Loss

Date 25 December 1924

Event ID 603352

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/603352

MARJORIE SEED, stranded at 6pm 26 December 1924 at Lady Isle, Troon. Diver and chartered lighter STARLIGHT attended but the vessel had meantime gone down and all hatches submerged and salvage not recommended.

Source: Glasgow University Business Archives, UGD95/1/4 Glasgow Salvage Association, minutes 8 Jan 1925.

(Classified as Cargo Ship, with cargo of coal and coke: former names cited as Baron Cathcart, Amphion, Westhampton, and Elli Westhampton, and date of loss as 25 December 1924). Marjorie Seed: this vessel stranded off the N side of Lady Isle.

Registration: Newcastle. Built 1907. 1860grt. Length: 83m. Beam: 12m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 32.15 W4 43.45).

I G Whittaker 1998.