Archaeology Notes

Event ID 847050

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NLO: Brora [name: NC 909 040].

The CONVEYANCE, Ewing, from Londonderry to the East coast of Sutherland, was lost 16th instant off Brora. The crew and materials saved.'

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6746, London, Tuesday May 29 1832.

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7011).

(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 16 May 1832). Conveyance: this vessel was lost off Brora. Capt. Ewing.

Registration: Greenock. Built 1813. 37 tons burthern. Length: 14m. Beam: 4m.

(Location of loss cited as N58 1.00 W3 50.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.

The vessel apparently foundered, rather than stranded.

The classification cited by Whittaker remains unverified, but is accepted.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 June 2005.