European Drought / Mournhearth - All But a Hundred and Ten

This is the story of the merchant ship “The Copeland” which ran aground on the north west coast of Stroma and stuck fast damaging her keel and rupturing the ships bottom plates. All the passengers and crew reached land safely either in the Copeland’s own lifeboats or in one of the many small boats that were quickly on the scene from Stroma itself. The Copeland had left Reykjavik bound for Leith on 20th July, 1888 with a large general cargo and 482 ponies aboard Many of the ponies were also released to swim ashore but 110 of them, stored in the flooded No 2 hold were unfortuately drowned.