Loch Moidart

A four-masted iron ship built in 1881 by Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow. Dimensions: 87,57×12,95×7,31 meters [287'4"×42'6"×24'0"] and tonnage 2081 GRT and 2000 NRT. Rigged with royal sails over double top and single topgallant sails. Sistership to the same owner's fourmast barque Loch Torridon (1881).

1881 September: Launched at the shipyard of Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow, for Aitken, Lilburn & Co., Glasgow. Captain Reid.
1890 January 26: Stranded at Callantsoog, The Netherlands, and capsized. On voyage from Pisagua to Hamburg with a nitrate cargo.

Updated 1997-01-29 by Lars Bruzelius.

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