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Loss

Date 5 May 1898

Event ID 636634

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/636634

5 May 1898 OXFORD EIGAT [EIGHT], 28 years, of Scarborough, wood ketch, 70 ton, 4 men. Master J. Lamb. Owner C. Wilkinson and others, Sunderland. Bridgeness to Stonehaven. Coal. Wind NW2. Entrance to Stonehaven Harbour, Kincardineshire.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1897-98 (1899 [C.9384] LXXXVII.409).

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 835).

(Classified as wooden ketch, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 5 May 1898). Oxford Eight: [this vessel] stranded [at the] entrance to Stonehaven harbour. Capt. Lamb.

Registration: Scarborough. Built 1870. 70 tons [unspecified].

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

I G Whittaker 1998.

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