MHG61481 - Wooden fishing boat - Loch Fleet

Summary

Remains of a wooden fishing boat, Loch Fleet

Type and Period (1)

  • WRECK (19th Century to 20th Century - 1801 AD to 2000 AD)

Protected Status

  • None recorded

Full Description

Report in Northern Times May 12th 1995.
"Embo fishing fleet, after the war (1914-18) due to so many not returning and the migration of the herring that the boats constituting the fleet were taken round to loch Fleet and burned?". Memory of Richard Easson, Tain

As part of the Scotland’s Coastal Heritage at Risk Project (SCHARP) in 2014, a survey was carried out of a boat graveyard at Loch Fleet in partnership with the North of Scotland Archaeological Society (NoSAS) and the Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS).

Vessel B. Remains of a wooden fishing boat. Few visible elements comprise stern post, futtocks, some detached, some possibly in situ (one midships frame identified as beech), and small piece of planking. Stern post (oak) survives standing to 0.7m above the level of the foreshore at a raked angle. Too few frames survive in situ to gauge the frame spacing. <1>

NGR adjusted based on 2009 aerial photographs. <2>

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Map

Location

Grid reference Centred NH 7971 9499 (12m by 12m) (2 map features)
Map sheet NH79SE
Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish DORNOCH

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