Loss

Date 22 December 1870

Event ID 637223

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/637223

22 December 1870, SEREPTA, 6 yrs old, brig, 203 tons, 7 crew, departed Shields for Amble, in ballast, stranded, total loss, 3 lives lost, wind ESE7, Tod Head [Todhead], Kincardine, N.B.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2406).

(Classified as brig, in ballast: date of loss cited as 22 December 1870). Serepta (Sarepta?): this vessel was wrecked at Tod Head. Capt. Mann.

Registration: Amble. 203nrt.

(Location of loss cited as N56 53.00 W2 12.50).

I G Whittaker 1998.