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Loss
Date 18 October 1884
Event ID 626457
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/626457
18 October 1884, CRAIGFORTH, 15 yrs old, Leith registered, Lloyd's A1, last surveyed 8/83, iron steamship, Master W. Sutherland, Owner R. Slimen, Leith. Departed Borderi, Iceland for Leith carrying sheep, ponies and one passenger. Wind SSW 4. Stranded at Rosehearty, Aberdeenshire.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1884-85 (1887 [C.5094] LXXIV.247).
CRAIGFORTH (s). Fraserburgh, Oct. 18. The steamer CRAIGFORTH, ashore near Rosehearty, is already holed about the forerigging, and, considering the awkward place she lies in, if she is go off it will be both with difficulty and expense.
Source: Maritime Intelligence, Shipping & Mercantile Gazette and LL, No. 14,718, London, Tuesday October 21 1884
CRAIGFORTH (s). Fraserburgh, Oct. 27. During a very heavy gale, lasting from the afternoon of Oct. 25 till this morning, the boisterous seas completely broke up the hull of the CRAIGFORTH (s), of Leith, lying on the strand four miles W from here. The stores and materials previously landed, as well as the wreck as it now lies, are to be sold by auction at an early date.
Source: Maritime Intelligence, Shipping & Mercantile Gazette and LL, No. 14,725, London, Wednesday October 29 1884.
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1850).
(Classified as iron steamship, with cargo of sheep and ponies: date of loss cited as 18 October 1884). Craigforth: this vessel stranded East of Rosehearty light[house]. Capt. Sutherland.
Registration: Leith. Bult 1869. 1111grt. Length: 70m. Beam: 9m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 42.00 W2 5.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
