Maritime record MHG46455 - Roskva: North Sea

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Operational Area CAITHNESS SUTHERLAND AND EASTER ROSS

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NMRS Report: (07/10/2003)
ND12SW 8002 unlocated

NLO: Berriedale [name: ND 121 229].

25 February 1896 ROSKVA, 20 years, of Norway. Wood brig. 235 ton. 7 men. Master A. Berntson. Owner Gjerloff, Krageroe, Norway. Krageroe to Boulogne. Ice. Wind 10. Off Berriedale, Caithness.
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. 970).

(Classified as wooden brig, with cargo of ice; date of loss cited as 25 February 1896). This vessel stranded off Berriedale.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The suggestion that this vessel stranded (rather than foundered) remains unverified.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 October 2003.
I G Whittaker 1998.



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  • <1> Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 250973.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2009 3:19PM

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