Loss

Date 4 March 1881

Event ID 636396

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/636396

Stonehaven, March 4, 8.34 a.m., at 5.15 a.m. the screw steamer CORSAIR, Alloa, broke moorings, and drove on shore in [the] North Harbour: gale continues vessel will become total wreck: crew safe.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,859, London, Saturday March 5 1881.

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5098).

(Location of loss cited as 'Stonehaven, Beach').

R Larn and B Larn 1998.

(Classified as iron steamship: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as March 1881). This vessel was wrecked at Stonehaven harbour.

Registration: Alloa. Built 1867. 54grt. Length: 19m. Beam: 6m.

(Location cited as N56 58.00 W2 11.75).

I G Whittaker 1998.