MHG47425 - Essex: Clachnaharry, Beauly Firth

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Type and Period (2)

  • WRECK (Undated)
  • BARQUE (Unknown date)

Protected Status

  • None recorded

Full Description

NMRS Report: (11/02/2005)
NH64NW 8001 c. 64 46
N57 29 W4 16

Possibly on map sheet NH64NE.

NLO: Inverness [name: NH 665 455].

Inverness, 1 January, the ESSEX (barque), when lightening outside the [Caledonian] canal, this morning, dragged her anchor and grounded astern: she lies stern on, three feet aground, low water, but is likely to get off on the afternoon's tide.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, Lloyd's List and Commercial Daily Chronicle, No. 18,005, London, Wednesday January 3 1872.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3660).

The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably on account of her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 20 July 2004.



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Location

Grid reference NH 64 46 (point)
Map sheet NH64NW
Geographical Area INVERNESS

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