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Loss
Date 11 January 1834
Event ID 620196
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/620196
Leith, 17th Jan. 'The OAK, Annal, from this port to Inverness, was wrecked 11th inst., near Portmahomock [Portmahomack].'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6918, London, Tuesday January 21 1834.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6912).
(Classified as smack: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 11 January 1834). Oak: this vessel was wrecked in the bay at Portmahomack. Capt. Annal.
Registration: Inverness. Built 1826. 72 tons burthern. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 50.25 W3 50.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.