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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 839548
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/839548
NC27NE 8014 unlocated
NLO: Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Not to be confused with NC27NE 8006.
The WILLIAM, of and from Gothenburg, Castleton, bound to Alicante, was lost near Cape Wrath 7 inst. Crew saved. Cargo expected to be saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, London, January 8 1809.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6148).
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 June 2004.
