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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 841162
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/841162
NH98NW 8007 c. 94 87
N57 52 W3 47
NLO: Tarbat Ness [name: NH 949 878]
Portmahomack [name: NH 915 843]
Dornoch Firth [name centred NH 87 89].
Possibly on map sheet NH98SW.
2 January 1880, MARY, 40 yrs old, of Inverness, wooden schooner, 80 tons, 4 crew, Master and Owner D. Paterson, Inverness, departed Portmahomack for Cromarty, carrying barley, wind NW10, stranded, total loss, near Portmahomack, Co. Ross.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1879-80 (1881 [C.2906] LXXXII.889).
Lossiemouth, Jan. 3, 12.15 p.m., MARY schooner, of Inverness, Paterson, from Portmahomack for West Coast (barley), stranded near Tarbetness [Tarbat Ness] Lighthouse last night, and remains.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,496, London, Monday January 5 1880.
Lossiemouth, Jan. 3, 7.50 p.m., MARY, of Inverness, Port Mahomack [Portmahomack] for Fort William (barley), reported this morning stranded near Tarbetness [Tarbat Ness] Lighthouse is now full of water, and being dismantled.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,496, London, Monday January 5 1880.
Inverness, Jan. 5, 11.25 a.m., MARY schooner, of Inverness (barley), is ashore at Portmahomack, and likely to become a total wreck: cargo all covered with [Report received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2984).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of barley: date of loss cited as 2 January 1880). Mary: this vessel stranded near Portmahomack. Capt. Paterson.
Registration: Inverness. Built 1840. 86grt. Length: 20m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 50.25 W3 50.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. It remains unclear whether this vessel stranded on the W side of the peninsula (within the Dornoch Firth) or on the E side (within the Inner Moray Firth).
Tarbat Ness lighthouse (NH98NW 11.00) is at NH 9469 8755.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 August 2005.
