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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 836738
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/836738
NC03SW 8001 c. 044 331
N58 14.6 W5 20
NLO: Culkein Bay [name: NC 044 331]
Culkein [name: NC 039 330].
December, 1884, CZAR, 24 yrs old, Inverness registered, wooden smack, 25 tons, no-one on board, Owner and Master J. Macrae, Culkein, by Stoer, Sutherlandshire. Moored at Culkein in ballast. Wind F9. Foundered at Culkein, Sutherlandshire.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1884-85 (1887 [C.5094] LXXIV.247).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1824).
(Classified as wooden smack, in ballast: date of loss cited as December 1884). Czar: this vessel foundered at anchor at Culkien [Culkein], Sutherland.
Registration: Inverness. Built 1872. 25grt. Length: 14m. Beam: 4m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 14.67 W5 20.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative, being derived from the unverified location that is cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 December 2003.
