A collection of rare whiskies from the SS Wallachia, which sank in 1895, are set to go under the hammer at McTear’s Auctioneers in Glasgow on April 14. The collection includes seven bottles and four half bottles of whisky from brands like Robert Brown’s Four Crowns blend and Charles Wilkinson, and two bottles of McEwan’s Export Beer. It is expected to fetch between 3,000 and 5,000 pounds — roughly $3,700 to $6,100.
On September 29, 1895, the SS Wallachia — departed from Glasgow carrying whisky, beer, coal, clothing, and other goods. The intended destination was the West Indies. But the weather was foggy, progressively getting worse, and as the ship headed down the Firth of Clyde, it collided with a Norwegian ship, sinking within 25 minutes. The shipwreck lay undisturbed roughly 30 meters below the surface until 1977 when a group of divers from the Girvan Sub-Aqua Club discovered the steamship while investigating the cause of a fisherman’s entangled nets.
