Archaeology Notes

Event ID 701374

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND37SE 8028 c. 389 738

N58 38.9 W3 3.2

NLO: Ness of Duncansby [name: ND 389 738]

Duncansby Head [name: ND 405 733]

Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Formerly also entered as ND37SE 8038 at cited location ND c. 39 70 [N58 37 W3 3].

Possibly on map sheets or ND47SW.

Dunnet-by-Thurso, 16th Aug., 7.18 p.m., the HENRY (schr.), of Llanelly, reported ashore today, is full of water, and likely to become a total wreck.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,065, London, Saturday August 17 1878.

Stromness, 19th Aug., 8.10 a.m., the HENRY ROBINSON, of and for Llanelly, from Sundswall, with wood, which stranded at Duncan's bay [Duncansby], on the 15th, has been got off and brought here waterlogged, at an expense of £550 as per agreement: deck cargo and materials were landed and remain at Duncan's bay [Duncansby]: keel and bilge believed to be much damaged.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,067, London, Tuesday August 20 1878.

John o'Groats, Conisbay [Canisbay], [by tel. from Wick dated 19th Aug., 9.55 p.m.], the schooner HENRY, of Llanelly, ashore at Ness of Duncan's bay [Duncansby], was taken off by a steam tug, yesterday, and proceeded to Stromness. [See Stromness telegram in yesterday's List erroneously reporting the vessel as the HENRY [Report received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4748).

(Classified as brigantine, with cargo of timber: date of loss cited as 15 August 1878). Henry: this vessel stranded at Duncansby.

(Location of loss cited as N58 39.0 W3 2.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location and map sheet assigned to this record are essentially tentative. The stranding may have occurred on map sheets or ND47SW.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 April 2007.