Loss

Date 24 March 1890

Event ID 605748

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/605748

24 March 1890. GLENHEAD. 3 years of Glasgow. Iron steamship. 34 ton. 4 men. Master W. McCulloch. Owner J.P. Turnbull, Glasgow. Glasgow to Campbeltown. Coal. Wind SE4. 1 mile NE of Dunbar lighthouse.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1889-90 (1890-91 [C.6468] LXXVI.485).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1496).

(Classified as iron steamship, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 24 March 1890). Glenhead: this vessel foundered 1 mile NE of Devaar [Davaar] Light. Capt. McCulloch.

Registration: Glasgow, Built 1887. 53grt. Length: 20m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 27.20 W5 31.17).

I G Whittaker 1998.