Loss

Date 19 November 1875

Event ID 627369

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/627369

19 November 1875, TOWN OF LIVERPOOL, 40 yrs old, of Banff, wooden smack, 36 tons, 3 crew, Master and Owner K. Gordon, Macduff, departed Middlesborough for Macduff carrying coal, wind NE11, stranded 2.5 miles E. of Buckie, Banffshire.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1875 - 76 (1876 [C.1632] LXVII.191).

Buckie, 19th Nov., 7.57 p.m., the TOWN OF LIVERPOOL (sloop) (No. 17,995), is ashore at Strathline, and likely to be a total wreck: she is a vessel of 36 tons, bound from Stockton, with coal.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,213, London, Saturday November 20 [1875].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2601).

(Classified as sloop, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 19 November 1875). Town of Liverpool: this vessel stranded at Strathline (Buckie?) and is expected to be come a wreck. ON: 17,995.

Registration: Banff.

(Location of loss cited as N57 41.50 W2 55.67).

I G Whittaker 1998.