Loss
Date 17 October 1897
Event ID 603036
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/603036
17 October 1897 GRACE DARLING, 30 years, of Fleetwood. Wood ketch. 43 ton, 3 men. Master C. Dempsey. Owner A. Hull, Belfast. Belfast to Loch Fyne. Ballast. Wind S9. Carradale Beach, Cantyre.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1897-98 (1899 [C.9384] LXXXVII.409).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 801).
(Classified as wooden ketch, in ballast: date of loss cited as 17 October 1897). Grace Darling: this vessel stranded at Carradale beach. Capt. Dempsey.
Registration: Fleetwood. Built 1867. 43 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N55 34.50 W5 28.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
