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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 837116

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/837116

NC66SW 8007 c. 60 63

N58 32 W4 24

NLO: Rabbit Islands [name centred NC 605 635]

Tongue Bay [name centred NC 606 615]

Kyle of Tongue [name centred NC 58 58]

Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750]

Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Formerly entered as NC56SE 8013 at cited location NC c. 587 629 [N58 31.9 W4 25.6].

Possibly on map sheet NC56SE.

(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 13 April 1854). Juno: this vessel was wrecked on Rabbit Island [Islands]. Is there one near Tongue?

Registration: Hull.

(Location of loss cited as N58 32.33 W4 23.0).

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), 26 June 2008.

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