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Loss
Date 14 December 1870
Event ID 611320
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/611320
15 December 1870, EARL OF SEAFIELD, sloop, 30 tons, 3 crew, unknown departure or destination, carrying grain, stranded, total loss, 3 lives lost, wind W10, quarter mile from the Coast of Leven, Fife.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1870 (1871 [C.425] LXI.765).
Leith, 16th Dec. The EARL OF SEAFIELD (sloop), of Macduff, Noble, from Fraserburgh to Leith, was driven ashore during a gale, on the night of 14th Dec., on Leven sands: boats and five of the crew lost.
Source, LL, No. 17,681, London, Saturday, December 17 1870.
Leven, Kirkcaldy, 16th Dec. The EARL OF SEAFIELD, Noble, from Fraserburg to Leith, which stranded here 14th Dec., was boarded yesterday and found to [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2404).
(Classified as smack, with cargo of grain: date of loss cited as 14 December 1870). Earl of Seafield: this vessel stranded 0.25 mile[s] from Leven at Leven Creek. Capt. Noble.
Registration: Macduff. Built 1855. 33 tons burthern. Length: 14m. Beam: 4m.
(Location of loss cited as N56 12.00 W2 59.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
