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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 673016
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/673016
NC45NW 8008 unlocated
NLO: Loch Eriboll [name centred NC 44 60]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Possibly on map sheets NC45NW, NC45NE, NC45SW, NC45SE, or NC46SW.
Loch Erribol, Sept. 1. 'The TRY, Dorkin, from Wick to Newry, struck on a sunken rock yesterday, in the middle of the Loch, and immediately went down. Crew saved.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 7193, London, Friday September 9 1836.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7179).
(Classified as brig: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 31 August 1836). Try: this vessel hit [a] rock and sank in the middle of Loch Eriboll. Capt. Dorkin.
Registration: Yarmouth. Built 1821. 87 tons burthern.
(Location of loss cited as N58 30.0 W4 40.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The reference to 'a sunken rock... in the middle of the Loch' may refer to any of several such obstructions.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 August 2005.
