MHG50615 - Busy Bee: Burnside, Thurso Bay, Pentland Firth

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Type and Period (2)

  • WRECK (Undated)
  • MOTOR BOAT (Unknown date)

Protected Status

  • None recorded

Full Description

NMRS Report: (08/05/2007 16:41:19)
ND16NW 8063 c. 10 69
N58 36 W3 33

NLO: Thurso [name: ND 115 687]
Scrabster [name: ND 102 702].
Thurso Bay [name centred ND 115 699]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Possibly on map sheet ND17SW.

(Classified as motor boat: date of loss cited as 4 January 1922). Busy Bee: this vessel was wrecked at Burnside, Thurso.
Registration: Thurso.
(Location of loss cited as N58 36.5 W3 32.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The name Burnside apparently denotes the area around Scrabster Castle [ND16NW 3: ND 1068 6915].
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 May 2007.



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Location

Grid reference Centred ND 10 69 (20m by 20m) (2 map features)
Map sheet ND16NW
Geographical Area CAITHNESS

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