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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 845928
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/845928
NH85NW 8005 c. 80 58
N57 36 W4 0
Possibly on map sheet NH75NE.
NLO: Whiteness Head [name: NH 803 587].
Nairn, 1st Nov. The COMET (sloop), of Alloa, Crocket, from Cromarty to Peterhead in ballast, went ashore to the east of Whiteness Head Buoy, 1st Nov., and remains.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,225, London, Monday November 7 1859.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9751).
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), possibly suggesting her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 September 2005.
