Loss
Date 2 April 1880
Event ID 617918
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/617918
2 April 1880, FAIR WIND, 17 yrs old, of Aberdeen, wooden smack, 19 tons, 3 crew, Master J. Sutherland, Owner J. Ballie, Dunbeath, Caithness, departed Portmahomack, Ross, for Dunbeath, Caithness, carrying lime, wind SSE, stranded, total loss, Berridale [Berriedale], Caithness.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1879-80 (1881 [C.2906] LXXXII.889).
Wick, April 8, the FAIR WIND smack, of Aberdeen (lime), has been run ashore near Dunbeath.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,579, London, Monday April 12 1880.
Wick, April 9, FAIRWIND, from Lossiemouth for Dunbeath, which sprung a leak and was run ashore at Berriedale, has become a wreck.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,580, London, Tuesday April 13 1880.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3002).
(Classified as wooden smack, with cargo of lime; date of loss cited as 2 April 1880). Fair Wind: this vessel stranded at Berriedale. Capt. Sutherland.
Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1863. 19grt. Length: 12m. Beam: 4m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 11.00 W3 29.67).
I G Whittaker 1998.