Archaeology Notes

Event ID 742054

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS16NW 8022 c. 135 670

N55 51.6 W4 58.8

NLO: Toward Point [name: NS 135 670].

21 December 1854, VESPER, Lisbon to Glasgow, oranges, wind NW force 9, wrecked. Toward Point, Firth of Clyde, by stress of weather. Lloyds List. Shipping and Mercantile Gazette.

Source: PP Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of UK 1854 (1854-55 (75) XXXIV.359)

Greenock, 19th Jan. The VESPER, from Lisbon, which went ashore at Toward Point 21st Dec., has been condemned.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 12,737, London, Monday January 22 1855.

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 571).

(No classification specified: cargo cited as oranges, and date of loss as 21 December 1854). Vesper: this vessel was wrecked at Toward Point.

(Location of loss cited as N55 52.0 W4 58.50).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Toward Point Lighthouse (NS16NW 12.00) is at NS 13623 67226.

This vessel evidently stranded.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 20 February 2007.