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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 814919
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/814919
NC27NE 8011 c. 25 75
N58 38 W5 1
NLO: Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Possibly on map sheet NC27SE.
Location formerly entered as NC c. 256 750 [N58 37.7 W5 0.3].
22 October 1897 INDUSTRY, 26 years, of Grimsby, wood dandy, 62 ton, 6 men, master and owner J. Jones, Grimsby. Grimsby to fishing. Ballast. Calm. Stag Rocks near Cape Wrath, Sutherlandshire.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1897-98 (1899 [C.9384] LXXXVII.409).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 802).
(Classified as wooden dandy, in ballast: date of loss cited as 22 October 1897). Industry: this vessel stranded on Stag Rock, near Cape Wrath. Capt. Jones.
Registration: Grimsby. Built 1871. 62 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N57 38.0 W5 0.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Stag Rock or Rocks are not noted as such on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 September 2002.
