Crofton Hall
Sailing Barque · United Kingdom · Lost 1898 · Nova Scotia & Sable Island
The British barque Crofton Hall stranded on Sable Island in fog in 1898, and her crew was rescued by breeches buoy.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
Crofton Hall was a British sailing barque bound from Dundee, Scotland, to New York. On 17 April 1898 she stranded in thick fog about three miles from the east spit of Sable Island. The island's lifesaving station rescued the entire crew, some by breeches buoy, and the ship became a total loss, one of the many wrecks recorded on Sable Island's shifting sandbars.
Vessel
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- Sail, barque rig
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Loss
- April 17, 1898
- Grounding
- About three miles from the east spit, Sable Island, Nova Scotia
- Atlantic Ocean, Sable Island
- Dundee, Scotland → New York, United States
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The Wreck Today
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- Total loss
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Position
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- Sable Island, Nova Scotia
Evidence
Overall confidence: Partially documented (65/100)
Builder, tonnage, and dimensions of this vessel are not established in the sources reviewed.
Parks Canada, Sable Island Sable Treasures exhibit
Voyage, date, location and rescue details.
