MHG50541 - Louisa: Stroma, Pentland Firth

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Type and Period (2)

  • WRECK (Undated)
  • SCHOONER (Unknown date)

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  • None recorded

Full Description

NMRS Report: (27/04/2007 11:22:37)
ND37NE 8046 c. 35 76
N58 40 W3 7

NLO: Island of Stroma [name: ND 35 77]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Possibly on map sheet ND37NW.

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 23 December 1876). Louisa: this vessel stranded on the SE side of Stroma. Capt. Saadman. All gone, but condemned at Kirkwall.
Registration: Barth. Built 1861. 117 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N58 40.25 W3 6.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 April 2007.



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Map

Location

Grid reference Centred ND 34 75 (20m by 20m) (2 map features)
Map sheet ND37NW

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