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MHG46498 - Rapture: Loch Eriboll, Atlantic

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NMRS Report: (14/01/2005)
NC45NE 8001 c. 40 55
N58 27 W4 45

NLO: Loch Eriboll [name centred NC 44 60]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

12 March 1890. RAPTURE. 6 years. Not reg. Wood lugger. 25 ton. 9 men. Master and owner G. Smith, Portessie, Banffshire. Buckie to fishing. Ballast. 7 dead. Wind WSW9. At the head of Loch Eriboll, Sutherlandshire.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1889-90 (1890-91 [C.6468] LXXVI.485).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1494).

(Classifiead as wooden lugger, in ballast: registration number cited as BF 1263 and date of loss as 12 March 1890). This vessel foundered at the head of Loch Eriboll.
I G Whittaker 1998.

Possibly on map sheets NC45NW, NC45SW or NC45SE: the map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. A location around NC 40 55 may be suggested for this loss.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 20 November 2003.

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Grid reference	Centred NC 39 55 (20m by 20m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC35NE

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