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Loss
Date 14 February 1929
Event ID 628530
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/628530
Steam Trawler CARMANIA II, 107 ton, of Grimsby, master Loftis. Bound from Iceland to Grimsby. Lost 14 Feb 1929, 3.30am. Kirk Rocks, Hoy Sound. Snow showers. Cause of wreck not known. Crew 12, all saved. Cargo fish.
[Contemporary] source: Sule Skerry Lighthouse Shore Station, Stromness, Orkney.
(Classified as steel, steam trawler: no cargo specified, but former name cited as Carmania, registration as GY 268, and date of loss as 14 February 1929). Carmania II: this vessel stranded on Kirk Rocks. Capt. Loftus.
Registration: Grimsby. Built 1907. 250grt. Length: 40m. Beam: 7m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 57.0 W3 20.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
