Loss

Date 21 October 1875

Event ID 636742

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/636742

21 October 1875, JOHN AND ISABELLA, 27 yrs old, of S. Shields, wooden brig, 204 tons, 7 crew, Owner G. Wardell, Sunderland, departed Gefle for Sunderland, carrying timber, stranded, total loss, 7 lives lost, wind SSE10, near Dunnottar Castle, Kincardineshire.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1875 - 76 (1876 [C.1632] LXVII.191).

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2650).

Stonehaven, 22nd Oct., 1.15 p.m., the JOHN & ISABELLA (brig)(Off. No., 24,737), of South Shields, is a total wreck at Dunotter [Dunnottar] Castle: crew all drowned.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,189, London, Saturday October 23 1875

Aberdeen, 23rd Oct., 11.55 a.m., the brig JOHN & ISABELLA, of Sunderland, supposed timber laden, has been wrecked near Stonehaven: crew supposed lost: one body cast ashore.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,190, London, Monday October 25 [1875].

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4243).

(Classified as wooden brig, with cargo of timber: date of loss cited as 21 October 1875). John & Isabella: this vessel was wrecked near Dunottar Castle. Capt. Street.

Registration: South Shields. Built 1848. 204grt. Length: 26m. Beam: 8m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 56.75 W2 11.67).

I G Whittaker 1998.