Archaeology Notes

Event ID 849578

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC46SE 8013 unlocated

NLO: Loch Eriboll [name centred NC 44 60]

Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

See also NC46SE 8012 and NC46SE 8014.

Possibly on map sheets NC45NW, NC45NE, NC45SW, NC45SE, or NC46SW.

Wick, 23rd Jan. [1846]. 'The following vessels were driven on shore at Loch Erribol 8th inst., during a violent gale: the WILLIAMS, Nairn, of Arbroath, loaded for the Clyde: crew saved: UNITY, from Lerwick to Liverpool: crew saved: and the MARGARET & ISABELLA, Lowrey, from Portmahomack to Ireland: crew saved.' [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8061).

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.

The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 May 2004.