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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 830173
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/830173
NH89SE 8004 c. 81 92
N57 54 W4 0
NLO: Embo [name: NH 818 928]
Dornoch [name: NH 798 895].
Wick, 19th Sept. 'The BYRON, Smith, from Shields to Inverness, was driven on shore near Dornoch 15th instant, and soon after went to pieces; crew (except the mate) drowned.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 7970, London, Monday September 23 1839.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7482).
(Classified as schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 15 September 1839). Byron: this vessel was wrecked at Embo. Capt. Smith.
Registration: Newcastle.
(Location of loss cited as N57 54.50 W3 59.00).
I G Whitaker 1998.
The location assigned to this loss is essentially tentative. The vessel evidently stranded.
The classification, cargo and location of loss cited by Whittaker remain unverified, but are accepted.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 September 2005.
