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Loss
Date 24 August 1871
Event ID 615167
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/615167
24 August 1871, OSPRAY, of North Shields, 5 yrs old, SS, 59 tons, 7 crew, departed North Shields for Dundee, in ballast, foundered, total loss, 7 lives lost, wind WSW12, 3 miles E of St Andrews.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2416).
(Classified as steam tug, in ballast: date of loss cited as 24 August 1871). Ospray (Osprey?): this vessel foundered 3 miles E of St Andrews, [and] 2 miles off Broadhills. Capt. Edwards.
Registration: British. 59 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N56 21.50 W2 40.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
