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MHG37810 - LEONARD MCKENZIE: MORAY FIRTH

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NJ09SE 8001 unlocated

NLO: Tarbat Ness [name: NH 949 878].

Formerly entered as NJ07SE 8001 (unlocated).

24 May 1881, LEONARD MCKENZIE, 19 yrs old, of Banff, wooden schooner, 56 tons, 4 crew, Master R. Millar, Owner G. Thomson, Port Gordon, Banff, departed Sunderland for Helmsdale, carrying coal, wind variable 1, foundered, total loss, 7 miles E. by N. of Tarbet [Tarbat] Ness Lighthouse, Ross.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1880-81 (1882 [C.3177] LXIII.251).

Helmsdale, May 24, 10.6 a.m., LEONARD MCKENZIE, of Port Gordon [Portgordon], Millar (coal laden), sank at sea, 15 miles south by west of Helmsdale, today at 1.30 a.m.: crew landed here at 8.30 a.m.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,927, London, Wednesday May 25 1881.

Wick, May 25, 2.30 p.m., LEONARD MCKENZIE schooner, from Sunderland for Helmsdale (coal), sank seven miles off Tarbetness [Tarbat Ness]: crew landed yesterday at [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3035).

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 24 May 1881). Leonard McKenzie: this vessel foundered 7 miles ExN of Tarbet [Tarbat] Ness Light[house]. Capt. Miller.
Registration: Banff. Built 1862. 62grt. Length: 22m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 54.00 W3 35.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. Tarbat Ness lighthouse (NH98NW 11.00) is at NH 9469 8755.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 20 February 2002.

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Grid reference	Centred NJ 0600 9100 (38m by 38m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NJ09SE

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