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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.
