Loss

Date 10 October 1884

Event ID 640446

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/640446

10 October 1884, STORM KING, 18 yrs old, registered Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, wooden steam tug, 10 tons, 4 crew, Master S. L. Duncan, Owner J. Batey, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Departed Montrose for towing, in ballast. 2 lives lost. Wind N5. Stranded near Scordyness (Scurdie Ness) Lighthouse, Forfarshire.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1884-85 (1887 [C.5094] LXXIV.247).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1847).

(Classified as wooden steam tug, in ballast: date of loss cited as 10 October 1884). Storm King: [this vessel] stranded near Scurdyness [Scurdie Ness] Lighthouse (NO75NW 44.00). Capt. Duncan.

Registration: Newcastle. Built 1866. 10 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N56 42.00 W2 26.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.