Archaeology Notes

Event ID 823299

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH87NE 8002 c. 864 754

N57 45.2 W3 54.5

NLO: Balintore [name: NH 866 756]

Cromarty Firth [name centred NH 69 67]

Shandwick Bay [name centred NH 864 750].

(Classified as wooden, steam drifter, in ballast: date of loss cited as 8 May 1908). Alpha: this vessel stranded on Three Kings Rock, Cromarty, then stranded at the mouth [entrance] of Balintore harbour. [Capt.] Ritchie.

Registration: Great Yarmouth. Built 1879. 3 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N57 45.25 W3 54.50).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Balintore harbour (NH87NE 17) is at NH 8640 7549.

Three Kings Rock is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 August 2005.