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.