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Loss
Date 22 October 1873
Event ID 617569
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/617569
Wick, 21st Oct., the ROSE (schr.) of Banff, from Tayport, with coal, before reported ashore at Lybster, is full of water, and it is thought she will become a total loss.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,568, London, Friday October 24 1873.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3999).
(Classified as wooden schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 22 October 1873). Rose: this vessel was wrecked at Lybster.
Registration: Banff. Built 1850. 39 grt. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 17.75 W3 17.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
