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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 837171
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/837171
NC87NE 8004 unlocated
NLO: Portskerra [name: NC 877 657]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Possibly on map sheet NC87SE.
7th July 1884, MARGARET, age unknown, not registered, wooden lugger, 12 tons, 5 crew. Master and Owner J. Simpson, Thurso. Departed Scrabster for fishing, in ballast. Collided with schooner HARVEST KING of Runcorn. Wind SE5, about 7 miles off Port Skerray [Portskerra], Caithness-shire.
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. 1980).
(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: date of loss cited as 7 July 1884). Margaret: this vessel was in collision and sank about 7 miles off Port Skerray [Portskerra], (Harvest King). Capt. Simpson.
Not registered. 12 tons unspecified.
(location of loss cited as N58 41.0 W3 55.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 January 2004.
