Loss
Date 4 December 1925
Event ID 588915
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
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SERB, sank at the entrance to Lagavulin on 4 December 1925, with a cargo of barley. The vessel is a total loss. Wreck sold for ?20 and ?15 for cargo.
Source: Glasgow University Business Archives, UGD95/1/4 Glasgow Salvage Association, minutes 7 January 1926.
Horizontal Datum = OGB
Surveying Details
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24 February 1975. A small steamship, the SERB, was reported wrecked on Goill Rock, Islay in 55 37 39N, 006 06 21W. It was probably a Clyde puffer.
Report by P L Sellars, 11 February 1975
Hydrographic Office 1995.
(Classified as steel steamship, with cargo of barley: date of loss cited as 4 December 1925). Serb: this vessel sank at the entrance to Lagavoulin [Lagavulin].
Registration: Glasgow. Built 1916. 95grt.
(Location of loss cited as N55 37.65 W6 6.35).
I G Whittaker 1998.