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MHG46490 - Charlotte: North Sea

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NMRS Report: (03/11/2003)
ND47SE 8003 unlocated

NLO: Noss Head [name: ND 389 550]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81]
Pentland Skerries [name centred ND 470 775].

Missing. CHARLOTTE. 8 years. Not reg. Wood lugger. 25 ton. 10 men. Master and owner D. Gunn, Wick. Wick to fishing. Ballast. 10 dead. Not heard of since sailing on 13 February 1893. Supposed lost between Noss Head and the Pentland Skerries.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1892-93 (1894 [C.7324] LXXVI.505).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1320).

(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: regustration number cited as WK 327 and date of loss as February 1893). This vessel left Wick for fishing on 13 February 1893, and is presumed lost off Noss Head.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary and the loss may have occurred within the quasi-administrative area of Maritime - Orkney.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 November 2003.

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