Loss

Date 24 January 1857

Event ID 639286

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/639286

Montrose, 25th Jan. The SOUTH ESK, Reid, from Gothenburg to this port, with battens, got on the rocks in the Ness [Scurdie Ness] yesterday, and it is feared will break up next tide, as it is blowing hard from the N.E., with a heavy sea: cargo and materials being landed at low water, and expected to be all saved.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 13,361, London, Monday January 26 1857.

Montrose, 30th Jan. The SOUTH ESK, Reid, of and for this port from Gothenburg, which got on the rocks in the Ness [Scurdie Ness] 24th Jan., has become a total wreck: her materials have been sold, and the cargo saved, but very much damaged.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 13,366, London, Saturday January 31 1857.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9321).

(No classification specified: cargo cited as battens, and date of loss as 24 January 1857). South Esk: [this vessel was] wrecked on rocks in the Ness, Montrose. Capt. Reid.

Registration: Montrose.

(Location of loss cited as N56 43.00 W2 25.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.