MHG46986 - Unknown: Pentland Firth

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Type and Period (2)

  • WRECK (Undated)
  • LUGGER (Unknown date)

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  • None recorded

Full Description

NMRS Report: (27/04/2007 15:42:43)
ND17SW 8026 unlocated

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

17th March 1860, UNKNOWN, fishing boat, lugger, 10 tons, 8 crew, in ballast, capsized, partial loss, 8 lives lost, unknown location, supposed near Thurso.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1860 (1861 [2811] LVIII.335).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2050).

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 March 2004.



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