Print

MHG47805 - Friends: Dunnet Bay, Pentland Firth

Summary

No summary available.

Type and Period (2)

Protected Status

Full Description

NMRS Report: (09/05/2007 11:18:42)
ND26NW 8011 c. 21 69
N58 36 W3 22

NLO: Dunnet Bay [name centred ND 198 704]
Dunnet Head [name: ND 203 768]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Possibly on map sheets ND16NE, ND17SE or ND27SW.

The FRIENDS, Dawson, of Workington, from Memel to Liverpool, was stranded in Dunnet Bay, Caithness, 8th inst., but expected to be got off.
Source: The Marine List, LL, London, Friday October 21 1814.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5805).

(No classification or cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 8 October 1814). Friends (Friend?): this vessel stranded in Dunnet Bay. Expected all gone. Capt. Dawson. Registration: Workington.
(Location of loss cited as N58 36.0 W3 22.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 November 2004.

Sources/Archives (1)

Map

Location

Grid reference	Centred ND 20 69 (20m by 20m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	ND26NW

Finds (0)

Related Monuments/Buildings (0)

Related Investigations/Events (0)

External Links (1)