Archaeology Notes

Event ID 848778

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC36NE 8002 c. 38 69

N58 35 W4 47

NLO: Scrabster [name: ND 102 702]

Balnakiel Bay [name centred NC 382 695]

Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750]

Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81]

Kyle of Durness [name centred NC 37 65].

Possibly on map sheet NC37SE.

Thurso, 18th Feb., the DALKEITH (schr.), of Inverness, Martin, bound to Stornoway, with coal, has become a total wreck in Balnakiel bay, on the West coast. The vessel lay in Scrabter [Scrabster] roads about three months, and after putting to sea sprung a leak. When run ashore she had six feet of water in her hold, and was quite unmanageable: crew saved.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,670, London, Saturday February 21 1874.

See record for the ANTELOPE.

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4064).

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 18 February 1874). Dalkeith: this vessel was wrecked in Balnakiel Bay. Capt. Martin. (Scrabster Roads?).

Registration: Inverness. Built 1835. 87grt. Length: 21m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N58 35.0 W34 46.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. A location of loss in Balnakiel Bay is preferred over one in Scrabster Roads.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 January 2005.