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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 845932

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/845932

NH76NE 8012 c. 78 67

N57 41 W4 3

NLO: Cromarty [name: NH 786 677]

Cromarty Firth [name centred NH 69 67].

Cromarty, 6th Feb. The JOHN & MARY (smack), of Peterhead, Shewan, broke from her anchors and drove on the beach.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,306, London, Thursday February 9 1860.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9813).

(Classified as smack: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 6 February 1860). John & Mary: this vessel stranded on a beach near Cromarty.

Registration: Peterhead. Built 1829. 40 tons burthern. Length: 13m. Beam: 4m.

(location of loss cited as N57 41.00 W4 1.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

It remains uncertain whether or not this vessel was successfully recovered.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 October 2005.

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