Account of the Skerryvore lighthouse : $b with notes on the illumination of lighthousesStevenson, Alan
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Account of the Skerryvore lighthouse : $b with notes on the illumination of lighthouses
Stevenson, Alan
Skerryvore Lighthouse (Hebrides, Scotland)
1820. _A Sloop_, M‘Donald, master, of 50 tons, lost in Reef Bay,
Tyree; crew saved.
1820. Ship, Masters, of Port-Glasgow, Martin, master, of 700 tons,
foundered off Skerryvore Rocks, and came ashore at Clate Hynish,
in Tyree; crew saved.
1821. Sloop, Catharine, M‘Rae, master lost; crew saved.
1821. _A Sloop_, of 60 tons, lost off Hough; master and three men
drowned.
1825. Sloop, Dan of Campbelltown, M‘Innes, master, of 50 tons, lost;
crew saved.
1828. Sloop, Delight, of 70 tons, Stevenson, Master, lost.
1828. _An Irish Schooner_ of 100 tons, Montgomery, master, lost off
Hough; crew saved.
1828. Jane of Sligo, Collins, master, lost off Balaphuil.
1829. Van Scapan of Stockholm, Fisherton, master, of 700 tons, lost
off Hough; fourteen people drowned.
1834. Confidence of Dundee, Wesley, master, lost off Hough; crew
saved.
1834. _A Schooner_ of 70 tons, lost; three men drowned.
1835. Peggy, Bitters, master, of 500 tons, lost off Beist, Tyree; crew
saved.
1841. April 2. Majestic of North Shields, Tait, master, of 400 tons,
foundered _by a sea_ off Boinshly Rock, and came ashore at Gott
Bay; captain and four men washed overboard and drowned, and the
mate and one seaman had their legs broken when the vessel was
struck by the sea.
1842. Fleurs of Liverpool, Thomson, master, of 300 tons, lost off
Kennavarah; crew saved.
1842. March 14. Two deck beams, a knee, and some pieces of deck-plank
of a _North American built vessel_, came ashore at Clate Hynish.
1842. _A Barra Boat_ wrecked, and four corpses washed ashore; two men,
a woman and a child.
1842. Pieces of wreck were seen in the Sound of Coll, and at the same
time the shores of Tyree were strewed with candles, mostly of
wax, supposed to be altar candles for the West Indies.
1843. September 2. The Prussian Barque Formosa, of 326 tons, P. R.
Reick, master, lost off Hough; two seamen drowned.
1844. December 1. The Hull of _a Sloop_ of about 70 tons, was washed
ashore off Clate Hynish. The Hull was very much broken up by
being in contact with the rocks; and one of the planks,
apparently off the taffrail, had the words “Port of Dundee”
lettered upon it; the crew supposed to be all drowned.
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