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Loss
Date 26 February 1894
Event ID 589261
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/589261
26 February 1894, CAROLINE, 46 years, of Belfast. Wood barquentine. 165 ton. 6 men. Master M. Hurley. Owner J. Neill, Bangor, Co. Down. Belfast to Irvine. Grain. Wind SW10. North of Irvine Bar.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1893-94 (1895 [C.7858] LXXXVII.327).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1220).
(Classified as wooden barquentine., with cargo of grain: date of loss cited as 26 February 1894). Caroline: this vessel stranded North of Irvine Bar. Capt. Hurley.
Registration: Belfast. Built 1848. 165nrt. Length: 36m. Beam: 8m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 36.50 W4 42.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
