Loss

Date 25 May 1855

Event ID 617247

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/617247

Inverness, 31st May. The FORTUNE (smack), of and from this port, for Wick, foundered on [off] the coast of Caithness on the 25th May: crew saved.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 12,850, London, Tuesday June 5 1855.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9126).

(Classified as smack: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 25 May 1855). Fortune: this vessel foundered off the coast of Caithness. Near Lybster? Pentland Firth?

Registration: Inverness. Built 1853. 17 tons burthern. Length: 11m. Beam: 3m.

(Location of loss cited as N58 30.00 W3 0.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.