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Ansgarius: Louther Skerry, Pentland Skerries, Pentland Firth
Steamship (19th Century)
Site Name Ansgarius: Louther Skerry, Pentland Skerries, Pentland Firth
Classification Steamship (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Loather Rock; Lother Rock; Louther Rock; North Sea; Ansgarius
Canmore ID 221985
Site Number ND47NE 8025
NGR ND 479 772
NGR Description ND c. 479 772
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Maritime - Orkney
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND47NE 8025 c. 479 772
N58 40.8 W2 53.9
NLO: Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81]
Pentland Skerries [name centred ND 470 775]
Louther Skerry [name: ND 479 772].
Not to be confused with ND37NE 8021.
30 August 1895 ANSGARIUS, 5 years, of Norway. Wood steamship. 310 ton. 13 men. Owner E. Berentsen, Stavanger, Norway. Glasgow to Christiania [Oslo]. Coal. 2 dead. Wind NW6. Lother Rock, Pentland Firth.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1895-96 (1897 [C.8453] LXXVIII.693).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 972).
(Classified as wooden steamship, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 30 August 1915). Ansgarius: this vessel stranded on Lother Rock [Louther Skerry]. See 1910.
Registration: Norwegian. Built 1890. 356 tons [unspecified]. Length: 48m. Beam: 8m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 44.0 W2 58.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The inclusion of this wreck by Larn and Larn within their section DC ('North-east Scotland') is anomalous. The Pentland Skerries fall within the administrative area of Orkney, and this wreck is assigned accordingly to the quasi-administrative area of Maritime - Orkney.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 September 2002.
R and B Larn 1998.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 4459
Name : ANSGARIUS
Latitude : 584400
Longitude : 25800
Date Built : 1890
Registration : NORWEGIAN
Type : SS (WOOD)
Tonnage : 356
Length : 48
Beam : 8
Draught : 5m
Loss Day : 30
Loss Month : 8
Loss Year : 1895
Comment : Stranded Lother Rock. See 1910
Cargo : COAL
