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Originally Posted by Morph
I could be way off the mark here, but I found records of a vessel which sank in 1885 (sail and steam powered) after it ran aground hitting rocks at 'Bordicar point' (possibly wrong spelling). It was the SS Ferrifer.
I don't know if it could have been towed North and broken up or if it just sank.
Could be a coincidence, but it was carrying 140 tons of pig iron ingots at the time!
Here is the link to the wreck site if anyone fancies a look. Unfortunately you have to pay for most of the information it links to, but the wreck report is free
https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?238484 |
Could be. But looking in the newspaper archive I get the thousand yard stare there are that many ships lost on our patch. Years ago when I did
that lost ships page the local newspaper archive was not online. I thought back then well, I bet I've got most of them....Wrong...I'd just scratched the surface!
I think the prevailing current is north to south if that's any help.