MHG46677 - Sophia: Cape Wrath, Atlantic
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Type and Period (2)
- WRECK (Undated)
- SCHOONER (Unknown date)
Protected Status
- None recorded
Full Description
NMRS Report: (14/01/2005)
NC27NE 8012 unlocated
NLO: Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
16 August 1884, SOPHIA, 36 yrs old, registered at Carnarvon, wooden schooner, 63 tons, 3 crew, Jones Master, Owner D. Roberts, Portmadoc, departed Thurso for Greenock carrying pavement. Wind SSE 6. Foundered off Cape Wrath, Sutherlandshire.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1884-85 (1887 [C.5094] LXXIV.247).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1821).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of pavement: date of loss cited as 16 August 1884). This vessel foundered off Cape Wrath.
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary, being derived from the location cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 December 2003.
I G Whittaker 1998.
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- https://canmore.org.uk/site/252778 (View RCAHMS Canmore entry for this site)
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