MHG49092 - Unknown: Cape Wrath, Atlantic

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Type and Period (2)

  • WRECK (Undated)
  • SCHOONER (Unknown date)

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  • None recorded

Full Description

NMRS Report: (17/11/2005)
NC27NE 8023 unlocated

NLO: Cape Wrath [name: ND 256 750]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

See also NC26NW 8005.

Cape Wrath, 24th Oct. `Another schooner, supposed to be laden with hemp and tallow, has come on shore bottom up: crew drowned.¿
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 9872, London, Monday November 3 1845.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8015).

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary; it remains unclear whether Cape Wrath was the location of loss ort the place of report.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), possibly suggesting her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 November 2005.



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