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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 675887

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/675887

NC27NE 8021 unlocated

NLO: Cape Wrath [name: ND 256 750]

Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81]

Lochinver [name: NC 093 225].

Thurso, 7th Dec. 'The ANN WORTHINGTON, Gunn, from Limerick to Stockton, was totally wrecked 2nd inst., near Cape Wrath.'

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 7728, London, Wednesday December 12 1838

Greenock, 25th May. 'The ANN WORTHINGTON, Gunn, from Limerick to Stockton, which sunk near Lochinvar [Lochinver] in December, has been raised and brought in here to repair.'

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 7869, London, Tuesday May 28 1839.

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7353).

(Classified as brig: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 2 December 1838). Ann Worthington: this vessel was wrecked at Cape Wrath. Capt. Gunn.

Registration: Rothesay. Built 1820. 114 tons burthern.

(Location of loss cited as N58 38.0 W5 0.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary. The more precise location of wreck that is cited by Whittaker is not accepted. The classification cited by Whittaker remains unverified, but is accepted.

It remains unclear whether the vessel that was wrecked near Cape Wrath and that which sank near Lochinver were the same.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 September 2005.

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