Archaeology Notes

Event ID 764745

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH66NE 8002 6771 6743

N57 40.65 W4 13.1167

NLO: Cromarty Firth [name centred NH 69 67].

Formerly entered as NH66NE 8596

Evidence = Echo sounder

Horizontal Datum = OGB

General water depth = 5

Surveying Details

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3 February 1976. There is a suspected crashed Sunderland Flying Boat at 57 40 39N, 004 13 07W. The site was close echosounded and gave a least depth of 2.7 metres.

Report by HMS EGERIA, 19 January 1976.

21 October 1986. The site was not found.

Report by Andrews Hydrographics Ltd.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

The Royal Air Force seaplane and flying boat base on the Cromarty Forth (NH66NE 52.00: RAF Alness) was centred around NH 6512 6790.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 June 2011.