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MHG46430 - Craigie: Scrabster Harbour, Thurso Bay, Pentland Firth

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NMRS Report: (08/05/2007 17:14:55)
ND17SW 8024 c. 101 702
N58 37 W3 32

NLO: Thurso [name: ND 115 687]
Scrabster [name: ND 102 702].
Thurso Bay [name centred ND 115 699]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Possibly on map sheet ND16NW.

26 July 1852, CRAIGIE, of Wick, brig, lime, place - Scrabster Pier. Burnt out and rendered a total wreck. Shipping and Mercantile Gazette 2 August 1852.
Source: PP Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of the UK 1852 (1852-53 (983) LXI.1)

Wick, 29th July. The CRAIGIE (brig), of this port, laden with lime, was burnt at Scrabster Pier last week, and rendered a total wreck.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 11,968, London, Saturday July 31 1852

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 354).

(Classified as brig with cargo of lime: date of loss cited as 26 July 1852). Craigie: this vessel stranded at Scrabster pier, a total wreck burnt to the waterline. Registration: Wick. (Built 1818: 136 tons burthern?)
(Location of loss cited as N58 36.67 W3 32.75).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Scrabster harbour (ND17SW 5) is at ND 102 703.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 June 2005.

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Grid reference	Centred ND 101 701 (20m by 20m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	ND17SW

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