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Loss
Date 3 February 1889
Event ID 604238
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/604238
3 February 1889. ACORN. 32 years of Greenock. Wood schooner. 50 ton. 3 men. Master A. Craig. Owner R.S. McMorland, Greenock. Glenarm to Irvine. Lime. Wind N10. Lamlash Bay, Firth of Clyde.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1888-89 (1890 [C.6115] LXVI.543).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1626).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of lime: date of loss cited as 3 February 1889). Acorn: this vessel stranded and caught fire at Kingscross, Lamlash [Bay]. Capt. Craig.
Registration: Greenock. Built 1857. 55grt. Length: 19m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 30.67 W5 4.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
