MHG50364 - Helena: Nairn, Moray Firth

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Type and Period (2)

  • WRECK (Undated)
  • BRIG (Unknown date)

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  • None recorded

Full Description

NMRS Report: (22/02/2007 12:33:34)
NH85NE 8008 unlocated

NLO: Nairn [name: NH 885 567].

Possibly on map sheets NH85NW, NH95NW or NH96SW.

Nairn, 12th Dec. The HELENA (brig), of Belfast, Morrison, from Liverpool to Dundee, with salt, got on shore yesterday about five miles hence, but may get off if the weather prove favourable.
Source: Additional Intelligence, LL, No. 14,885, London, Thursday, December [1861].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10176).

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably confirming her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 February 2007.



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