Archaeology Notes

Event ID 837693

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC25NW 8007 c. 20 55

N58 27 W5 5

NLO: Loch Inchard [name centred NC 23 55]

Rubh a' Mhill Bhain [name: NC 210 553]

Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750].

Possibly on map sheet NC15NE.

25 December 1874, AGNES CAMPBELL, 20yrs old, of Perth, wooden schooner, 70 tons, 4 crew, Master J. McLeod, Owner J. Mackie, departed Whitehaven for Thurso, carrying coal, wind W1, stranded, Moulbain [Rubh a' Mhill Bhain], S. side Loch Inchard.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1874 - 75 (1875 [C.1341] LXX.501).

Wick, 29th Dec., the AGNES CAMPBELL (schr.), of Perth, McLeod, from Whitehaven to Thurso, with coal, struck on a rock in turning out of Loch Inchart, 25th Dec., and was run ashore making five feet of water per hour: crew saved.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,944, London, Saturday January 9 1875.

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2521).

(Classified as schooner: no cargo specified but date of loss cited as 26 December 1874). Agnes Campbell: this vessel was wrecked at Loch Inchard and sold as a wreck. Capt. Laren.

Registration: Perth. Built 1854. 70 tons burthern. Length: 19m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N58 27.0 W5 5.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 April 2004.