Loss

Date 18 March 1855

Event ID 636707

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/636707

Aberdeen, 19th Mar. The DILIGENCE (sloop), of Grangemouth, was driven on shore yesterday morning about half-a-mile South of Stonehaven, and has become a complete wreck: crew saved.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 12,786, London, Tuesday March 20 1855.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9115).

(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 18 March 1855). Diligence: this vessel was wrecked 0.5 mile S of Stonehaven.

Registration: Grangemouth. Built 1803. 40 tons burthern.

(Location of loss cited as N56 57.00 W2 10.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.