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MHG47464 - Binn: Castlehill, Dunnet Bay, Pentland Firth

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NMRS Report: (10/05/2007 13:28:00)
ND16NE 8010 c. 196 686
N58 35.9 W3 23

NLO: Castlehill [name: ND 196 686]
Dunnet Bay [name centred ND 198 704]
Wick [name: ND 362 508]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Castletown, Wick, 8th Mar., the BINN (smack), of this port, from Castlehill to Portsoy, with pavement, stranded in going out of Castlehill, 5th Mar.: crew, sails, rigging, &c., saved: the vessel fills with the tide, and is likely to become a wreck.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,376, London, Thursday March 13 1873.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3951).

(Classified as wooden smack, with cargo of pavement: date of loss cited as 5 March 1873). This vessel stranded at Castlehill, Wick and was expected to become a wreck.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 May 2007.

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Grid reference	Centred ND 198 688 (73m by 73m) (3 map features)
Map sheet	ND16NE

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