Archaeology Notes

Event ID 846807

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/846807

NH87NE 8003 c. 86 75

N57 45 W3 55

NLO: Portmahomack [name: NH 915 843]

Balintore [name: NH 866 756]

Cromarty Firth [name centred NH 69 67]

Shandwick Bay [name centred NH 864 750].

Possibly on map sheet NH87SE.

Lossiemouth, 10th Jan. The TOM & MARY, of Jersey, with lead and oranges, was totally wrecked near Port Mahomac [Portmahomack], Tain [Dornoch] Firth, last night: part of cargo saved.

Source: LL, No. 16,458, London, Friday, January 11 1867.

Cromarty, 10th Jan. The TOM & MARY, of Jersey, wrecked yesterday at Ballintore [Ballintore], was bound from Seville to Leith: crew saved: materials secured.

Source: LL, No. 16,463, London, Thursday, January 17 1867.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11173).

(Classified as schooner, with cargo of lead and oranges: date of loss cited as 9 January 1867). Tom & Mary: this vessel was wrecked at Ballintore [Balintore]. Capt. Guille.

Registration: Jersey. 59 tons register.

(Location of loss cited as N57 50.00 W3 45.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. This vessel may have stranded within the area of map sheet NH87SE.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 August 2005.