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Loss
Date 27 November 1898
Event ID 619689
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/619689
27 November 1898 PARAGON, of Grimsby, wood dandy, 90 ton, 10 men, master C. Slater, owner A. Culyer, Grimsby. Grimsby to fishing. Ballast. Struck floating wreckage wind ENE6. About 40 miles WNW of Kinnaird's [Kinnaird] Head, Aberdeenshire. Casualties involving total loss of vessel during year end 30 June 1899.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours, of UK July 1898-99 (1900 [Cd. 318] LXXVII.531).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 761).
(Classified as wooden dandy, in ballast: date of loss cited as 27 November 1898). Paragon: this vessel in collision with floating wreckage, and sank 40 miles WNW of Kinnaird Head. (Grimsby 1883?).
Registration: Peterhead. Built 1873. 106grt. Length: 25m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 56.00 W3 13.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
