Loss

Date 22 March 1870

Event ID 631373

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

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22 March 1870, FLOWERS, 6 yrs old, lugger, 15 tons, 9 crew, departed Gardenstown, for fishing, in ballast, stranded, total loss, 1 life lost, wind N9, entrance to Gardenstown Harbour, Banff.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2398).

(Classified as lugger, in ballast: date of loss cited as 22 March 1870). Flowers: this vessel stranded at the entrance to Gardenstown harbour.

Built 1864. 15nrt.

(Location of loss cited as N57 40.50 W2 20.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.