Maritime record MWX1695 - Lord Duffus

Vessel drove ashore unseen at night, and by the time the wreck was found early next morning she was in the last stages of breaking up. The bodies of all six crew were recovered and placed in coffins laid out side by side in the small hut, previously used as the Lloyds Signal Station. (1)(4) Year Built: 1877 Builder: Duncan Where Built: Kingston Owner: Alex Marshall, Burghead, Elgin Master: A Z Speight Crew: 6 Crew Lost: 6 Date of Loss Qualifier: A Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck index: LR 1891 2 No 743(L)

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<1> Larn, Richard, 1992, United Kingdom shipwreck index, Extracted 23 November 1992 (Index). SWX5030.

<2> Board of Trade, 1895, Parliamentary papers 1895, Board of Trade Casualty Returns Vol 87, p142 (Monograph). SWX5136.

<3> Farr, Grahame, 1971, Wreck and rescue on the Dorset coast, p45 (Monograph). SWX1056.

<4> Larn, R, and Larn, B, 1995, Shipwreck index of the British Isles, volume 1 : Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset Section 6, Dorset (AJ) Vol 1 (Monograph). SWX4541.

<5> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 840 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 901215 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 22 2024 1:58PM