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Loss
Date 18 December 1873
Event ID 620269
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/620269
Dundee, 18th Dec., a small sloop from Portmahomack, trading in coal between Bora [Brora] and Dornoch, was dashed ashore during the gale of 15th Dec., a little to the west of Tain, and wrecked: crew saved.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,617, London, Saturday December 20 [1873].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4027).
(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 15 December 1873). Unknown: this vessel was wrecked a little West of Tain.
Registration: Portmahomack.
(Location of loss cited as N57 50.00 W4 5.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
