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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 840884
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/840884
NB98NE 8002 unlocated
NLO: Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
(Classified as steel tanker, in ballast: date of loss cited as 6 March 1918). Oilfield: this vessel was torpedoed 125 miles NW from Cape Wrath. Also reported beached, refloated and wrecked?
Built 1896. 4000grt. Length: 105m. Beam: 14m..
(Location of loss cited as N58 42.65 W5 27.48).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location that is cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 31 October 2008.
