Loss

Date 4 April 1849

Event ID 636542

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/636542

Aberdeen, 7th April. The OLIVE, Toogoose, of Goole, from Hull to Stonehaven, in being assisted into that port 4th inst., in a leaky state, struck against the South Pier, and is expected to become a wreck: the cargo will be saved: two of the men rendering assistance were drowned.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,937, London, Monday April 9 1849.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8497).

(Classified as schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 4 April 1849). Olive: this vessel was wrecked near [the] South Pier, Stonehaven. Capt. Targoose.

Registration: Goole. Built 1848.

(Location of loss cited as N56 57.67 W2 11.75).

I G Whittaker 1998.