID 587599
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/587599
Bowmore, 17th Aug. The THOMAS (ship), of St. John, NB, from Greenock, for Halifax, went on shore, last night, on the Rhins [Rhinns] of Islay, and it is feared she will become a total wreck: crew saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 13,537, London, Thursday August 20 1857.
Islay, 20th Aug. [recd., 20th, per E.T., at 11.45]. It is feared that the cargo of the THOMAS, from the Clyde to Halifax which went ashore at Islay 16th Aug., will be lost.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 13,537, London, Thursday August 20 1857.
Coultorsay, Islay, 24th Aug. The THOMAS, from the Clyde to Halifax, N.S., which went ashore on the Rhyns [Rhinns] of Islay, 16th Aug., has gone to pieces. Most of the cargo may probably be saved. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9401).
(Classified as wooden barque, with cargo of railway locomotives: date of loss cited as 16 August 1857). Thomas: this vessel was wrecked at Orsay Light. Capt. Hall.
Registration: St Johns, N[ew] B[runswick]. 765 nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N55 40.32 W6 30.87).
I G Whittaker 1998.
