MHG47876 - Unknown: Dunbeath, North Sea

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Type and Period (2)

  • WRECK (Undated)
  • CRAFT (Unknown date)

Protected Status

  • None recorded

Full Description

NMRS Report: (23/12/2004)
ND12NE 8010 c. 15 28
N58 14 W3 27

Possibly on map sheet ND13SE.

NLO: Dunbeath Bay [name centred ND 166 293]
Dunbeath Castle [name: ND 159 282].

Wick, Jan. 13, during the gale two fishing boats were lost. One, which belonged to Occumster, came ashore at Dunbeath, the other was seen waterlogged, with no one on board.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,817, London, Saturday January 15 [1881].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5077).

The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), and the location cited is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 December 2004.



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Map

Location

Grid reference Centred ND 14 27 (20m by 20m) (2 map features)
Map sheet ND12NW
Geographical Area CAITHNESS

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