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Loss
Date 8 April 1879
Event ID 882302
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/882302
8 April 1879, DELPHIN, 79 yrs old, of Norway, wooden brig, 136 tons, 6 crew, Master P. Pedersen, Owner H. Dahl, Tonsberg, Norway, departed Frederickstadt for Grangemouth, carrying wood, 2 lives lost (Master and Mate), wind E7, stranded, total loss, near the entrance to the R. Tay, Forfarshire, exact spot unknown.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1878 - 79 (1880 [C.2519] LXVI.47).
Dundee, April 9, 11.5 a.m., DELPHIN brig, of Tonsberg, from Frederikstadt for Grangemouth (battens and staves), went ashore last night at entrance to Tay, and immediately broke up: four of crew landed on deckhouse at Monifieth: [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2916).
(Classified as wooden brig, with cargo of wood: date of loss cited as 8 April 1879). Delphin: [this vessel] stranded near [the] entrance to [the] River Tay. Capt. Pedersen.
Registration: Norwegian. Built 1800. 136 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N56 27.50 W2 47.00).
I G Whitaker 1998.
