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MHG45987 - Martha And Sophia: Loch Gairloch

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NMRS Report: (10/02/2005)
NG77NE 8001 unlocated

Formerly entered as NS28SE 8012 and NG77SE 8005 (both entries unlocated).

NLO: Loch Gairloch [name centred NG 77 76]
Ullapool [name: NH 125 942].

Possibly on map sheets NG77NW, NG77SW or NG77SE.

The MARTHA AND SOPHIA, Paynter, from Ullapool in Scotland, to Bristol, is lost near Garloch [Gaireloch/Gareloch], and all the crew and passengers, except two, drowned.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 4117, London, Tuesday January 13 1807.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5567).

(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as January 1807). Martha & Sophia: this vessel was lost near Garloch (Gairloch?). Capt. Payater.
(Location of loss cited as N57 45 W5 45).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary. Whittaker places the loss near Gairloch, Wester Ross; the cited route of the vessel (from Ullapool) supports this attribution.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 July 2002 and 10 February 2005.

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Grid reference	Centred NG 6999 7000 (20m by 20m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NG67SE

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