What is recorded here

Loch Sunart was a square-rigged sailing ship lost in 1879 after becoming fast upon a rock. Thomas Richard Pearce survived her wreck, adding one more maritime disaster to the young man’s already extraordinary record. The name connects a brutal ocean event to the human story of a captain shaped by repeated shipwrecks.

The official Northern Ireland wreck record identifies Loch Sunart as Square rigger. It was lost in 1879. Recorded condition: Fast upon rock.

The *Loch Sunart*, a square-rigged sailing vessel, was lost in 1879 when it struck rocks off the coast of Northern Ireland. It sank with no reported loss of life, and its remains are noted as "fast upon rock," indicating it was wrecked but not entirely broken up.

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