Loss

Date 5 July 1876

Event ID 625725

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/625725

5 July 1876, MAID OF MORAY, 34 yrs old, of Troon, wooden schooner, 76 tons, 2 crew, Master J. Currie, Owner H. Jamieson, Troon, departed Cromarty for Sunderland, in ballast, wind WSW7, stranded N. side of Burghead Harbour, Morayshire.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1876 - 77 (1877 [C.1891] LXXV.181).

Lossiemouth, 5th July, 7.30 p.m., the MAID OF MORAY, in ballast, stranded at Burghead at 3 p.m., today: crew saved by rocket apparatus: vessel expected to get off tomorrow.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,407, London, Thursday July 6 1876.

Lossiemouth, 29th July, the MAID OF MORAY, of Troon, that stranded 5th July, at Burghead, has been sold as a total wreck, and is to be broken up.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,429, London, Tuesday August 1 1876.

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2675).

(Classified as wooden schooner, in ballast: date of loss cited as 5 July 1876). Maid of Moray: this vessel stranded on the North side of Burghead harbour. Capt. Currie.

Registration: Troon. Built 1842. 82grt. Length: 20m. Beam: 6m.

(Location of loss cited as N57 42.33 W3 30.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.